RE: [Pythoncard-users] FW: 75% WYSIWYG editor

Yes I believe it is the IE edit control.

If you want to write a platform-specific PythonCard program that is possible
just as it is with wxPython. You can use ActiveX wrappers on Windows; see
wxPython demo.py for an example. PythonCard tools like the Property Editor
and resourceEditor won't know anything about the control, so you'll have to
manually add the control say in the openBackground handler.

This is typical of what you need to do when PythonCard doesn't support some
feature yet that is already in wxPython. sizers, idle events, timers, etc.
are handled this way in the samples.

As we further develop the component model, it should be possible to add a
component wrapper for specific or arbitrary ActiveX/COM components. I would
prefer to concentrate on cross-platform components and issues right now, but
anyone that wants to investigate further is welcome to do so and I'll help
out with any questions they may have about the current framework.

ka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Jon
> Edwards
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:19 PM
> To: Kevin Altis; pythoncard-Users
> Cc: nj...@an...
> Subject: RE: [Pythoncard-users] FW: 75% WYSIWYG editor
>
>
> From that screenshot, it looks like Radio uses the MS IE edit control
> (perhaps embedded in the app)? Would this also be possible with Pythoncard
> (embedding the edit control in the editing form) - though, obviously, only
> on machines with IE installed?
>
> There's a good list of similar editors here -
> http://www.bris.ac.uk/ISC/cms/ttw.html
>
> Sorry Nathan, but we tried structured-text with our (non-technical) users
> and they just didn't "get" it. But they loved the wysiwyg editor (I used
> this one http://vsbabu.org/webdev/zopedev/ieeditor.html) cos it
> "Looks just
> like Word"! I guess it depends on your target-user :-)
>
> Cheers, Jon
>
> Jon Edwards
> Pricom Ltd
> www.pricom.co.uk
>
> > This is off-topic for the PythonCard mailing list, except that I
> > received an
> > interesting message from a textRouter user who uses structured-text for
> > writing HTML; textRouter is a PythonCard sample. This is not
> > really WYSIWYG
> > and I've included a screen shot of the Radio Userland 8 editor
> in WYSIWYG
> > mode to make it clear what I mean by WYSIWYG.
> >
> > However, I thought other people using textRouter and/or Zope or
> providing
> > HTML editing solutions to non-techies might be interested in
> his comments.
> > I've included his original email and a follow-up email and
> cc'ed Nathan on
> > this post in case you want to contact him directly.
>
>
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