Looking for Text-to-HTML Formatting Component...

[Evan K. Stone]

Hello All...

We are currently looking for a server-side ActiveX DLL component which we
can use to parse a user's text input in a form and convert it to HTML, so if
a user types:

My Favorite Pies:
* Apple
* Pecan
* Blackberry

or

1. Apple
2. Pecan
3. Blackberry

....the component will generate an HTML bulleted list or numbered list
respectively, and other types of formatting would be nice too.

Or, if anyone knows of a DHTML tool to create formatted text in a WYSIWYG
display would be cool as well, since we can call the shots on what type of
browser is used in the admin tool we're creating...

t h a n k s !

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[D. Patrick Hoerter]

Evan,

Well, if you're short on time, why not just automate MSWord objects,
using the TypeText and SaveAs?

Regards,
D. Patrick Hoerter

Evan K. Stone wrote in message <3974e0bf$1@news.devx.com>...
>Hello All...
>
>We are currently looking for a server-side ActiveX DLL component which we
>can use to parse a user's text input in a form and convert it to HTML, so
if
>a user types:
>
>My Favorite Pies:
>* Apple
>* Pecan
>* Blackberry
>
>or
>
>1. Apple
>2. Pecan
>3. Blackberry
>
>...the component will generate an HTML bulleted list or numbered list
>respectively, and other types of formatting would be nice too.
>
>Or, if anyone knows of a DHTML tool to create formatted text in a WYSIWYG
>display would be cool as well, since we can call the shots on what type of
>browser is used in the admin tool we're creating...
>
>t h a n k s !
>
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[Kathleen Dollard-Joeris]

Evan,

I don't know an answer better than D. Patrick's. But when we tried this
approach with Word 97 a year or two ago we were so unhappy with it that we
wrote our own HTML converter. We could do that because we needed to support
only a limited number of tags.

--
Kathleen
(MS-MVP)
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[Colin Young]

Use IE 4+ (prefer IE5+). It has a built-in WYSIWYG DHTML editor that can be
used in a web page or in a stand-alone application. Check:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a.../ref/cncpt.asp for docs,
sample apps, etc (the link to sample apps is a little out of date, and you
will need to go to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/...ples/internet/
default.asp - you can find that link if you follow the links from the
original link I gave and now what you are looking for).

Check the VBEdit sample to start with.

Colin

"Evan K. Stone" <evan@NOSPAMmmlive.com> wrote in message
news:3974e0bf$1@news.devx.com...
> Hello All...
>
> We are currently looking for a server-side ActiveX DLL component which we
> can use to parse a user's text input in a form and convert it to HTML, so
if
> a user types:
>
> My Favorite Pies:
> * Apple
> * Pecan
> * Blackberry
>
> or
>
> 1. Apple
> 2. Pecan
> 3. Blackberry
>
> ...the component will generate an HTML bulleted list or numbered list
> respectively, and other types of formatting would be nice too.
>
> Or, if anyone knows of a DHTML tool to create formatted text in a WYSIWYG
> display would be cool as well, since we can call the shots on what type of
> browser is used in the admin tool we're creating...
>
> t h a n k s !
>
> :: e v a n k. s t o n e
> :: w e b p r o g r a m m i n g e n g i n e e r
> :: m u l t i m e d i a l i v e
> :: p e t a l u m a, c a, u s a
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>

[Evan K. Stone]

I think I found what I was looking for:

http://www.1touchASP.com/

t h a n k s !

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:: w e b p r o g r a m m i n g e n g i n e e r
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[Colin Young]

I saw your reply in the MS newsgroups and took a look at that component
myself. It looks like it will help us solve some issues we've been having
were we can't use the MS DHTML editor.

Thanks

Colin

"Evan K. Stone" <evan@NOSPAMmmlive.com> wrote in message
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> I think I found what I was looking for:
>
> http://www.1touchASP.com/
>
> t h a n k s !
>
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> :: w e b p r o g r a m m i n g e n g i n e e r
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> :: http://www.mmlive.com
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