J-Write for Windows - a product of MWA Software. ================================================ This is J-Write for Windows - a fast well featured editor for general text files and EMail. J-Write is both a useful application and a demonstration of a new set of components for Borland Delphi. J-Write supports editing of very large files, any ANSI Font, configurable tab settings and four line wrap modes, multi-level undo/redo and many other features. See the readme files and the online help for further info. Shareware, From MWA Software. This file contains information about J-Write and Installation instructions. See the file ORDER.TXT for pricing information and How to Order J-Write, LICENCE.TXT for the shareware licence, and WHATS.NEW for information on the latest release. Support is provided by EMail from jwrite@mwassocs.demon.co.uk (Internet) or 100041,315 (Compuserve). Please also check out our web pages on http://www.demon.co.uk/mwa-soft J-Write provides: * Fast editing of large files - up to the maximum DOS and Windows can support, while using only a few Kilobytes for each open file. * Four word wrap algorithms, including a WYSIWYG wrap on printer page width * Support of any ANSI font including variable pitch fonts, and configurable tab settings * EMail extensions including automatic insertion of quote prefixes, reformatting of EMail Messages and uuencode/decode * Zoom In and Out * Multi-level undo/redo with no limit other than available memory * Bookmarks, jump to any page or line number, and fast search/replace, including searching for tabs, page breaks and line breaks * Word captialise, text flow, conversion of soft to hard line breaks, and many other valuable features. * Normal and block mode selection of text with both the keyboard and the mouse. J-Write is also available as a set of Delphi components, making its powerful editing engine available to Delphi Developers. J-Write components are available for both 16-bit applications and 32-bit applications. ABOUT J-WRITE ============= Microsoft Windows provides two built-in text editors - Notepad and MS Write (Wordpad in Windows 95). Notepad is a simple plain text editor for small files, while MS Write is a small word processor. However, they both suffer from what might be called the Goldilocks paradox, neither is just right. Notepad’s problem is that it is not powerful enough. It is unable to open text files of any significant size. Activity logs and Bulletin Board Directories are but two of the file types that Notepad habitually rejects due to the file being too big. On the other hand, MS Write is too powerful (and often too slow) for simply displaying or editing simple text files - and - if you are not careful - you can too easily save a modified file in MS Write’s own format and not simple ASCII text. There is a need for a Windows text editor that is "just right". Powerful enough to edit text files of any size, but not too feature loaded as to slow it down. Enter J-Write. J-Write aims to be the text editor that is "just right". There is no limit on the file size that you can edit. You can jump from one end to the other in the same time as you can jump to the next page, and free text searches of megabytes of data just have to be seen to be believed. J-Write supports free and easy text editing. All the usual edit keys are there and word wrap is automatic. Lines may be wrapped on actual line breaks, on screen boundaries, on printer page boundaries (true WYSIWYG), or after so many characters. You can flow lines of text into paragraphs and saved edited files as paragraph text or line oriented text. Any ANSI Windows font is supported, both variable and fixed pitch. You can also set tabs to any position you want. The mouse is well supported with drag and drop editing. Clipboard support is naturally provided, and there are multiple user setable undo and redo levels, if you need to undo editing operations. J-Write also has special extensions for EMail. You can merge in existing text files either as they are, or with each line prefixed by a "Mail Quotes" string. Text pasted from the clipboard can similarly have a Mail Quotes prefix. Binary files can also be uuencoded prior to merging. Both text and binary files can also be compressed using your favourite compression utility, before the uuencode engine is applied. UUDecode can also be performed on any text currently in the edit window. J-Write comes with online context-sentive help. J-Write is marketed as shareware. You have a licence to use it for thirty days after which you should either register it or stop using it. There is no Nagware other than an initial About Box, and registration depends on your honesty. But it is to your advantage to register. Firstly, the registration of shareware ensures that more low cost high quality programs are produced. Secondly, registered users of J-Write get the J-Write editing engine as a Delphi Component. The text editor can then be incorporated in any of your applications. The full source code is also available. INSTALLATION ============ J-Write comes with its own setup program and installation should be largely automatic. If you obtained J-Write from a Bulletin Board, then it is likely that the installation files will be contained in a single pkzip archive. You must first use the pkunzip program to expand the archive into either a temporary directory, or on to a single floppy disk (a 720KB diskette will be sufficient). Minimum system requirements: Windows 3.1, 600KB free disk space. The setup procedures are different depending on whether you are installing under Windows 3.x, or Windows 95. Installation under Windows 3.x ============================== When installing under Windows 3.x, you must install J-Write from Program Manager. Select the RUN menu item from Program Manager's FILE menu and enter the file name and path of the J-Write setup program. For example, if you are installing from a Diskette in drive A:, you will enter: A:\SETUP.EXE Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory, then you will enter the path of the temporary directory instead. For example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then you will enter: C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe Press OK. The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in File Manager, J-Write will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from File Manager's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, the J-Write will be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set when you last used J-Write. Installation under Windows 95 ============================= When installing under Windows 95, you must install J-Write using the Add/Remove Programs applet on the Control Panel. If you are installing from a Diskette, then the applet should find the setup program automatically. Follow the on screen instructions to start the J-Write setup program. Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory, then you will need to assist the Add/Remove Programs applet and explicitly enter the path of the temporary directory or Browse for it instead. For example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then you will enter: C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe Press Finish The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in Explorer, J-Write will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from Explorer's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, then J-Write will be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set when you last used J-Write. REMOVING J-WRITE =================== In the unlikely event that you will want to remove J-Write, removal is straightforward. An uninstall program will have been installed by the installation program and this may be found in the J Write program group. Simply run this program and J-Write will be removed and notepad configured as your default text viewer. Under Windows 95, you can also uninstall the 32-bit version of J-Write from the Install/Remove programs Control Panel Applet.