How difficult is to develop a text editor in windows?
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How difficult is to develop a text editor in windows?
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Depends on what tools you use. To develop something offering basic functionality (like Notepad) using C# and WPF or Windows Forms (or VB if that’s your poison) would be pretty easy if you knew the language and the API well. Doing something similar with Python, Ruby, or something else and Tk, GTK, Qt, etc. wouldn’t be terribly hard either. Same goes for Java and AWT or Swing. Any graphics toolkit with a high level language is going to give you most of the scaffolding that all you really need to do is define the layout and add some logic (opening files, saving, etc.) Developing with C or C++ (unmanaged) and the Win32 API would be much more difficult, but still relatively simple.
You could probably put together a working Notepad clone rather quickly. It gets harder as you add features. I know that with my language and toolkit of choice (Python + Tkinter) I could probably do a feature for feature clone of Notepad in a few hours, right down to appearance and UI.