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.net Text Editor Control

Asked by: iBlox

Hi All,

I require a text editor control to go into a .net WinForms desktop application which will save the content as HTML.

Can anybody advise / recommend a control? Or does a control like this even exist?



Best Regards

Shane

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Answers

 

by: naspinskiPosted on 2009-09-26 at 03:56:31ID: 25429457

http://www.codeplex.com/rte

It is open source and a great tool!

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-26 at 03:56:45ID: 25429458

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-26 at 03:58:46ID: 25429465

naspinski: i think Author needs winform based and not web based.

 

by: naspinskiPosted on 2009-09-26 at 04:09:13ID: 25429487

it is .net, works on both; even shows it in his demo: http://rteditor.members.winisp.net/

This is another good one:
http://freetextbox.com/download/

 

by: iBloxPosted on 2009-09-26 at 06:17:15ID: 25429769

Hi,

Thanks for your comments. I'm interested in the free one mentioned by  greenhacks

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/edit/editor_in_windows_forms.aspx.

It seems good enough for what I need it for, However the Character Returns seems to return double line spacing.... Quite annoying, do you use this? Have you altered it to remove the double lines spacing, or do you know what I need to do to achieve this? - if it wasn't for this then this would be perfect.

If I can't get this to work without double line spacing then I'm going to have to look at one of the others mentioned, guys do you know if this happens in any of the others? 

Thank you both for your help

Shane

 

by: greenhacksPosted on 2009-09-26 at 06:23:57ID: 25429781

Can you post an output of the html string which will be ofcourse in html format where i can see double line spacing.

 

by: daryalPosted on 2009-09-26 at 07:21:27ID: 25429894

Hello,
This type of controls is called wysiwyg - meaining "what you see is what you get".
Search google for .net wysiwyg editor and you will find plenty.

 

by: iBloxPosted on 2009-09-26 at 09:42:35ID: 25430297

Hi :greenhacks

The html is simply in <p> tags i.e.

<p>First Line</p>

<p>Second Line<p>

But the margin's seem to be masive so I thought I could just the document text to include a style sheet or direct put a style tag in but this doesn't appear to work. Such as:

 webBrowser1.DocumentText = "<html><head><link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='main.css' title='Cool' /><style>body{background-color:Aqua;}</style></head><body>test</body></html>";

Obviously I just thought to change the background colour to see if it had any effect.

Cheers

Shane

 

by: iBloxPosted on 2009-09-26 at 10:16:56ID: 25430428

Hi All,

I've actually sorted this; For anybody that wants to know in EditorForms.cs after the form has loaded in  public EditorForm() I added the following line;

editor.DocumentText = "<html><head><style>p{margin:0px}</style></head><body></body></html>";

I tried referencing it to a style sheet but it didn't seem to work but it did work with the inline style tag - I hope this helps somebody out.

Thanks everybody for helping me out :)

Best Regards

Shane

 

by: iBloxPosted on 2009-09-26 at 10:18:23ID: 31633886

Many Thanks

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