VC (win32) or WPF for developing a text editor

views:

147

answers:

VC (win32) or WPF for developing a text editor

I have this confusion to develop this application in Win32 or WPF (.NET). This application primarily consists of a text editor (think of similar to the one in MS OneNote) with lot of customized requirements compared to a general text editor.

I was thinking to use VC to work on this as lots of custom drawing is required. What do you guys suggest? Is WPF is a best deal for this sort of applications? Or Win32 is better to go?

If you want to use a commercial WPF Text Editor you can check out one from ActiPro: http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/SyntaxEditor/Default.aspx

Jalfp 2009-09-16 14:12:07

Always better to buy code than to write it.

Will 2009-09-16 14:31:47

The user is asking about writing the application in WPF, not using it to edit C#/XAML.

emddudley 2010-03-25 17:23:26

+1 A:

If you want to write any sort of GUI app on Windows, I would recommend not using C++. .NET is much, much better for creating a GUI than all of the various C++ GUI libraries that are on Windows. I could see using WPF for writing an app like OneNote working out fairly well, since WPF is very easily extensible.

Andy 2009-09-16 18:58:58

I am not sure whether WPF supports or has apis/libs to develop an editor like the one in OneNote without having make win32 calls?

Vadi 2009-09-17 06:22:35

The nice thing about WPF is that if it doesn't have a feature built in, it's very easy to add it yourself. IMO it's much easier to make a complex and pretty UI in WPF than in Win32. Maybe do some small test projects in WPF to see if it can do what you need to do?

Andy 2009-09-17 12:24:41

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

VC (win32) or WPF for developing a text editor

related questions