Rich Text Edit Control – Know All About The Feature-rich Software

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A text editor is a rich software application that helps to edit text. Text editors can offer advanced capabilities or provide basic functionality.

HTML text editor cut the amount of time and effort it takes for a user to develop a web page. An HTML text editor is also referred to as an ‘advanced rich text editor.’ The more advanced editors are said as WYSIWYG. In other words, you can see how the web page will look live on a web browser. Although, a text editor can streamline the development process; however, the more advanced the editor is, the easier it.
You can find a ton of solutions available today, all with a variety of capabilities and features. Then, you can evaluate the one best suited for your application.

The rich text edit control is a time-tested, robust, and feature-rich RTF editor component. This advanced component is available for Win32, Win64, .NET, Html/Javascript, and Java environments.

The TE rich editor routine allows a developer to incorporate text editing features into an MS-Windows application. The product is designed to be simple to use.

The TER editor offers the following features mentioned below –

Word Wrapping: The function can be enabled or disabled.

Imbedded Picture: You can import the picture from the clipboard or a desk file. It supports the bitmap, device-independent bitmap, and metafile picture formats.

Tab Support: Right, left, center, and decimal tab positions.

Paragraph Formatting: Right indentation, left indentation, centering, hanging indentation, double spacing, and justification.

Support for Multiple Column Documents and Multiple Sections: The editor offers ‘Page Mode’ feature to edit side-by-side multiple column text.

Character Formatting and Text Color: It allows for multiple point sizes and fonts within a document. The character style includes subscript, strikeout, italic, underline, bold, and superscript. The text can be written in multiple colors.

Input and Output Text Format: It supports the following file formats – DOC import, HTML format, DOCX format, Rich Text Format, Text Format.

Input and Output Source: The editor can accept data from a disk file or in a buffer. Likewise, the output can also be obtained in a disk file or buffer.

Application Programming Interface: The APIs allow you to insert or retrieve text and format attributes anywhere in the text window. In most cases, only a single API function is required to invoke the editor.

Block Highlighting: You can highlight the text using line highlighting or character highlighting functions.

Cut or Paste: The cut or paste to the clipboard is performed using the formats – Text format and Rich Text format.

Text and Picture Frames: The editor in the Page Mode allows frames to be moved and positioned anywhere on a page.

File and Buffer Size: The editor supports text files of unlimited size using Windows’ virtual memory capability.

Other Features:

• Optional ruler
• Optional tool bar
• Search/Replace
• Table support
• Column break
• Page header or footer
• Paragraph spacing
• Picture alignment
• Print preview with zoom
• Page numbering, and more.

Since the components are targeted to be used by software developers, the installation is quite simple. The software is delivered in a zip file. To install, you just need to copy the zip folder and then follow the instruction for usage. Don’t worry; your system won’t get affected by an automatic installation process, as our software does not come with self-installation.