Text editor

Hi,
i'm making very simple text editor. It can open, edit and save plain text documents. I almost made main functions that i need but i have no idea how make text field? How delete newline and previous or any othrer line?
Help me if you know how to make that
Welcome to the text editor club. :-)

It makes a difference in how you store the text data [edit]in memory[/edit]. Are you using a linked list? Or a block buffer? (Or a deque? etc)
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Can anyone tell me where to start?
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Dev C++ provides a very simple text editor example:

Menu.rc
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#include "Main.h"

MAINMENU MENU 
{
 POPUP "&File"
 {
  MENUITEM "&Open...", CM_FILE_OPEN
  MENUITEM "Save &As...", CM_FILE_SAVEAS
  MENUITEM SEPARATOR
  MENUITEM "E&xit", CM_FILE_EXIT
 }

 POPUP "&Help"
 {
  MENUITEM "&About", CM_ABOUT
 }
}


Main.h
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#define CM_FILE_SAVEAS	9072
#define CM_FILE_EXIT	9071
#define CM_FILE_OPEN	9070
#define CM_ABOUT        9069 


Main.c
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#include <windows.h>

#include "Main.h"

static char g_szClassName[] = "MyWindowClass";
static HINSTANCE g_hInst = NULL;

#define IDC_MAIN_TEXT   1001

BOOL LoadFile(HWND hEdit, LPSTR pszFileName)
{
   HANDLE hFile;
   BOOL bSuccess = FALSE;

   hFile = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);
   if(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
   {
      DWORD dwFileSize;
      dwFileSize = GetFileSize(hFile, NULL);
      if(dwFileSize != 0xFFFFFFFF)
      {
         LPSTR pszFileText;
         pszFileText = (LPSTR)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwFileSize + 1);
         if(pszFileText != NULL)
         {
            DWORD dwRead;
            if(ReadFile(hFile, pszFileText, dwFileSize, &dwRead, NULL))
            {
               pszFileText[dwFileSize] = 0; // Null terminator
               if(SetWindowText(hEdit, pszFileText))
                  bSuccess = TRUE; // It worked!
            }
            GlobalFree(pszFileText);
         }
      }
      CloseHandle(hFile);
   }
   return bSuccess;
}

BOOL SaveFile(HWND hEdit, LPSTR pszFileName)
{
   HANDLE hFile;
   BOOL bSuccess = FALSE;

   hFile = CreateFile(pszFileName, GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, CREATE_ALWAYS, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);
   if(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
   {
      DWORD dwTextLength;
      dwTextLength = GetWindowTextLength(hEdit);
      if(dwTextLength > 0)// No need to bother if there's no text.
      {
         LPSTR pszText;
         pszText = (LPSTR)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwTextLength + 1);
         if(pszText != NULL)
         {
            if(GetWindowText(hEdit, pszText, dwTextLength + 1))
            {
               DWORD dwWritten;
               if(WriteFile(hFile, pszText, dwTextLength, &dwWritten, NULL))
                  bSuccess = TRUE;
            }
            GlobalFree(pszText);
         }
      }
      CloseHandle(hFile);
   }
   return bSuccess;
}

BOOL DoFileOpenSave(HWND hwnd, BOOL bSave)
{
   OPENFILENAME ofn;
   char szFileName[MAX_PATH];

   ZeroMemory(&ofn, sizeof(ofn));
   szFileName[0] = 0;

   ofn.lStructSize = sizeof(ofn);
   ofn.hwndOwner = hwnd;
   ofn.lpstrFilter = "Text Files (*.txt)\0*.txt\0All Files (*.*)\0*.*\0\0";
   ofn.lpstrFile = szFileName;
   ofn.nMaxFile = MAX_PATH;
   ofn.lpstrDefExt = "txt";

   if(bSave)
   {
      ofn.Flags = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_PATHMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY |
         OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT;
         
      if(GetSaveFileName(&ofn))
      {
         if(!SaveFile(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_TEXT), szFileName))
         {
            MessageBox(hwnd, "Save file failed.", "Error",
               MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
            return FALSE;
         }
      }
   }
   else
   {
      ofn.Flags = OFN_EXPLORER | OFN_FILEMUSTEXIST | OFN_HIDEREADONLY;
      if(GetOpenFileName(&ofn))
      {
         if(!LoadFile(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_TEXT), szFileName))
         {
            MessageBox(hwnd, "Load of file failed.", "Error",
               MB_OK | MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
            return FALSE;
         }
      }
   }
   return TRUE;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT Message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
   switch(Message)
   {
      case WM_CREATE:
         CreateWindow("EDIT", "",
            WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL | ES_MULTILINE |
               ES_WANTRETURN,
            CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT,
            hwnd, (HMENU)IDC_MAIN_TEXT, g_hInst, NULL);

         SendDlgItemMessage(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_TEXT, WM_SETFONT,
            (WPARAM)GetStockObject(DEFAULT_GUI_FONT), MAKELPARAM(TRUE, 0));
      break;
      case WM_SIZE:
         if(wParam != SIZE_MINIMIZED)
            MoveWindow(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_TEXT), 0, 0, LOWORD(lParam),
               HIWORD(lParam), TRUE);
      break;
      case WM_SETFOCUS:
         SetFocus(GetDlgItem(hwnd, IDC_MAIN_TEXT));
      break;
      case WM_COMMAND:
         switch(LOWORD(wParam))
         {
            case CM_FILE_OPEN:
               DoFileOpenSave(hwnd, FALSE);
            break;
            case CM_FILE_SAVEAS:
               DoFileOpenSave(hwnd, TRUE);
            break;
            case CM_FILE_EXIT:
               PostMessage(hwnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
            break;
            case CM_ABOUT:
               MessageBox (NULL, "File Editor for Windows !\n Using the Win32 API" , "About...", 0);
         }
      break;
      case WM_CLOSE:
         DestroyWindow(hwnd);
      break;
      case WM_DESTROY:
         PostQuitMessage(0);
      break;
      default:
         return DefWindowProc(hwnd, Message, wParam, lParam);
   }
   return 0;
}


int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
   LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
   WNDCLASSEX WndClass;
   HWND hwnd;
   MSG Msg;

   g_hInst = hInstance;

   WndClass.cbSize        = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
   WndClass.style         = 0;
   WndClass.lpfnWndProc   = WndProc;
   WndClass.cbClsExtra    = 0;
   WndClass.cbWndExtra    = 0;
   WndClass.hInstance     = g_hInst;
   WndClass.hIcon         = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
   WndClass.hCursor       = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
   WndClass.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW+1);
   WndClass.lpszMenuName  = "MAINMENU";
   WndClass.lpszClassName = g_szClassName;
   WndClass.hIconSm       = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);

   if(!RegisterClassEx(&WndClass))
   {
      MessageBox(0, "Window Registration Failed!", "Error!",
         MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK | MB_SYSTEMMODAL);
      return 0;
   }

   hwnd = CreateWindowEx(
      WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE,
      g_szClassName,
      "File Editor Example Program",
      WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW,
      CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, 320, 240,
      NULL, NULL, g_hInst, NULL);

   if(hwnd == NULL)
   {
      MessageBox(0, "Window Creation Failed!", "Error!",
         MB_ICONEXCLAMATION | MB_OK | MB_SYSTEMMODAL);
      return 0;
   }

   ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow);
   UpdateWindow(hwnd);

   while(GetMessage(&Msg, NULL, 0, 0))
   {
      TranslateMessage(&Msg);
      DispatchMessage(&Msg);
   }
   return Msg.wParam;
}
Thanks for code but can anyone tell me how to make simple text field? I don't need whole code just tell where to start
I didn't mean you to copy&paste the code and it's too simple to be useful anyway, but it shows all the basics you need to create a text file editor.
If you took a second to look at the code you could also find what you want.
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