I'm developing a Win CE 6 OS image and want to make it fit in the "Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Core Run-Time License".
This means, among other things, that I have to remove the Wordpad application.
From a product service and development perspective I'd like to replace it with something similar but free.
One thought was to do a simple editor in C#/CF.Net but I'd rather like to find something which can be plugged in and works, preferable free or at least cheaper than the 15$ per unit a bumped up license would cost.
Is there any suitably licensed text editors out there which are available for Win CE 6?
I don't need a rich text editor just a simple text editor to edit xml and text configuration files. The editor must be able to handle utf-8/unicode.
cke is quite good and I'm sure you can make some kind of a deal with it's author. CEdit is another good one.
I ended up writing my own simple file editor in C#/WinForms. Not great, but gets the job done.
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I am working on a form, for which I would rather not rely on the one fingered typists in the workshop to fill in (with the inevitable typo's). Therefore I wondered if anyone know how to speak directly into some cells in excel and have that speech turned into text?
I have searched the net and constantly find the text to speech option which is the exact opposite of what I would like to do.
Although this question might be more appropriate for a different site (e.g. https://superuser.com/), here's some information that's out there.
Windows has built-in support to speech-to-text. This article is for Windows 7, but I was able to do something similar to get it to work for Windows 10 (I'm not sure what version of Windows your shop uses). I'm sure there are other commercial products you can use.
With Windows 10, I had to enable speech services, then use the Win+H keyboard shortcut to activate dictation. With Excel open and in focus, anything I said was entered into the active cell.
I've always used TextWrangler/ Notepad++ to develop websites from scratch. I'm now coding what I'd say are very advanced websites this way.
I want to know if it's efficient to do things this way and whether I should learn DreamWeaver and use that
I use Dreamweaver, basically because I'm a designer not a coder. I find it useful to use Dreamweaver, because it has all the tools you need to create a website. Dreamweaver has the ability to be a WYSIWYG in the "Design" mode, but you can easily switch to the raw code and mess about with the code. Which is what I tend to do anyway.
Dreamweaver isn't a cheat way of web design, it is a tool. Much like a pencil and paper would be to an artist, or a hammer to a joiner. It's not what is used to create a website that should be ridiculed or the designer who uses Dreamweaver should be abused. But in fact the website itself, and the application of web design skills/knowledge.
Dreamweaver has it's own project file system, so you know exactly what is in your project and what isn't. You can also see all the external files that are linked in one HTML file, such as a JavaScript file. You can swap between the source code of the HTML file and the external file source code, with one click and with no other open "windows".
Dreamweaver is quite easy to learn (in my opinion), and should at least have a fair trial run.
If I were you, I would download a trial version of Dreamweaver, and try it out.
I hope I've helped in some way.
There are code editors with assists that are far better than DreamWeaver, like Espresso, Brackets or the upcoming TweakStyle.
Each software have a different added value depending on what you're searching for.
I want to create a desktop mockup on Elementary OS 0.2. By "mockup" I mean something that shows off the aesthetic of the mockup, mostly just showing what selecting/clicking/hovering over a button or widget does to that particular part of the UI. I'm thinking about creating the various parts on GIMP and coding animation and transition logic into the final result. I know that something like this can be done in HTML/JS, but I want to avoid using those. Is there anything optimized for a project like this? I'm open to most languages.
Try WireframeSketcher wireframing tool. Unlike Gimp or PowerPoint, WireframeSketcher is designed specifically to help you create mockups and wireframes. It comes pre-packaged for Debian systems and can also be found in Software Center and so it works on Elementary OS too. Note that it's a commercial tool, but you can try it freely for 14 days.
Most PMs at large companies mock these things up using a presentation package like PowerPoint. If you know the routine and where to click it can look fantastic with minimal effort.
MockupUI does both wireframe and Windows native looking mockups. It uses your desktop's visual style which makes screens and widgets look as a standard Windows application. MockupUI lets you export screens as individual images, docx, pdf or html.
Actions/interactions can be explained by highlighting widgets and adding text annotations.
We're going to be building some J2ME apps and Java/Rails webapps which will have a Kannada(a south indian language, for those who don't know much about India) UI. The UI and the data will both be in Kannada for these apps.
So, we will need to write code containing some of these language text in the source code. I find it irritating that neither emacs nor XEmacs OR Jedit can edit any of these languages :-(
Someone mentioned that a variant of Emacs can do it except I don't know if it works on Windows and where to get hold of it.
I know notepad can do the trick BUT it's not a programmer's editor.
P.S : I am an EMacs guy but will be open to using other programmer editors.
P.P.S : This should work on Windows Vista/Windows 7. I wouldn't mind using VirtualBox or VMWare to boot into Linux to use an Linux Editor, if that is the only option I have!
So, we will need to write code containing some of these language text in the source code.
I think any Windows editor that supports UTF-8 will be able to do this. There should be plenty to choose from.
I'm the as the author of the Zeus editor and just recently UTF-8 support was added so I would expect Zeus should be able to do exactly this. But if it doesn't feel free to report a bug on the Zeus forum.
P.S : I am an EMacs guy but open to using other programmer editors in this situation.
Zeus has a Emacs keyboard emulation mode ;)
Considering it's Java you're using: Have you tried Eclipse? I know it's not an editor and might be a little overkill when one is used to Emacs, but it uses SWT which in turn uses the OS's native font rendering. And at least my browser shows that the Uniscribe can display Kannada just fine.
Another option might be Notepad++.
I've got several large MFC applications here, and converting them into any other format is out of the question. We're expanding into other markets, and would like to make the apps work in other languages and cultures.
So far, I've found occasional references as to what to do with Visual C++ version 6, with one mention that later versions of MFC have additional relevant features. Searching MSDN gives me instructions on how to convert the apps to Unicode, which we already did. I found nothing on MSDN on how to make languages multilingual once they're in Unicode, only a few older things using Google, and one book about internationalization using VC++6. (We're using Visual Studio 2008 now, on XP and Vista.)
I make no claims for the strength of my Google-fu, and would be happy to be directed to things I've missed.
Is it reasonable to use the methods of VC++6, or should I use later features?
If I should use features later than that, where can I find some reference to them?
Is there something I should worry about other than setting the locale, converting all strings to resources, and duplicating resources in different languages?
I can find more things about .NET internationalization, but I'm inexperienced in .NET. What will I find there that's applicable to VC++ and MFC?
Edit: I just ran into difficulties trying to put Unicode strings into the String Table resource. (As far as I can tell, Unicode strings need to be entered into the .rc file with a text editor, in L"0x0034" form. I haven't found a resource editor way to do that.) Any tips on that? Any other resource I can use in VS2008 using VC++ and MFC?
Edit: Somebody on a Microsoft forum suggested that I open the offending .rc file in Notepad, and save it in Unicode. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to fix the dialogs, although the stringtable seems to be working in Japanese.
There's a lot more than just translating "strings" to internationalize an application.
Most of your UI will need to be updated to take into account the different text lengths, and language orientation (thing Hebrew, Chinese, Arabic, ...)
Some images will also need to be changed to fit a different culture (unfortunately, I don't have an example for that), either the figurative is different or the colors do not fit local specifications.
We are using a tool like appTranslator to help us do the cosmetic localization (UI re-formatting) and use a professional technical translator for the strings.
You can also create a resource only dll
See How To Create Localized Resource DLLs for MFC Application for more details.
You can internationalize your application using the following ways.
After you converted the application to unicode (you already did) and all the strings should be loaded from String table.
For each language you need to change the string table and compile
One more way is to maintain a XML file which contains all the strings in the localized format. Load the xml and strings depending on the language.
Here's a CodeProject article of mine that describes very "coding-efficient" method to pull strings from the string table (required for translatable texts):
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/stringtable.aspx
Here's another class that help your app pick the right UI language. It also helps you create a language selection menu:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/LanguageMenu.aspx
Last but not least, appTranslator is a tool that helps you translate the UI of your app, detect what changes were made in resources since the last version, create translated exe or resource DLLs and much more:
http://www.apptranslator.com
(Note: I'm the author of appTranslator.)