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Wordpad was essentially just the Text Edit control, wrapped in some GUI cheese. Unless they plan to remove that control, it's trivial to re-constitute the prog
by BarbaryCoast 3y ago
Wordpad was essentially just the Text Edit control, wrapped in some GUI cheese. Unless they plan to remove that control, it's trivial to re-constitute the program. When I took a Windows programming course, this was actually one of the homework assignments.
- johannes1234321 3y agoIt's also a OLE/COM testing application.
- coldacid 3y agoAnd an MFC demo application.
- canucker2016 3y agoIt used the Rich text edit control, introduced in win95. They've upgraded the multi-tabbed notepad to use the Rich text edit control these days (win11)
- npteljes 3y agoHere is just that re-constitution: https://github.com/katahiromz/RWordPad https://github.com/katahiromz/RWordPad But I think it's the loss of the Wordpad that matters to people, but that Wordpad will be yanked from all current and future Windows machines. For people who use a lot of different systems as guest, this can matter.