[preview] Mail.app

are you in need of beta testers once this beauty is ready? ...i would love to help out. :woot:

#164262

for loops. else...else ifs...oh boy! :woot: (tries to remove image of last years cse123c cse course with ruth ungar)

beautiful job so far. down the road, let me know if you need any testers

#164264

good idea, but is an application stand alone?

If it is it will be stable? I hope that it will be a method to convert the mail of outlook and other mail app to this

#164357

looks good dude

i cant wait

@ people who nag about beta testers: the app is pnly 10% done, sheesh, giv it a while

and mith, i like your coding comments "//This is the right shadow... as opposed to the wrong shadow. MWAHAHA... I kill myself "

#164374

I spent this morning looking for the best way to format the text in recieved emails (obviously, simple text isn't going to cut it), and I finally decided on using the Rich Edit 2.0 dll, which is the same dll that Microsoft uses to format text in Office 98 (2000 uses version 3.0).

Originally posted by megabit+-->
QUOTE(megabit)

...is an application stand alone?
Rather than write my own text formating code, I'll be using Rich Edit 2.0 (riched20.dll in your system32 directory). And I'll be using the custom-coded shadowing dll. But I won't be relying on any VB OCXs, so Mail.app will avoid dll hell. hopefully.

Originally posted by megabit+-->
QUOTE(megabit)

...it will be stable?
lol, I certainly hope so!

#164527

Originally posted by Mark
moi

might want to try go back and edit your post? works fine for me

editing a quote in my post works fine for me too. damn...and I thought I had found a bug :6

ps: mail app sounds great so far. I'll definately be doing lots of outlook importing, so that would be great, thank you very much. out of curiosity, whats wrong with version 3.0 of that dll?

#164531

Looking great, Mithrandel.

Outlook (Express) is using some kind of MSHTML or Internet_Explorer control to render HTML e-mails.

btw

if( blabla)
{
   // do nothing
}
else
{
  // do something
}

Might be slower when you are going over millions of pixels. Better make it

if( ! blabla)
{
  // do something
}

This way, the CPU doesn't have to branch to your else-statement. It might be get optimized away tho. :smartass:

Can't wait for this to replace my Outlook Express :rock:

#164546

Originally posted by AndreasV@May 19 2004, 01:23 PM-->
QUOTE(AndreasV @ May 19 2004, 01:23 PM)
if( ! blabla){  // do something<!--QuoteEBegin
[b]
damn...never knew that. and that would just make sense wouldn't it.

wow

thank you!

#164818

Hehehe, well, I would change it, but I think I might add a top shadow for the folders window later. That shouldn't be so difficult... we'll see.

As for RichEdit 2.0 vs. RichEdit 3.0, I decided that I didn't need any of the new features in 3.0, so I stayed with the earlier version. Since 2.0 and 3.0 are encapsulated by the same dll, moving up versions is a simple process of calling the functions new to 3.0. I think. :smartass:

I hooked into the RichEdit20 dll, and I've got it outputting some pretty text in a fairly speedy fashion. Behold: I've created auto-formatting of links. Bwahaha! :lol:

#164824

Behold!

Hahahah that was funny. Looking good!

#165394

My compliments to you Mith for the development of the Mail program. Its' looking better and better everytime you post a SS (always throwing in some sexyness to wet our mouths and our.... errr we shall leave it at that ).

Keep up the excellent work! Looking forward to its release (no pressure)!

Cheers.

#165404

very nice, good luck with this

Josh

#165498

Extremly slick! Good luck with this project! (Y) Looks promising

#165649

looks fantastic so far. great job!

the behold quote was funny, hehe :lol:

#165650

After several days of subclassing and just over 800 lines of code, I've come to the conclusion that the RichEdit dll doesn't have the sort of control I need to draw my message canvas (specifically, I had problems with RichEdit scrolling without telling windows that it was doing so). Therefore, I think I'll be using the InternetExplorer_Server dll to draw recieved messages. *sigh* That's a couple of days wasted.

#166524

ouch, sorry to hear that. looking good; really interested in trying this out.

#166544

thats a shame... the RichEdit would probably have been better... oh well! Keep going! I really want this app!

#167333

just found this thread and couldn't stop reading

great great app!

i'll love to try too!