With
SwitchBlade, you can create
and edit simple text documents or documents with complex formatting and
graphics. SwitchBlade highlights
a lot of features that cannot be commonly found in free (as in free beer)
software and most especially, those developed by "newbie" students
in programming. It is also built under the traditional Unix® philosophy
which states that "there is more than one way to do it."
It features the basic functions any respectable text editor could offer
such as basic text formatting, opening, saving, and creating new file
in either Simple Text format or Rich Text Format
(RTF). It also includes a custom-built dictionary function called
VoodooSpell ™ and an MS Word dependent one which
also includes a thesaurus, and an automatic document
recovery function called Deja Vu ™. All of which are all
original in concept and design. The aforementioned features may be relatively
crude compared to existing proprietary counterparts and left with minor
bugs as a direct result of its early advent as version 1.0. But nonetheless
it was created mainly as a "proof of concept",
which means it can be done, most importantly by us as second year college
students.
In addition to that, SwitchBlade
includes an interface switching function which can seamlessly switch from
a WordPad look (Sleek455 mode) to a Notepad look
(Simple mode) interface. It also includes a text-to-speech
functionality which can speak text typed on the screen and say
the buttons that you press. For purposes of customization, this function
can easily be disabled and enabled as determined by the user.
SwitchBlade
is currently free software and is available for use and
as instructional or education purposes. The complete
source is available through request from the developers.
SwitchBlade
is software developed entirely in Visual Basic 6.0. This is meant to be
a final output or project in our course requirement in CS034P
- Fundamentals of Programming II under professor Mideth
B. Abisado in the Mapúa Institute of Technology,
Makati City, Philippines
SwitchBlade is also inspired
with a philosophy in mind:
What I hear I forget.
What I see I remember.
What I do I understand.
-Confucius
Thank you! ...and oh, have fun!
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