Wordpad/Notepad

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Wordpad/Notepad

Wordpad did not get added until Windows 95. Notepad was included in Windows 1.0.

Notepad is a much simpler product, it is using the basic Windows API functions.
It uses the textbox control for the content.

So if there is a problem with the word selection in it, I expect that to be a Windows issue.
I actually did some development in Windows 3.0, using MSC 5.1 and the Windows SDK. That was not fun... 100+ lines just to create a window and display it.

Wordpad is using the Microsoft RichText control to edit/display the content, so if it is working in that program, that is the reason.

My guess: The TextBox control in Windows is using some lower level API functions for selection, and there is a bug there.
The RichText control uses it's own selction functions, where the bug is not present.
Notes is using the same API calls as Notepad, probably been using the same calls since forever.

Feedback response number WEBB94XRLK created by ~Dan Kikiterobu on 02/15/2013