Short: Word processor with built-in spelling checker. Author: Nicholas Harvey (N.J.Harvey-93@student.lut.ac.uk) Uploader: Nicholas Harvey (N.J.Harvey-93@student.lut.ac.uk) Type: text/edit Replaces: text/edit/TextEngine5.0.lha ** NOTE: BUGFIX!! ********************************************************* This version of TextEngine is identical to V5.0 except I have removed a bug which caused incompatibility problems with programs which replace the standard Workbench requesters with ReqTools ones. *************************************************************************** FEATURES: Since its last release (version 4.1), TextEngine has undergone a total rewrite. Although no major new additions have been made, every feature of TextEngine has been improved to increase useability and flexibility. Here then are some of the more significant features of this new version: - The GUI has been brought bang up to date by replacing the old fixed font Intuition GUI with a fully font sensitive GadTools system. Since TextEngine now uses the Workbench screen instead of its own custom one, it adapts itself to your font, screen mode, and palette settings, blending in seamlessly with your working environment. - The length of a document is limited only by the amount of memory your machine contains, the same applying to the cut & paste buffers. - 11 type styles are still available, but now they are represented within the document by more meaningful symbols (e.g. bold text is represented by an inverted B character). Also, page margins are now overlaid on the text editing window allowing for easier positioning of text on the page. - BOOPSI slider gadgets in the window borders allow quick and easy movement around long documents. - TextEngine now supports the Workbench AppWindow feature, allowing documents to be loaded by simply dragging their icons onto TextEngine's window. - The 36,000 word spelling checker has been made more intelligent and now gives meaningful suggestions for the correct spelling of a word. Also, words can now be corrected automatically by the spelling checker instead of having to type corrections in by hand. REQUIREMENTS: I have programmed and tested TextEngine on my 4MB A1200 and it appears to work fine. However, no Workbench 3.x specific routines have been used, so it should be happy running on a 1MB system with Workbench 2.x. However, more memory is recommended if the spelling checker is to be used whilst editing long documents. TextEngine also requires the asl.library to be present in the LIBS drawer on your boot disk, and the parallel.device and printer.device correctly installed in the DEVS drawer for printing documents.  ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 628 275 56.2% 23-Oct-95 09:18:28 TextEngine V5.01.info 90988 29075 68.0% 18-Oct-95 17:21:48 +TextEngine 46491 13436 71.0% 13-Sep-95 22:42:44 +TextEngine.guide 479 249 48.0% 23-Oct-95 09:18:26 +TextEngine.guide.info 6814 1565 77.0% 23-Oct-95 09:18:22 +TextEngine.info 2875 46 98.4% 12-Sep-95 20:06:14 +TextEngine5.0.cfg 318291 94570 70.2% 06-Sep-95 23:25:28 +TextEngine5.0.dct 210 160 23.8% 23-Oct-95 09:12:50 +TextEngine5.01.readme 474 230 51.4% 23-Oct-95 09:18:24 +TextEngine5.01.readme.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 467250 139606 70.1% 25-Oct-95 23:10:04 9 files