[Gambas-user] Any (easy) way to render RTF or HTML with gambas?

Fabien Bodard gambas.fr at ...626...
Tue Jul 4 12:09:31 CEST 2017 

Maybe you can send me a source. So i can take an eyes.

2017-07-02 23:17 GMT+02:00 Fernando Cabral <fernandojosecabral at ...626...>:
> 2017-07-02 17:19 GMT-03:00 Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr at ...626...>:
>
>> Well DocumentView is just a viewer i've done for gb.report. In fact
>> it's abilities is to manages different Image in a paging style layout.
>>
>
> Starting with you example I have been able to do what I needed. I just
> deleted the part that allows the user
> to select a PDF file. Instead I put a path/filename as a constant.
>
> Only problem is that I have not found how to change font size. Even so, it
> delivers what I needed.
>
> Thank you.
>
> - fernando
>
>>
>> So this tool is good for display Documents such as pdf or reports. But
>> for those documents the libs pdf and report have a .Draw method that
>> render the image in the given DrawingArea or image container.
>>
>> For you job take a look in the gambas ide in the HelpView.class. It
>> inherit webview and give the hability to manage personnal url's. (in
>> this case "gambas://") by cheating with the error link event.
>>
>> Take a look :-). Even we generate web page on the fly for the help
>> embedded in the code source.
>>
>> 2017-07-02 19:11 GMT+02:00 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard at ...626...>:
>> > 2017-07-02 12:12 GMT-04:30 Fernando Cabral <fernandojosecabral at ...3029.....
>> >:
>> >
>> >> As to this, I think you still did not understand what I needed, which is
>> >> to render a HTML or RTF file. This has nothing to do with HTTPD or HTTP.
>> >> The RTF and HTLM file are local file. I open them and them I wanted do
>> >> display them. No protocols involved.
>> >>
>> > jajaj Fernando.. the method i described its the same you do.. but you
>> using
>> > pdf instead html
>> >
>> > just invoked a "own" localhost running inside project, same behaviour are
>> > used by the gambas IDE when you run a WEB project..
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>> i prefer the firs due all the hard work to interprete the html markup
>> are
>> >>> "let to expert".. and not hadle by own.. due will be a extra work..
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Yep. That's why  I was searching for some built in method to do it.
>> >>
>> > *     Try $hPdf.Open("pdfFIle.pdf")*
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> *     DocumentView1.Count = $hPdf.Count     DocumentView1.Refresh*
>> >>
>> > same as for html..  but changing the open call by a httpd run process in
>> > private port and send a exec to browser to open the local running httpd
>> > "own" webserver
>> >
>> > the gambas ide do the same for web projects.. rund their own embebed http
>> > web server and start a browser..
>> >
>> > instead use a embebed http webserver you can use the gb.httpd component
>> > that does/usage are the same..
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> This solves this issue for good, althou I still want to know how to do
>> the
>> >> same thing with a HTML file.
>> >>
>> > as i described.. if you want a example run a new web gambas project, and
>> in
>> > a console see the process with ps and its basically that i described...
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> To make it more concrete. Imagine there is a help file in html. When
>> the
>> >>>> user clicks on the proper button, I'll read it
>> >>>> and display it so the user can see the document. I want a method to
>> >>>> display it rendered as it would be rendered in a browser.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The editor might be able to do it. But then, I can't find instructions
>> >>>> on how to create it, load and display de text.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I have also found two lines of code that hint on the way to do it,
>> but I
>> >>>> can not learn enough from them. Says the guy:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Then in Gambas2 I have a form with Textedit1  and I add:
>> >>>> textedit1.text=file.load("filename.html")  in my form_open sub
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I would guess textedit1.text is in a form that, when displayed, will
>> >>>> render the file correctly.
>> >>>> But then again, I can't find the rest of the code.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thank you.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> - fernando
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 2017-07-02 10:07 GMT-03:00 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard at ...3029.....
>> >:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> hi fernando,, u must read as stream.. see it:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> here a example minimal: http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/lineinput
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> but i think that what do you want its "understand" the file format!
>> >>>>> right?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> due i guess rtf files have some "rich"text inside.. something in some
>> >>>>> binary/specific non ascii/plain text ...
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
>> >>>>> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 2017-07-02 7:31 GMT-04:30 Fernando Cabral <
>> fernandojosecabral at ...626...
>> >>>>> >:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> I've browsed the documentation but did not find what I am looking
>> for:
>> >>>>>> a
>> >>>>>> way do read a html (or rtf) file and display it using some built in
>> >>>>>> method.
>> >>>>>> Say, something simple like this:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> *Public Sub Main()  Dim TextFile As File  Dim RtfText As String
>> >>>>>> TextFile =
>> >>>>>> Open "~/Doc.rtf" For Read  Line Input #TextFile, RtfText
>> >>>>>> FMain.LoadText(RtfFile)  *' Here is the rub!
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> *  FMain.ShowmodalEnd*
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Regards
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> - fernando
>> >>>>>> --
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>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> Fernando Cabral
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>> >> Enquanto houver no mundo uma só pessoa sem casa ou sem alimentos,
>> >> nenhum político ou cientista poderá se gabar de nada.
>> >>
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