IE as editor

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Re: IE as editor by nightwatch (Scribe) on Jul 07, 2004 at 05:34 UTC
Check out the Rich Edit Component for Internet Explorer. IE does in fact have a little-known mode that allows the browser to behave as a text editor. This ends up being more of a JavaScript problem than a Perl one.	[reply]
Re: IE as editor by jZed (Prior) on Jul 07, 2004 at 04:31 UTC
Wx has ways of creating text editors and ways of embedding IE, maybe something could be cooked up. Mozilla comes with a "composer" which lets you switch back and forth between viewing and editing a page and also lets you upload your edits.	[reply]
Re: IE as editor by NetWallah (Canon) on Jul 07, 2004 at 04:50 UTC
Several options are available - depending on the "editing" features desired. You can get simple editing using a HTML page with a form containing a text box - this would allow your copy/paste and simple insert. You can embed a link to a ms WORD DOC file, and invoke WORD via the browser, if the user has it installed. You can even make this question have some connection to perl, by serving such a HTML document via a perl program using something like HTTP::Daemon. Earth first! (We'll rob the other planets later)	[reply]
Re: IE as editor by bradcathey (Prior) on Jul 07, 2004 at 18:47 UTC
I hope I am understanding the question well enough to point out the obvious use of the built-in DHTML Editing Component that only comes with Win IE. Here's how to get it fired up (show example using HTML::Template)—no Perl—so OT: `<script type="text/javascript"> function initEditor() { Editor.document.designMode="On"; Editor.document.open(); Editor.document.write("<body><tmpl_var content><\/body>"); Editor.document.close(); } </script> ... HTML ... <iframe name="Editor" id="editor" marginheight="4" marginwidth="8" wid +th="610" height="400" align="top"></iframe>` [download] Of course, you can add a tool bar and use it's built-in calls, but warning: much of the way it styles text is antiquated HTML (I use my own javascript to make it more XHTML/CSS savvy). Anyway, that's what I've using for my CMS for a few years. I just hope Bill doesn't yank it in some future version of IE—or a bunch of CMS's will be instantly crippled. —Brad "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton	[reply] [d/l]