Simple Note Pad

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Introduction

The Simple Note Pad application is a useful for beginners in C# .net. It teaches a person to start making good text editors. It is only a start point, people should read the code and develop further from here.

Background

This application is a start point for any developer who wants to make an entry in writing editors and viewers. I wrote this application when I started my work on an editor like MS word. It is an excellent application to start with

Using the code

The code should be used to start making new editors. The code is extremely simple. For a novice, it is an excellent piece of code. It has an object of System.Windows.Forms.Form class which has many private objects for various controls like MenuStrip, StatusStrip, TextBox, ToolStripMenuItems, etc. There are eventhandlers for mouse enter, mouse leave for tips being flashed on the status bar. There are eventhandler for the click event for each of the ToolStripMenuItem on the Menu.

The abstract of objects is given below: -

//System.Windows.Forms.Form Form1;
// System.Windows.Forms.MenuSTrip Menu;
// System.Windows.Forms.StatusStrip Status; 

For more details on the objects and methods, kindly refer to the documentation along with the source code.

Points of Interest

If you going to start working on writing on a new editor, do read this code. This could become the start point of your code for writing a good editor like MS Word.

History

Keep a running update of any changes or improvements you've made here.