TextEditor.mcc is a multiline string gadget for Amiga systems which offers most of the common features you can find in a typical text editor, but embedded in a MUI custom class. It is used by a wide range of well-known MUI based applications like YAM or SimpleMail as the main text editing gadget.
TextEditor.mcc is available for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS and AROS.
Its main features are:
- Text can be colored (limited syntax highlighting)
- WYSIWYG for bold, italic and underline soft styles
- Multi-level undo & redo
- Lines with different alignments (left, right, centered)
- Ability to insert thick or thin separators with an optional title
- Easy marking either using the mouse or keyboard
- Full clipboard support, offering very fast cut & paste routines
- Light text highlighting for e-mail based on an opening ">" character
- Support for external spellcheckers, including type'n'spell and word guessing
- Configurable keys, colors, cursor types, blink speed, and much more
- Ability to have a bitmap as a background
- Support for proportional fonts with floating word wrap, as well as antialiased fonts
- Pixel smooth scrolling
- Possibility to attach a horizontal- and vertical scroll bar
- AREXX interface for scripted programming
All releases up to the most current ones can be downloaded from our central releases management.
To report bugs use the bug/issue tracker.
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Extract the archive to a temporary directory.
> cd RAM: > lha x MCC_TextEditor.lha
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Go to the
MCC_TextEditor/Libs/MUI/<OS>
directory where<OS>
is the directory matching the operating system you want to install TexiEditor.mcc for:> cd MCC_TextEditor/Libs/MUI/AmigaOS4
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copy all
#?.mcc
and#?.mcp
files found in that<OS>
directory to the globalMUI:Libs/mui/
directory on your system partition:> copy #?.mcc MUI:Libs/mui/ > copy #?.mcp MUI:Libs/mui/
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reboot and enjoy the new version ;)
TextEditor.mcc was originally written in 1997 and is Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by Allan Odgaard. As of version 15.10, released in April 2005, the gadget is maintained and Copyright (C) 2005-2019 TextEditor.mcc Open Source Team.
TextEditor is distributed and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1. See COPYING for more detailed information.
- Allan Odgaard
- Alper Sönmez
- Gianfranco Gignina
- Ilkka Lehtoranta
- Jens Maus
- Nicolas Rybkin
- Sebastian Bauer
- Thore Böckelmann