>Hi,
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>My users need to include formatted fonts in certain memo fields and I've tried the RTF control, but it seems inconsistent. Several memo fields were truncated and at several points, the system simply hung with an hourglass cursor displayed.
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>So.... I'm thinking maybe an HTML type editor would do the trick, but I don't want to burden the user with all the typical options available. They should only be able to highlight and format certain text. There's no need to see the source HTML code or any of the tag lists, etc.
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>Does a *simple* HTML editor exist???
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>Or is it time to write one :)
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>TIA
There is a dHTMLedit activeX control that comes kicking and screaming with IE, MSDN has documentation on how to use it. We've used it in a few applications, but ran into trouble with upgrading to IE 5.5. Users who upgrade to 5.5 have had severe problems with the control either refusing to give up focus, suddenly double spacing all of the text, or even replacing all of the HTML control characters with an alphanumeric code sequence [e.g. '<' translated to '+Ad4' or some such]. If you can be 100% sure that no users are running, or have ever in the past installed, IE 5.5, the control works fine. Otherwise, avoid it.