VC (win32) or WPF for developing a text editor

Question

I have this confusion for developing this application in Win32 or WPF (.NET). This application mainly consists of a text editor (I think, similar to the one in MS OneNote) with many individual requirements compared to a general text editor.

I was thinking of using VC to work on this, since a lot of custom drawing is required. What do you suggest? Is WPF the best solution for such applications? Or is Win32 better to go?

Answer 1

If you want to write some kind of graphical application on Windows, I would recommend not using C ++ .. NET is much better for creating a GUI than for all C ++ GUI libraries that are on Windows. I could see the use of WPF to write an application like OneNote, which works quite well, since WPF is very easy to expand.

Answer 2

If you want to use the commercial WPF text editor, you can check it with ActiPro: http://www.actiprosoftware.com/Products/DotNet/WPF/SyntaxEditor/Default.aspx