XML Spy uses the Microsoft-supplied "RichEdit" component for editing documents in the Text View. The version of RichEdit that is available in Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 is called RichEdit 2.0 and contains many known limitations.
Windows 2000 contains a new and vastly improved version called RichEdit 3.0, that not only fixes most known bugs, but also contains special support for finer Undo-Control as well as better international capabilities with foreign writing systems.
XML Spy already contains full support for RichEdit 3.0 and takes advantage of the new features, if it detects the presence of RichEdit 3.0.
Altova is a registered MCSP (Microsoft Certified Solution Provider), we are unfortunately not allowed to distribute the RichEdit 3.0 component to our customers (RichEdit is only available as part of the operating system and is not redistributable).
We are, however, allowed to suggest that if you have access to a Windows 2000 CD-ROM you should install Windows 2000 on some machine and copy the file "riched20.dll" from the Windows\System directory of that machine to the Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 98 Windows installation (thereby replacing the old RichEdit 2.0 version) that you wish to use XML Spy on.
This will get you all the benefits of RichEdit 3.0 now and will - in our experience - not cause any compatibility problems, since the RichEdit 3.0 component is fully compatible with Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0.
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