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Olecontainer to richedit

I am doing a program in which various objects are displayed in ole containers
for insertion in a richedit.
The richedit part of the program will paste objects with no problem and will
accept drag-drop objects with no problem. and it will
open them for editing via the doverb functions. All is AOK
However, when I insert them via the insertobject function,
they seem to be inserted ok. You can edit them whatever.
But when the file is saved and reopened, the object is no longer there.
Well if you click around on the page you can find the object but it is empty.
The verb menu comes up but errors out.
If the object is manually dragged with mouse after I insert it,it will be saved .
Does it sound like I missed a lot of code or is it a small matter.

BTW: If the object is inserted as a link, everything works perfect.
I really don't want to use a 3rd party richedit.
Thanks Jim

JStan

ASKER

BTW: after inserting the object, if the file is opened in another program (Wordpad),
the same thing happens. It is there but it isn't.

d003303

How does your "Insert Object" into the RichEdit work ?

JStan

ASKER

hOW ABOUT IF i SEND YOU THE CODE??
OR SHOULD i POST IT HERE.
tHIS IS MY FIRST TIME USING THIS BOARD

d003303

Yo,
if it is not too much code, post it here. Some other experts can work on it then, too.

Slash/d003303

JStan

ASKER

Here it is. This problems seems to me to be an interface problem.
But if I really knew, I might be able to fix it.
I think I sent it all.
Some of the code is in the Richedit1 which is an inherited creation of mine
because I added several functions ( linescroll, topline, curpos etc.)
If it looks like I missed some, I will post it. (If I have it)

procedure TForm1.InsertObject1Click(Sender: TObject);

begin
with MyOle do {////This is a hidden ole container. User never sees this}
if InsertObjectDialog then
begin
Richedit1.InsertMyObject;
end;
end;
end;

procedure TForm1.InsertMyObject;
var
ReObject:TReObject;
MyStg:IStorage;
ClientSite: IOleClientSite;
H: THandle;
R: TRect;
ID:Tclsid;

begin
       szAppName := StringToOleStr(Paramstr(0));
      with Richedit1 do
       begin
FRichEditOle.SetHostNames(szAppName,StringToOleStr(Richedit1.Hint));
Olecheck(FRichEditOle.GetClientSite(ClientSite));
ReObject.cbStruct := sizeof(ReObject);
ReObject.cp := REO_CP_SELECTION;
FRichEditOleCallback.GetNewStorage(MyStg);
MyOle.OleObjectInterface.GetUserClassId(ID);
ReObject.clsid := ID;
ReObject.oleobj := MyOle.OleObjectInterface;
ReObject.stg := MyStg;
ReObject.olesite := ClientSite;
ReObject.sizel.cx := 0;
ReObject.sizel.cy := 0;
If MyOle.Iconic then
ReObject.dvAspect := DVASPECT_ICON Else
ReObject.dvAspect := DVASPECT_CONTENT;
ReObject. dwFlags := REO_RESIZABLE OR REO_BELOWBASELINE;
ReObject.dwUser := 0;
FRicheditOle.InsertObject(ReObject);
R := ClientRect;
H := Handle;
ReObject.oleobj.DoVerb(ovShow, NIL, ClientSite, 0, H, R);
       end;
end;

{/////////////This function is called when the richedit is created}
constructor TRichEditOleCallback.Create(AOwner: TMyRich);
begin
inherited Create;
FOwner:= AOwner;
end;

procedure TMyRich.CreateWnd;
begin
inherited CreateWnd;
if not RichEdit_GetOleInterface(Handle, FRichEditOle) then
raise Exception.Create('Unable to get interface');
if not RichEdit_SetOleCallback(Handle, FRichEditOlecallback) then
raise Exception.Create('Unable to set callback');
end;

function TRichEditOleCallback.GetNewStorage(out stg: IStorage): HRESULT;
var LockBytes: ILockBytes;
begin
Result:= S_OK;
try
OleCheck(CreateILockBytesOnHGlobal(0, True, LockBytes));
OleCheck(StgCreateDocfileOnILockBytes(LockBytes, STGM_READWRITE
or STGM_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE or STGM_CREATE, 0, stg));
except
Result:= E_OUTOFMEMORY;
end;
end;

d003303

a bunch of declarations is missing:
TReObject, FRichEditOle, RichEdit_SetOleCallback, Richedit1.InsertMyObject and a few more.

JStan

ASKER

Yea, The prog uses :
The mainform
TMyRich which is the inherited richedit
and Richole.pas
Do you think that is too much to post??
Let me know Jim

JStan

ASKER

I will try to pull out the pertinent info and post it

d003303

Hum, best would be you mail it to me.
andreas.hahn@sap-ag.de

JStan

ASKER

Alright it is kinda bit.
I E-Mailed it to you.
Thanks
If anyone else would try to figure it out, let me know
and I will E-Mail it to you also.
Thanks- Jim

d003303

Yo,
I got your EMail and took a look at the code. Not that easy, I have to work into it this weekend.

Slash/d003303

JStan

ASKER

OK I appreciate it. I am STILL working on it also.
I bumped the points to 150.
If I had any more points I would raise it more.
Thanks for any help You can give me. It is beating me down.
Jim

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JStan

ASKER

Hey Man, You got it!!! ;-) ;-) ;-)
Do you have any idea how long I have benn pulling my hair out with this.
What you say makes perfect sense. But that's that HindSight people
talk about.
If I had more points, I would gladly give them to you.
Great work and Great Timing.
Jim

d003303

No prob. Always the same if you look at your coding over and over.

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