> > You what you're saying is that your current application does > not already provide any way of viewing all the comments of a > case, right?
No, What I am saying is, all of the comments and the case details are held, individualy, as html text. Each case (along with all of the relevant comments) can be viewed in the main application OR on a web browser. My original brief was for an email/web based system. > > If it did, then you should be able to simply choose the > "print" command from the browser when viewing that page of > your application. > If you are so simple as to choose to contribute to global warming and deforestation by printing out a particuar case (along with all its current comments) that is, of course, entirely possible. However, in order to do that, the tWebBrowser has to load the document completely. And in order to do that, it has to be published via a web server. Therefore a cgi publishing application is required. My application needs to WAIT while the whole request->publish->display thang occurs. This wait is no problem when a human is using their human eyes to humanly read, and their human finger to mouse~click the PRINT MenuItem. > If it doesn't, then I wonder why you're not adding that > feature directly to the application instead of trying to make > it a separate program. My new manager, as a one-off request, wants to print EVERYTHING in one go, he wants ALL of the historical data, he wants open, closed, cancelled, completed, refused and reassigned jobs complete with any comments and email correspondence neatly printed and indexed in ring binders so he can read them and collate an Excel workload report. This is incredibly slow. (remember request->publish->display?) > I assume your Web application already > has a means of displaying at least one comment on the page, > right? Can't you just use that mechanism to display many > comments on a page? > > >>> So, can one of you gurus tell me: > >>> Is there any way I can read a file directly into a tWebBrowser? > >> > >> When you call the Navigate2 command, give it a file name > instead of a > >> Web address. The URL might have to start with "file:". > > > > Once again, I would have to extract to a file first. > Something worth > > looking at tho.. Thx. > > Well, you did ask how to read a _file_, after all. I guess > what you wanted was really how to load arbitrary content into > a TWebBrowser, without necessarily having any file present at all. > *Sigh*, my bad, what I wanted to know was a way that I could convert thousands of html documents to plain text quickly. I thought I had made that plain, obviously not :( BIG thanks to Sid Guides who managed to see through my poorly formed question to point me at the html->rtf code on Torry that solved my problem exactly. > -- > Rob > Thx - Chris. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> Delphi@elists.org http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi
