> I literally could write a WordPad clone in an afternoon
You might be able to make a Notepad clone in an afternoon, but not wordpad.
Creating parsers for all the formats it supports (rtf/doc/html) as well as the renderer/wysiwyg editor would take anyone several days of either coding, or stitching libs together.
The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.
tredre3|2 years ago
You might be able to make a Notepad clone in an afternoon, but not wordpad.
Creating parsers for all the formats it supports (rtf/doc/html) as well as the renderer/wysiwyg editor would take anyone several days of either coding, or stitching libs together.
lockhouse|2 years ago
nullindividual|2 years ago
No shipping code is free.