Helen,

> > > It's a common misconception that a RichEdit component is a richtext editor.
> >
> >it may be so common because it's true. :-) As the name implies,
> >TCustomRichEdit *is* a rich text editor.
>
> I disagree. TCustomRichEdit is capable of being used for rich text editing but it doesn't provide end-user editing capability.

Neither is TButton capable of being pushed by a user, unless a developer
puts up a message queue and loop to process the messages. Component
capabilities are not determined by what the user can do, but rather by
what the programmer can do with them.

In my view you just can't disagree on this, but you are of course free
to do it. ;-)
Ciao
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