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Boo Valued Contributor
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:16 am Post subject: Need a custom DLL... |
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Hi DLL Developers,
I need a custom DLL created for VDS that should not be too difficult for "those in the know." I am willing to purchase the necessary Delphi component which uses Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) technology to provide access to editing services such as basic HTML formatting, tables, undo and redo, etc. The code of the component also accesses the DHTML document object model (DOM) to add sophisticated, custom editing features to the component.
Applications created with the component should run on systems with IE 5.0 or higher. If interested, then please contact me privately off of the forum.
Thanks!
- Boo
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ShinobiSoft Professional Member
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Boo,
I have MS's DHTMLED componant, although I 've never used it. It requires
some COM programming that I am not familiar with. I try very hard to avoid
projects that require MS VC++ to compile because of the size of the
executable. I can however look into it, although I can't make any promises
at this point.
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Boo Valued Contributor
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your feedback guys.
Bill: Did you check out the component listed above? It is supposed to be quite easy to implement... Not for me, though!
Thanks,
- Boo
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ShinobiSoft Professional Member
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Boo,
That componant requires either Delphi or C++ Builder, neither of which I
have. Sorry
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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The component looks rather easy to implement however there are tons of features that would need to be added into the dll, such as adding commands to turn bold on, turn italics on, add tables, delete table cells, insert table cells, add pictures, add html controls, etc. Then adding functions to determine if bold style is on, italics, find caret position in the control etc.
It would take several hours to make a dll like that, including time to figure out how the component achieves certain task and debugging time. The dll itself would be rather easy to make, the issue would be the numerous features that need to be implemented thus taking a lot of time.
In short, it would be extremely expensive to make this extension.
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Garrett Moderator Team
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Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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You could just use the browser element and one of the activex elements
out there for turning the msie browser window into a editor.
Not sure of any links anymore, I did have quite a few of them when I
was thinking of doing an html editor, but here's a recent link that might
be of interest or help:
http://www.geocities.com/registrylord/enabledesignmode.html
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Boo Valued Contributor
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Boo Valued Contributor
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks! Yeppers, I remember that post now.
Cheers,
- Boo
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Boo Valued Contributor
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Skit3000,
Because Kevin Roth's code can be used as an online html editor (for example, as an editor for online content systems), would you be able to post some examples of how to save variables to a local file within a directory on a Web site (for example)? Also, it would be neat to be able to have the option to save to one's PC also. (Of course, this would be done without the VDS Browser extension using the html editor as an online app. within a user's own browser.)
Thanks,
- Boo
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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Search for the code below in the file demo_fullscreen.htm:
Code: | function submitForm() {
// dlgCleanUp will clean up any popups generated from RTE.
dlgCleanUp();
//make sure hidden and iframe values are in sync before submitting form
//to sync only 1 rte, use updateRTE(rte)
//to sync all rtes, use updateRTEs
updateRTE('rte1');
//updateRTEs();
alert("rte1 = " + document.RTEDemo.rte1.value);
//change the following line to true to submit form
return false;
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You can replace the "alert()" function line with a line like the one below to submit the value to the local PC (using the function I wrote [ here ]).
Code: | location.href = "output://temp?" + document.RTEDemo.rte1.value; |
Be sure to give the browser element the "nonavigate" style, so you can capture it when people submit their work...
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Boo Valued Contributor
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Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Skit. Correction in my last post. I mean't VDS Browser extension instead of vdsobj.dll. (Fixed above.)
Any examples on how to use Kevin Roth's app. and save the editor text to a file on a Web site? That is, without using the VDS Browser extension...
See Kevin's online demo here:
http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm
Thanks again,
- Boo
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