Re: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
Thanks to all the people who answered. I couldn't wait to find the proper product so I went the shorter way. Being not a developer, I just borrowed the code from this known site, expecting that you real coders could write a finished Zope product. My needs were simple: let authorized IE-PC users to paste html-formatted text when needed and in WYSIWYG mode, while having the webmaster to pay attention to design and layout using Dreamweaver and Zope. Here you'll find the sample and the code: http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/Html-formatted%20text%20field/ There's a pending job (from the original code) and it is to enable the insert images and tables feature. Regards, Ausum David Spencer wrote: Ausum, I would suggest going to the website for Lotus Quickplace (www.quickplace.com or www.lotus.com) and signing up for a demo account. They've got a very simple word processor (bold, italics, a couple of fonts, etc.) integrated into their project sites that, I think, does what you're describing. I'm pretty sure everything is accomplished using Javascript. If you could port something like this over to zope and release it as a product, so that WYSIWYG documents can be created through the web and still incorporate standard headers and footers, I would be a very happy man. I dread trying to explain zwiki and structured text to clients. You might also want to look at standardbrains.editthispage.com. He's got an excellent, javascript-based approach to WYSIWYG editing, but you can't save it back to the site as far as I can tell. David ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
RE: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
Hi Ausum, Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc. There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just have to call it from your page. Here's the information from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know. The Manila/Frontier CMS uses it as a default and it works well. It's very handy when you have users who have basic word processor knowledge (i.e. they know enough to select text first then click a formatting button) but can't be trusted with hand coding html. Cheers Lee Hunter - - - H U M C O M M U N I C A T I O N S L T D - - - website design, content management and technical editing Ste. 147 99 Fifth Ave Ottawa ON Canada K1S 5P5 1-819-459-2511 Ausum wrote: what I have in mind, wich is a sort of simple html editor within a text field. As I said before, the only place I've seen something like that is at Hotmail. ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
Lee Hunter wrote: Hi Ausum, Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc. There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just have to call it from your page. Here's the information from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know. There was a start at a product doing this (called ZIE) by Johan Carlsson , but it looks like it was aborted quite some time ago. Dont know about its status. You could try how far it would get you, tho see: http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE hth Rik ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
Ausum, I would suggest going to the website for Lotus Quickplace (www.quickplace.com or www.lotus.com) and signing up for a demo account. They've got a very simple word processor (bold, italics, a couple of fonts, etc.) integrated into their project sites that, I think, does what you're describing. I'm pretty sure everything is accomplished using Javascript. If you could port something like this over to zope and release it as a product, so that WYSIWYG documents can be created through the web and still incorporate standard headers and footers, I would be a very happy man. I dread trying to explain zwiki and structured text to clients. You might also want to look at standardbrains.editthispage.com. He's got an excellent, javascript-based approach to WYSIWYG editing, but you can't save it back to the site as far as I can tell. David ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
RE: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
I remember reading somewhere about messaging between Java applets and JavaScript code in the browser, allowing JavaScript code from a web form to manipulate the applet output; the example was typing something into a text box, clicking a button in a form, and having that rendered in some obscure font inside the applet. Where I read this escapes me, and I've never tried this, but I wonder if such a trick works conversely. In other words, what if the applet can pass values to a JavaScript variable associated with the value of a form input element in the browser's HTML DOM? I could imagine that something like this could be very effective for certain situations where people want better through-the-web editing of code (imagine if you could edit dtml in a web form color coding syntax with a feature to collapse blocks of code, similar to Homesite 4.5, or editing python scripts -- what were python methods -- with an outline-based editor that created automatic indentation). Or, better yet, imagine running JPython within the applet (I don't know whether this is possible) to do all this. Anyway, I wonder if this type of thing could be an alternative to either ActiveX components or a XUL/XPCOM based-interface. Sean -Original Message- From: Rik Hoekstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 8:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field Lee Hunter wrote: Hi Ausum, Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc. There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just have to call it from your page. Here's the information from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know. There was a start at a product doing this (called ZIE) by Johan Carlsson , but it looks like it was aborted quite some time ago. Dont know about its status. You could try how far it would get you, tho see: http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE hth Rik ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
I'm needing a tool that could let a normal user to update a web page, HTML-formatted from a text field within a Zope's form, just like the Compose page at Hotmail, when selecting "Rich Text Format". Does anyone know how to do it? I've tried to find out the technology behind that page, but guess I didn't get too far. Thanks in advance, Ausum ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] HTML formatting from a text field
Yes I did, but I guess it doesn't work for what I have in mind, wich is a sort of simple html editor within a text field. As I said before, the only place I've seen something like that is at Hotmail. Has anyone tried to parse HTML code to Zope, from a WYSIWYG-style java applet text field? Ausum Dieter Maurer wrote: Ausum writes: I'm needing a tool that could let a normal user to update a web page, HTML-formatted from a text field within a Zope's form, just like the Compose page at Hotmail, when selecting "Rich Text Format". Does anyone know how to do it? I've tried to find out the technology behind that page, but guess I didn't get too far. Did you look at the ZWiki product (-- zope.org)? Dieter ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) ___ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
