I have written an app, basically it searches txt files, finds hits, and displays them on screen. This has all been done so far in Tk, is very fast, and the people that I wrote it for like it.

The problem is that it's just txt, unable to do bold characters or different color characters etc. I have been asked to modify it to allow linkage, italics, bolding etc. I have searching and searching trying to find a solution for this. Ideally I want to be able to display, within a Tk window (or if I have to rewrite to Win32::Gui I will), RTF or HTML documents.

I don't want to write my own parser to display different colors (ala "richedit" example with Win32::GUI) for 2 reasons. First, I'd have to write it (laziness ;-)) and secondly - more important - I'd have to teach the people who are creating the document how to write the text files properly.

This is probably a prime canditate for web-based vs client based, but most people currently like the fact that it's in a seperate application.

Any ideas/help/pointers to a module would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to Pretty text in Win2k? by the_slycer

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