RichEdit Component

[Ty]

I'm desperately seeking after a RichEdit type component. My requirement is to have a WYSIWYG html editor in the application I'm developing. I could go through the process of creating my own component, but don't want to reinvent the wheel if it has already been done. Does anyone know of any? Or done something similar to this before?

Thanks,
Ty.

[Vincent Snijders]

As far as I know there is not Wisiwyg editor for RTF yet. There are several viewer options:
- http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/RichView
- RTFView in Lazarus-CCR svn: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Using_the_Lazarus-ccr_SVN_repository#Directory_owners

[Dr.Theopolis]

If anyone else out there is desperate for a cross-platform richedit component, I can't help you. HAHA! So why am I posting?

If you'll settle for having your app call up an external app to do the editing, I have two ideas for you.

First, there is Abiword which is cross-platform but is pretty big and requires installation of many files.

Second, Ultimate++ is cross-platform and DOES have a rich edit component. It already comes with an example project that is a nice little editor. You can compile that example project on each of your platforms to product the executable files you'll need to execute from your Lazarus-built app.

[piper62]

Hi,

we develop an hospital information system and there's of course the need for an integration of a good textprocessing application. From my experience I can say to develop something new would be a waste of time.

We just use OpenOffice from our application modules to do the job. Because of the OpenDocument format it's not so complicated. And I think your customers will appreciate that they get something what is very close to that what they used before (normally MS programs...).

Regards,
Tibor

[Phil]

We just use OpenOffice from our application modules to do the job. Because of the OpenDocument format it's not so complicated. And I think your customers will appreciate that they get something what is very close to that what they used before (normally MS programs...).

For generating RTF documents programmatically and viewing them in an external app (such as OO), have you look at RtfDoc and ViewDoc here?

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/XDev_Toolkit

Thanks.

-Phil