[Design] Rich text in Chandler desktop

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

Thanks Robin for the thorough answer. Exploring the use of 
wxRichTextCtrl was the venue I proposed at the meeting. Looks like your 
expertize is saving us lots of time here... :)

One thing in your comment though made me raise one worried eyebrow:

Robin Dunn wrote:
>
> In addition to the lack of DnD support mentioned above the 
> RichTextCtrl still needs to add the ability to read/write standard 
> formats such as RTF or HTML, (currently it only uses a custom XML 
> format,) gain some performance improvements, and complete the wxPython 
> wrapper.
>
That's the "custom XML format" that gets me worried: since we're 
planning to use that in email editing, we can't really send around 
custom XML. How would that be displayed in other email clients? AFAIK, 
RTF is the way to go for basic email fancy work (bkirsch, please confirm 
or deny, I'm really not sure here...). Is there a method to convert back 
and forth between this format and RTF?

Also, reflecting on Mimi's initial list, the only thing that I'm really 
dearly missing right now in Chandler display of emails is the detection 
of URLs: coloring them and making them clickable. That was not in your 
list Mimi and I'd happily forgo all the rest for just that one feature...

Cheers,
- Philippe