[MacGorilla]

Hi,

Are you interested in making a little pocket cash? Here is what I need:

Carbon/Cocoa Word processor with these features:
1. Choice of fonts
2. Choice of font styles (bold, italic, etc)
3. Alignment (Center, left, right)
4. Line Spacing options (1, 1.5, 2)
5. Print Preview
Optional:
1. Line showing end of page
2. Page numbering

Code should be completely original as the app will be used in a high profile enviroment. Client has tried AppleWorks and wants something a little less bulky for their roving salespeople.

Interested? Mail me, Chris Turkel, at chris@macgorilla.com for details. The faster this gets done, the better.

[Marshall]

Actually, the required feature set (choice of fonts, styles, alignment, line spacing, and print preview) are all built into the Cocoa objects...along with indentation, kerning, graphics support, etc. etc. etc. Stone Design's web site shows how to build such a word processor with 13 lines of code.

I don't know if an end-of-page marker or page numbering are built in, but if they're not, I'd guess that they'd be fairly trivial additions to someone who knew the Cocoa frameworks.

I'd probably do it for free if I had the developer tools, just to teach myself some Cocoa.

[MacGorilla]

What developer tools do you need? I know nothing, therefore I cannot code. If You agree to do the work, I can provide whatever tools you need (almost...I don't have code warrior but I do have the developer tools).

[Marshall]

What sorts of things do you need it to do that Mac OS X's built-in TextEdit program doesn't do? If you turn on the rulers and enable "Wrap To Page", you've got a pretty decent word processor, with fonts, styles, colors, left/center/right/full justify, control over the spacing between lines (measured in points, though, not in "1", "1.5", "2", but you could consider that added flexibility), print preview (including save to PDF), and a line showing the end of the page. It's also got tabs, a ruler, a spelling checker (including highlighting of misspelled words if you want it), search-and-replace, kerning, subscript/superscript, etc. About the only thing I can see that it doesn't do is number the pages, which you listed as an optional feature.

While I'd certainly be interested in getting the PB developer tools and learning more about the Cocoa objects (hopefully this wish will be granted in the next couple of weeks), it sounds like the free editor built into Mac OS X will serve your needs. It's not bulky, it's free, it requires no special installation or file formats, and it exists today.

BTW, I tried sending you E-mail but my provider is not recognizing your address for some reason.

[This message has been edited by Marshall (edited 10-06-2000).]

[knobby]

This probably won't help much, but...

The source for "textEdit" is included as an example ProjectBuilder cocoa project with the Developer Tools.

The source for a carbonized version of "SimpleText" is also included in the examples, if you'd prefer to hack that to meet your needs..