Please try my HTML Editor?

In My Humble Opinion
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Hi All,

I have just spent the last couple of days programming a HTML Editor. It is designed to run really large files very fast or small HTML files on slower computers. It has a number of useful buttons that insert and ammend common code such as images, lines, colors, links, backgrounds, etc.

I would appreciate it very much if you could try it out and give me some suggestions and feedback and generally what you thought about it.

It’s about 4mb in size
http://members.xoom.com/thecashmaker/hshtm1_5.zip

Just remember I am only 16 so don’t expect too much,

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Just bumping it up so that everyone can see it.

I am currently working on version 2, so any feedback will really… really help me in improving it. I am considering puting in an internal html viewer, would this be handy?

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I’m downloading it now, so I’ll let you know what I think.

But, yeah, an internal HTML viewer would be great. Especially if you can through in both IE’s and Mozilla’s engines.

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What are the system requirements of this program?

By the way, good for you in this effort. All the best of luck!

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I don’t know the system requirements because I haven’t tested it on many systems (tell you the truth I have only tested it on 3 machines).

That’s why I need people to test it and give me feedback so I know what it wont work on and what can be improved.

I have discovered a flaw in the install program, on some systems it says that it can’t find a particular system file. Just click ignore (or the equivilant) it will install the required file. But apart from that I welcome criticism.

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i think it would be nice to be able to set the link, text, visited link, etc colors through the little “body” function.
More color to pick from would be nice to, though I have no idea how hard it would be to have a full color palate thingie.
Other than that, I don’t know. I use AOLPress, and thought most people don’t have many nice things to say about it, I really like it.
Oh yeah, it also told me it had trouble creating an icon.
BTW my computer is: 350mhz processor, 48MB ram, like 300 MB harddrive space left (:eek) windows 98, umm, and i think thats all. I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but I figured that might help some.

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Thankyou for trying it out.

I am going to have a hex color selection thingy just like photoshop, I don’t think it could be that incredibly hard… well maybe it could?!

But yer thanks all. I have sent the program to just about all the major shareware and freeware sites on the net…

zdnet
cnet download.com
davidcentral (I can’t really remember the name)
Big (Something)
And a few others I don’t use that often.

I will continue to work on ver2 and I will keep you posted when I complete it so you can check out all the new features, probably in a few months.

Thankyou again.

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I played with it for about five minutes last night, and had these observations:

  1. “Editor” is misspelled in the installation program (as “Edito”).

  2. An option to wrap long lines of code onto a second and third line would be greatly appreciated.

  3. When I closed the program, I wasn’t prompted to save the file I had opened and changed.

  4. A 216-web-safe-colour picker would be great.

  5. I too got the error about a file being in use when I installed the program.

FTR, I’m on a P2 300mhz, 128mb, Win2k Professional.

All in all, it looks like a good start. It’s not going to replace my copy of HomeSite 4.5 yet, but keep at it. Is this your first app?

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The only good HTML editor is a plain ASCII text editor,
like notepad or EMacs.

Well, okay, maybe a context-sensitive text editor like the HTML edit mode in Visual C++ is marginally more useful, what with how it shows <directives> in different colors than the rest of the text. But I prefer not to have the encodings within my webpage hidden from me. I never trust an editor not to put in IE-specific or Netscape-specific HTML code. Never.

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I have thought carefully about the comments made and I have come to these conclusions to add to version 2:

A 216-web-safe-colour picker
An Internal Viewer
A Save prompt at exiting
A New Install Program (One without errors)
Code Highlighting (In different Colors)
Common Javascript and DHTML Menus (Tools to insert)
Body Text colors (including links etc)
Tables and Frames
Bullets and Numbers
Forms

I hope this gives it a sophisticated edge, to come close to Industry Standard.

Yes, this is my first app at age 16. But I wrote a flatfile database last night as like a Calender (organiser), I don’t really think I am going to work more on that because I think that no one would ever pay for one when it comes free with windows.

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When I tried to insert a picture, I got an error that said
Run-time error ‘76’:
Path not found: ‘C:\file.jpg’
and it closed the program.

When I tried to insert a picture that wasn’t in the C:\ foler (or whatever) it was fine.

A few other tiny things you could add (I opened up AOLpress and compared the things that has and yours doesn’t):

  • In the link command thing, a field for the ‘source’ of a link
  • When you hover over the buttons, a little bubble telling you what the button does would also be nice.
  • I’d like to be able to change the font (the font of the program, not the font in the html) but that’s not all that important
  • Something to change the font size (in the HTML, not the program ;))
  • a <P> command button (yes, I know it’s only 3 letters, but I’m lazy and I use that a lot)

Table would be good. Include something to change the spacing, padding, and border size of the tables.

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Cool. Yep I’ll take up your comments as well,

If I get all of these things done soon do you think that some of you will actually be able to use ver2? And not saying that because your trying to be nice, I mean actually find it useful and replace another program that you are currently using?

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