SimpleText is the native text editor for classic Macintosh Operating System. SimpleText allows editing including text formatting (underline, italic, bold, etc), fonts, and sizes. It can be considered similar to Windows' WordPad application. In later versions it also gained additional read only display capabilities for Macintosh-style PICT files, as well as other Mac OS built-in formats like Quickdraw GX and QTIF, 3DMF and even QuickTime movies. SimpleText can even, using Apple's PlainTalk speech system, read out text in English and record short snips of voice.
SimpleText evolved from TeachText which was used to distribute Readme documents, which was derived from the Edit application, a simple editing application distributed with the earliest of Macintoshes to demonstrate the use of the Macintosh interface.
In Mac OS X, SimpleText is replaced by the more powerful TextEdit, which reads and writes documents in Rich Text Format, RTFD (RTF with attachments) format, and Microsoft Word format, as well as ASCII, various Unicode encodings and ISO-Latin, among others and HTML, and also includes the ability to read SimpleText files as well as create and edit them through (Format>Make Plain Text) or (CMD+SHIFT+T). OS X also includes vi and pico as well as other terminal-based text editors.
Apple has released the Source Code for a Carbon version of SimpleText in the Panther (10.3) Developer Tools. If the Developer Tools are installed, it can be found at /Developer/Examples/Carbon/SimpleText/.
External links
Apple Developer Connection: The Compleat (sic) Guide to SimpleText (http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1005.html)
SimpleText evolved from TeachText which was used to distribute Readme documents, which was derived from the Edit application, a simple editing application distributed with the earliest of Macintoshes to demonstrate the use of the Macintosh interface.
SimpleText was created to integrate the many different versions of TeachText that were created by different groups within Apple.
SimpleText checks the file type of text documents to determine if they are modifiable or if they should be opened as read-only, allowing the user to scroll through the document or print its contents, but not to modify it.
SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops.
SimpleTEXT encourages users to respond to one another's ideas and build upon the unexpected chains of ideas that may develop from their input.
SimpleTEXT is a rare example of an interactive piece that works in crowded public spaces such as social and unruly atmospheres where heckling, irony, criticism, and sarcasm are common modes of communication.
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