Need help with Rich Text control (OpenInsight 32-bit Specific)
At 31 MAR 2003 05:26:34AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
I wonder if somebody would be so kind to help me find and implement a Rich Text control in my app? I only need it for display - no editing necessary. But it must be freeware.
- Oystein -
At 31 MAR 2003 07:23AM Revelation Software Technical Support wrote:
Oystein-
Try:
RICHTEXT.RichtextCtrl
Come with most MS products.
Hope this helps
At 31 MAR 2003 11:32AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
RevSoft Support,
Tried this some weeks ago but couldn't get it to work.
When I do get it to work - anything in particular I should be aware of? Must I/clients do anything special to get it deployed?
- Oystein -
At 01 APR 2003 07:05AM Richard Bright wrote:
Oystein,
At one stage a demo was put together - I think by Bob - which illustrated the user of three standard ocx controls - OLE_RichText, OLE_Calendar and OLE_Browser plus OLE_TESTER. Did it ger deployed to SAMPLE application - or did I put it there.
The RichText.RichText ocx has 13 properties and 5 methods.
At one stage I spent some time re-hashing the code to commuter module logic (it was all in quick events) - but lost the thread on what I was doing, so to speak.
Richard Bright
BrightIdeas New Zealand
At 01 APR 2003 07:47AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Richard,
Can't find any SAMPLE application, or any trace of Rich Text (except for Notes stuff), in 4.1.2. Is it in 4.1.3?
Here's where my previous Rich Text OCX effort ended.
- Oystein -
At 01 APR 2003 08:58PM Richard Bright wrote:
I quite understand Bob's position. It is all very well to do a demo with components from various sources to a private group, quite another matter publishing those third party components on public forum.
After my last response I revisted my work: determined what wasnt working (the OCX - because it didnt exist on my PC) and tested. Works great.
Email me - should be able to help somehow.
Richard Bright
BrightIdeas New Zealand
At 02 APR 2003 06:45AM Oystein Reigem wrote:
Richard,
I quite understand Bob's position. It is all very well to do a demo with components from various sources to a private group, quite another matter publishing those third party components on public forum.
I need something I can deploy to a couple of hundred clients without any extra cost for them. So I need a free component, or a reasonably priced one for unlimited use.
I will use the component for display, not editing. The information I want to present in the component is taken from many different fields. I will use different fonts, font sizes, styles or colours to highlight the various elements to make them stand out, making it easier for the user to visually pick out the individual elements. One simple example:
Photographer: Ole Olsen (1901-1967)
Depicted: Lars Larsen (1910-1990), Per Pedersen (1909-1941)
Come to think of it - I might perhaps do this with HTML in a web component instead of RTF. Hmm.
After my last response I revisted my work: determined what wasnt working (the OCX - because it didnt exist on my PC) and tested. Works great. Email me - should be able to help somehow.
Will do!
Even if HTML turns out to be a viable alternative I'd like to see if I can get RTF to work.
And even if my needs now are limited to display some day I might want to have an editable RTF component. Or - new idea alert! - perhaps what I'll need is not direct editing but the possiblity to launch popups/dialogs/collectors by doubleclicking elements in the component - say launch a data entry form for persons by clicking one of the names in my example above.
Thank you very much for your willingness to help me.
- Oystein -