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SmashApps TypeIt 1.3
Version: 1.3

I have done heaps with the next version but I am putting up an image just underneath for you guys to give me some suggestions.

I want to get 1.4 completed soon and I need some Beta testers, the next few releases are going to have alot more features and improvements done.

1.3 Changes:

There is now a few people working on the application and I am still looking for more people to join my Team, go to http://smashapps.tk/ then apply to join.

Anyway, there has been several bug fixes, when you open a file a new tab is created instead of replacing the open document, A Char counter, When you save a file that is open in another application it wont cause an error, when you have selected something on the Interface like the Justify or Regular text its back color will change so you know which one is selected. The icon has been changed also, and finally there has been many other changes but I lost my file of changes.

1.3 Interface:




What is it?
SmashApps TypeIt is an RTE, A Rich-Text Editor. It can open Word documents, and save documents. Last week I had a competition to see who could make the best RTE but people were arguing that it was difficult to properly save and open documents, well this actually has more then one method of saving and opening files, it opens files and then it can open documents.

It does it by using a Try statement it will attempt to Load the file if it doesn't work then it uses the Stream Reader. The difference is that using the LoadFile method it can properly load documents but if you open word documents with the Stream Reader it won't work properly.

Some of it's features?
Well we've gathered that it can save and open word documents and pretty much every other type of document and text file well what are some of the apps features you may ask?

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 - Changed the font of selected text with a press of a button (Regular, Bold, Strikeout, Underline, and Italic)
 - Justify text Left, Right and Center
 - Bullet lists
 - Selected text back color, selected text forecolor, rather then the simple editors that change the entire documents fore color or font you can change what ever is selected, and you can also change the default forecolor and font.
 - Multi tab editing
 - Quick Save feature, if you save or open your work you can use the quick save feature to just click and its saved automatically.
 - If you exit the app it will ask if you want to save

and heaps more!

How do I run it the application?
It uses .Net framework 4.0, this can be downloaded from Microsoft. In the future I'm going to make it use 3.5 and 4.0.

[Napster1488]

Looks cool Dude...
but maybe next Time make some other Design not only a Bunch of Buttons it looks like the same Design on your WebBrowser ;)

[smashapps]

Yeah I know haha i spent most time on making sure it works and the developing of it not so much the designing but I do plan on setting that out a bit better designing isn't really my thing

[Agust1337]

I agree maybe use a menubar/menustrip and toolbar/toolstrip

[smashapps]

I just changed the price to 0 credits in the next few updates I will work on it again and fix it up and release 1.2 is there any features I should work on adding? apart from the UI

[Jg99]

Looks Good
and an idea is Spell Check and Word count

[smashapps]

Without things getting too complicated the only way I know of easily making spell check is if you actually have microsoft word installed but the word counter will be easy

[mikethedj4]

A lot of the text editors I've seen made in VB didn't really appeal to me, but I'm used to real advanced apps like NotePad++ for example.

I dig it except the default font is crap, but I'm glad the user can change it.

It had an interesting UI I was expecting when I clicked to add a bullet, if I clicked it again it'd remove the bullet, and it didn't, which I wasn't very happy about, and spent probably 45 secs to a minute trying to remove it, and it shouldn't take that long (at least it wasn't longer, cause someone like my dad or mother, it would probably of been 15 mins for them)

I do think if you've added underline, and strikethrews, overlines should be added too, but that my opinion.

Also I love how it has a tab system, accepts all file formats to open, and save however. The average user will just type the name of whatever they want their document to be, and save it, so I think by default have it as a .txt file and then have the user change it to whatever they'd like.

[smashapps]

You always give great feedback I not long added bullets, strikeouts etc so when you click them again it stays the same but with the bullets if you press enter it will add another bullet, it wont be a bullet

I will fix it up so if you press it again it will change back to the default font and work on the UI thanks guys

[smashapps]

an image of what 1.2 looks like is up please tell me what you guys think, im still add the word counter though