Here is a simple "TextEditor" control

General
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I, of course could write one, but if someone already has a drop-in custom control I could use that would be great.

  • Formatted Text Control (FTC) is too much of an over-kill for what I need

  • Something simple. A textarea, with an attached toolbar (font, size, bold/italic/underline, colors). I’ll deal with load/save as it will be to database fields, not directly to a file.

  • macOS/Windows

thanks

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Why not using StyledText with TextArea?

I don’t agree with that. FTC only needs a few pieces of code to implement the desired functions.

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of course, but what I am looking for is a simple control WITH toolbar… to just “drop in”

$150 is the “over-kill”, especially since I do not need 90% of what FTC supports.

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HTML Edit, which is in Graffiti Suite now, is a great lightweight text editor that has a built in rich text toolbar. It saves and loads HTML, which is quick and easy to store in a database. And it’s Mac / Windows cross-platform.

Hits all the points, but it’s not $free.

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never mind… I’ll write my own… Thanks

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I have one which works perfectly fine for Windows and uses MBS.

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Thanks Joost, but need both macOS/Windows and MBS isn’t part of my toolkit

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Dave,
these may help you, declares for textareas from Axel .

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AADkEdFe0Iq5dyITMtVDp1OQa/TextArea.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AABvDJhX7sNFGmdPObrUKNqSa/TextAreaClass2.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AADcB0TS7EVt6y_toi8N-QGYa/TextAreaClass3.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AACGiL7APfPS0UXudIELY_6Ca/TextAreaClass4.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AAA70T8nMLna_KvPfSwz_c67a/TextAreaLink.zip?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zhyg8v5w581zxm6/AACC6h090qJdrW4vqb6xA3kSa/TextAreaLinuxXojo.zip?dl=0

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Thanks… too bad the zip file is missing about 100 images…

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For MacOS, there is a declare which turns TextArea into a simpletext control. Of course, that was quite a while ago, and I could not find it in this forum.

I hope someone who is familiar with it will post a link.

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Michel , I actually did find exactly what you mentioned, and that would have been great except for the fact it was macOS only.

My needs are simple, and I’m almost done with a custom control that will do what I need, and works xPlat as well

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they are in this file : Dropbox - TextArea.zip - Simplify your life
the “def_icons” folder.

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my point was they were all disconnected, and after clicking thru dozens of them I had to reboot my system to get control back again…

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Here is what I created… it fits my current needs… and may or may not be of interest to anyone else
It seems to work with both macOS (mojave) and Windows 10

www.rdS.com/simpleText.xojo_xml_project.zip

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need to change the set method of the rtfData property to :

If value<>"" Then
  theTextArea.StyledText.RTFData=value
End If
reset

or I get a Nil exception on launch.
otherwise nice !

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Thanks

I think it should be

If value<>"" Then 
  theTextArea.StyledText.RTFData=value
Else
  theTextArea.Text=value
End If
reset

otherwise any existing text is not removed

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for the records, just recall this RB little module to edit texts and convert to html
http://cosmicsoft.net/RB/StyledTextToHTML
still opens with 2019r11

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I got it to open with 2012, but it did “nothing”… and 2019 doesn’t even recoginize it

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I opened it with Xojo 2015r1 and it “works” (generate the html code for the passed styled text, not an html file).

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you must drag the file to the xojo 2019 app icon to open it. not do file-open inside xojo.