cke a Text Editor for PocketPC

Name	version	date
cke	0.21 alpha	sept 5 2006

changes from version 0.20

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last update nov, 12 2006

In this page: Introduction, Features, Future improvements, Help on the program, downloads, contact, disclaimer.

cke snapshot cke is a general purpose text editor designed for the PocketPC handhelds. It includes several features that I have missed in other similar programs, such as simultaneous editing of multiple documents, customization of fonts, tabsize, indenting, sintax highlighting of different languages, wordwrap, ..., see the a more complete list in the features section.

The present version lacks however of several useful features, which you will possible miss, as I do. Some of them will be present in future releases, however I will not work inmediatly on them until I'll have a more stable release with the present features.

This program is free to use, without any restriction, however if you like it and find it useful, you can support further developpement trhought a donation (see below). You can also help a lot reporting both bugs and/or suggestions.

You must think that the release is currently in an alpha state and is not very reliable. I must advice you in particular that I haven't yet implemented any out-of-memory handling, and that several file handling functions do not detect errors, however I think it is already useful as it is, if you are careful in saving edited files regularly.

features:

simultaneous editing of multiple documents. You can even open multiple documents at the same time through the comand line, (however you can't yet from the file open dialog).
syntax highlighting through a syntax definition file. (The current release includes syntax files for c#, c++, html and TeX. Several others are downlodable from the download section).
different document classes with the possiblity of different customization of: font (fixed pitched), font size, font width (a % factor), inter-line width (in pixels), tabsize, indentation, syntax, text colors, wordwrap, and sintax file.
search and replace of simple text (in the future it will include regexps).
external command launch from the editor. In particular, the "View in Explorer" is predefined (thought configurable), you can find several examples of customization later in this page.
An improved fileopen system (the one included in WinCE is really poor), inspired in one I found for MFC, and that I have adapted and completed with more functionalities.
Associate the program to extensions. Certain extension (.h, .c, .cpp, .htm, .html, .tex) have their own icons with the extension written on them, in order to simplify their recognition in the file explorer. The programs remembers the previous association and restores the previous situation when you remove the association. Beware that uninstaling the program does not remove the associations you might have. In order to do that you have to explicitly do it before uninstaling.

file open dialog

Future improvements:

Certain important features are yet not implemented in the program, examples are:

Overwrite mode and block mode.
hexadecimal view and binary files
split window.
regular expresions (regexps).
diferent formats (unicode + code pages + UTF8 / DOS + unix ...)
Multiple selection of files in file open.
context help (based in the active language)
dictionary search and word completion based on context. (science fiction).
customize keyboard shortcuts and toolbars
print

while some of theese are easy to implement others (like the word completion) are pretty difficult, ...

Help on the programm

There are several pages which may help you to work with the program if you have problems:

the Help file of the program. You can access it also from the Start menu help button, it is context sensitive.
General settings. (to be written)
How to define a new class.
Syntax files.
Common comand settings. (to be written)

Downloads:

Before downloading please read the disclaimer later in this page.

Click here to download: ckev021.exe or cke0-21.cab (5211 downloads from Jul, 28 2006).

Executing the .exe, it will extract the files to the same directory where the .exe resides. Then execute the setup.exe for a normal instalation through ActiveSync or copy the .cab file to your choosen folder in the handheld. The sintax files are optional, choose the ones you will use and discard the others.

Contact information:

You can contact me and send me any comments or suggestions in the e-mail cke@animaniak.com

There is a group in google for discussing this software, see http://groups.google.com/group/ckeppc, I invite you to join this group to keep up to date of the new releases, and to help me in improving and testing this software.

Freeware disclaimer:

important: This software is provided "as is", and you, its user, assume all risks when using it. The author of this freeware, Kubilai Solutions, accepts no responsibility for damages resulting from the use of this product and makes no warranty or representation, either express or implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. If your locality does not allow these warranty conditions, you are not granted permission to use this free software.

Donations:

If you have liked the software you can contribute to it's further developpement throught a donation to it's author. Note that not beeing a charity, your donation will not usually imply tax-reductions, (thought that might depend on your country).