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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: OS923 on April 17, 2019, 01:18:45 AM

Title: PPC version of SimpleText
Post by: OS923 on April 17, 2019, 01:18:45 AM

The Apple sample code contains the source code of SimpleText 1.4. This can build a PPC version of SimpleText. I tried this and it works.

Title: Re: PPC version of SimpleText
Post by: OS923 on June 06, 2019, 02:26:27 AM

There's also a SimpleText Pro. It supports text of more than 32K. This was an abandoned project by Marco Piovanelli and Alessandro Levi Montalcini, but I tried it for some time and I wouldn't go back to SimpleText.

http://www.merzwaren.com/snippets/

Title: Re: PPC version of SimpleText
Post by: Greystash on June 06, 2019, 02:39:34 PM

Good find!

Title: Re: PPC version of SimpleText
Post by: IIO on June 06, 2019, 02:51:51 PM

i´ve always preferred iText over simpletext pro - it has a little bug where it sometimes scrambles colors when you control documents from dreamweaver while they are also open in iText - but its main advantage is that it exists for OSX, too.

Title: Re: PPC version of SimpleText
Post by: teroyk on August 28, 2020, 05:56:08 AM

Quote from: OS923 on April 17, 2019, 01:18:45 AM

The Apple sample code contains the source code of SimpleText 1.4. This can build a PPC version of SimpleText. I tried this and it works.

If you want going step more for MacOS 9 you can start update textedit calls to unicode:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011220113557/http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/TextIntlSvcs/MultilingualTextEditor/multilingualtexteditor.html