No HTML Rich Text Editor?

[Ian Skinner-3]

I'm taking some down time to work with some of the new technology.  
ColdFusion Flash Forms and Flex with ColdFusion.

My play project is an updated editor for a private web site's simple,
homegrown content management system.  But the first major hurdle I am
running in is that apparently there is no Flash|Flex based HTML Rich
Text Editor?  I played with the HTML, FKEditor based HTML editor in
ColdFusion 8 and it looks interesting, but it does not work in a Flash
based form.  This makes it incompatible with the Flash based tab and
accordion form navigation features of which I also want to make use.

So then I broke out my Flex 2 Editor that I have not had a chance to use
for a year, but it also does not contain any type of HTML Rich Text
editor control.  I have started searching Google to see what might be
out there, but my first try was not encouraging.  I found a post that is
a couple of years old that talks about one possible product, but it
seems to run about $70.  A bit pricey for a play time project just to
practice coding techniques.

Anybody have know of any other options along these lines?

Thank You
Ian


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P.S.

If it matters, I am currently limited to Flex 2 and ColdFusion 8.  No
Flash CS3 or Flex 3 or anything newer.

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[snake-3]

Have you tried the ASFUSION site, that's the sort of thing they might have
there.

Russ

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From: Ian Skinner [mailto:HOF@...]
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Subject: No HTML Rich Text Editor?

I'm taking some down time to work with some of the new technology.  
ColdFusion Flash Forms and Flex with ColdFusion.

My play project is an updated editor for a private web site's simple,
homegrown content management system.  But the first major hurdle I am
running in is that apparently there is no Flash|Flex based HTML Rich
Text Editor?  I played with the HTML, FKEditor based HTML editor in
ColdFusion 8 and it looks interesting, but it does not work in a Flash
based form.  This makes it incompatible with the Flash based tab and
accordion form navigation features of which I also want to make use.

So then I broke out my Flex 2 Editor that I have not had a chance to use
for a year, but it also does not contain any type of HTML Rich Text
editor control.  I have started searching Google to see what might be
out there, but my first try was not encouraging.  I found a post that is
a couple of years old that talks about one possible product, but it
seems to run about $70.  A bit pricey for a play time project just to
practice coding techniques.

Anybody have know of any other options along these lines?

Thank You
Ian




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[Ian Skinner-3]

Snake wrote:
> Have you tried the ASFUSION site, that's the sort of thing they might have
> there.
>
> Russ

Thanks Russ, I just looked over the ASFusion site and could only find
one entry about a Rich Text Editor,
http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/rich-textarea-for-flash-cfforms.  
Unfortunately all the links in the entry to the actual editor seem to be
dead.

Ian

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[Jeffry Houser]

 Don't waste any time w/ Flash Forms in CF.  They have all but been
abandoned now that the Flex framework is free.

 There is a Flex based Rich Text Editor; it just sucks when compared to
the functionality offered by HTML based Rich Text Editors.

 Drumbeat Insight has a Flex HTML Editor component; I suspect that is
the one you mention below.  I thought it used an iFrame trick to pop in
an HTML Editor on top of the Flash swf.

 Other than that, there isn't anything you can do [that I'm aware of].

Ian Skinner wrote:

> I'm taking some down time to work with some of the new technology.  
> ColdFusion Flash Forms and Flex with ColdFusion.
>
> My play project is an updated editor for a private web site's simple,
> homegrown content management system.  But the first major hurdle I am
> running in is that apparently there is no Flash|Flex based HTML Rich
> Text Editor?  I played with the HTML, FKEditor based HTML editor in
> ColdFusion 8 and it looks interesting, but it does not work in a Flash
> based form.  This makes it incompatible with the Flash based tab and
> accordion form navigation features of which I also want to make use.
>
> So then I broke out my Flex 2 Editor that I have not had a chance to use
> for a year, but it also does not contain any type of HTML Rich Text
> editor control.  I have started searching Google to see what might be
> out there, but my first try was not encouraging.  I found a post that is
> a couple of years old that talks about one possible product, but it
> seems to run about $70.  A bit pricey for a play time project just to
> practice coding techniques.
>
> Anybody have know of any other options along these lines?
>
> Thank You
> Ian
>
>
>

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[Ian Skinner-3]

Jeffry Houser wrote:
> Drumbeat Insight has a Flex HTML Editor component; I suspect that is
> the one you mention below.  I thought it used an iFrame trick to pop in
> an HTML Editor on top of the Flash swf.
>  
Drumbeat Insight is not where I was before, I was at Flashloaded
[http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/flashtexteditor/?id2=3700357].  
I just looked at Drumbeat's website and I did not see an editor.  I saw
a Flex component that allowed one to include HTML into a Flex
application, but that is not my requirement, did I over look an editor
component?

>  Other than that, there isn't anything you can do [that I'm aware of].

That seems to be the consensus from my Google searching this morning.  
I've found lots of discussion and lamentation on the lack of any such
control, but no solution in the last two plus years.

I've been playing with basic 'rich text area' control and I learned I
can get HTML from the htmltext property, but it is fairly poor html.  I
may need to make use of this though.  Luckily my CMS is very simple and
I only really need italics, bold, links and lists.  Most of that seems
to be in the rich text area control.  I just need to develop a cleaner
to improve the output generated with it.

But I was first looking at attaching some CSS style to this control so
that the text it shows looks a little more like it should.  But I
haven't found how to do that yet.


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[Jeffry Houser]

 I Was referring to their HTML component for Flex; specifically this
example of it:

http://drumbeatinsight.com/examples/htmlcomponent/editor/HTMLWithRTE.html

Ian Skinner wrote:

> Jeffry Houser wrote:
>  
>> Drumbeat Insight has a Flex HTML Editor component; I suspect that is
>> the one you mention below.  I thought it used an iFrame trick to pop in
>> an HTML Editor on top of the Flash swf.
>>  
>>    
> Drumbeat Insight is not where I was before, I was at Flashloaded
> [http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/flashtexteditor/?id2=3700357].  
> I just looked at Drumbeat's website and I did not see an editor.  I saw
> a Flex component that allowed one to include HTML into a Flex
> application, but that is not my requirement, did I over look an editor
> component?
>
>  

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[Ian Skinner-3]

Jeffry Houser wrote:
>  I Was referring to their HTML component for Flex; specifically this
> example of it:
>
> http://drumbeatinsight.com/examples/htmlcomponent/editor/HTMLWithRTE.html\

Thanks, I did not dig into the HTML Component to see that it had an
editor configuration.  That is defiantly the best option I have seen so
far, as I said before I liked the FKEditor but was sad that I could not
integrate it with other Flex|Flash form features such as tab controls.

I'll definatly keep this in mind if I ever have a paid purpose for a
HTML Rich Text editor.

For now, I'll continue with my minimal but free built in version as I
develop my Flex & ColdFusion skills.


Thanks
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[Jeffry Houser]

 I guess it is worthy to keep in mind that if you have advanced HTML;
there is no good way to display it in a Flex app.
 I'm under the impression that most people who use the Drumbeat Insight
component use it in an administrator for an HTML app.  ( Flex for data
management; HTML for display ).  I could be wrong about that, though.

Ian Skinner wrote:

> Jeffry Houser wrote:
>  
>>  I Was referring to their HTML component for Flex; specifically this
>> example of it:
>>
>> http://drumbeatinsight.com/examples/htmlcomponent/editor/HTMLWithRTE.html\
>>    
>
> Thanks, I did not dig into the HTML Component to see that it had an
> editor configuration.  That is defiantly the best option I have seen so
> far, as I said before I liked the FKEditor but was sad that I could not
> integrate it with other Flex|Flash form features such as tab controls.
>
> I'll definatly keep this in mind if I ever have a paid purpose for a
> HTML Rich Text editor.
>
> For now, I'll continue with my minimal but free built in version as I
> develop my Flex & ColdFusion skills.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
>

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[Ian Skinner-3]

Jeffry Houser wrote:
>  I guess it is worthy to keep in mind that if you have advanced HTML;
> there is no good way to display it in a Flex app.
>  I'm under the impression that most people who use the Drumbeat Insight
> component use it in an administrator for an HTML app.  ( Flex for data
> management; HTML for display ).  I could be wrong about that, though.

And that would be my purpose.  Use the Flex for the back end content
administration of a otherwise fairly straight forward HTML site.

It's just that the content author(s) have a need for basic text
formating such as bolding, italics and lists as well as links.  And they
do seem to prefer a WYSIWYG type editor, even though they currently have
to manually type in the HTML tags into the plain vanilla HTML text area.



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[Stefan Richter-3]

Hi all,
I'm using this in my Application.cfc:

<cferror type="exception" template="errorexception.cfm">
<cferror type="request" template="errorrequest.cfm">

Works fine if the page that throws the error is in the root of my  
site. But if a file in /includes throws an error I get:
Error attempting to resolve the template errorexception.cfm.

Short of inserting the absolute URL what options do I have? I'd like  
to use a relative path, but how would that work when I do not know in  
which subdirectory the error will occur?

Sorry if this is obvious to seasoned CFers but I couldn't figure it out.


Regards,

Stefan



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[Jeffry Houser]

 Would this work?

<cferror type="exception" template="/errorexception.cfm">
<cferror type="request" template="/errorrequest.cfm">



Stefan Richter wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm using this in my Application.cfc:
>
> <cferror type="exception" template="errorexception.cfm">
> <cferror type="request" template="errorrequest.cfm">
>
> Works fine if the page that throws the error is in the root of my  
> site. But if a file in /includes throws an error I get:
> Error attempting to resolve the template errorexception.cfm.
>
> Short of inserting the absolute URL what options do I have? I'd like  
> to use a relative path, but how would that work when I do not know in  
> which subdirectory the error will occur?
>
> Sorry if this is obvious to seasoned CFers but I couldn't figure it out.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
> email: stefan@...
> web: www.flashcomguru.com
> twitter: @stefanrichter
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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[Dave Watts]

> I'm using this in my Application.cfc:
>
> <cferror type="exception" template="errorexception.cfm">
> <cferror type="request" template="errorrequest.cfm">
>
> Works fine if the page that throws the error is in the root of my
> site. But if a file in /includes throws an error I get:
> Error attempting to resolve the template errorexception.cfm.
>
> Short of inserting the absolute URL what options do I have? I'd like
> to use a relative path, but how would that work when I do not know in
> which subdirectory the error will occur?

You can use mappings created in the CF Administrator. Any path
beginning with a slash uses a mapping. Mapped paths can be resolved
from any script on the server.

Also, instead of using CFERROR for exceptions, you might also consider
using the onError event handler in Application.cfc.

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[Stefan Richter-3]

Thanks,
I tried that but it didn't work. I guess I need to use mappings as  
suggested by Dave.

Regards,

Stefan





On 16 Feb 2009, at 01:50, Jeffry Houser wrote:

>
> Would this work?
>
> <cferror type="exception" template="/errorexception.cfm">
> <cferror type="request" template="/errorrequest.cfm">
>
>
>
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm using this in my Application.cfc:
>>
>> <cferror type="exception" template="errorexception.cfm">
>> <cferror type="request" template="errorrequest.cfm">
>>
>> Works fine if the page that throws the error is in the root of my
>> site. But if a file in /includes throws an error I get:
>> Error attempting to resolve the template errorexception.cfm.
>>
>> Short of inserting the absolute URL what options do I have? I'd like
>> to use a relative path, but how would that work when I do not know in
>> which subdirectory the error will occur?
>>
>> Sorry if this is obvious to seasoned CFers but I couldn't figure it  
>> out.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> email: stefan@...
>> web: www.flashcomguru.com
>> twitter: @stefanrichter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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[Stefan Richter-3]

Thank you, I will try mappings.

onError is on my list of things to try, I'm just working through all  
the options to familiarise myself with them.

Cheers

Stefan




On 16 Feb 2009, at 02:55, Dave Watts wrote:

>
>> I'm using this in my Application.cfc:
>>
>> <cferror type="exception" template="errorexception.cfm">
>> <cferror type="request" template="errorrequest.cfm">
>>
>> Works fine if the page that throws the error is in the root of my
>> site. But if a file in /includes throws an error I get:
>> Error attempting to resolve the template errorexception.cfm.
>>
>> Short of inserting the absolute URL what options do I have? I'd like
>> to use a relative path, but how would that work when I do not know in
>> which subdirectory the error will occur?
>
> You can use mappings created in the CF Administrator. Any path
> beginning with a slash uses a mapping. Mapped paths can be resolved
> from any script on the server.
>
> Also, instead of using CFERROR for exceptions, you might also consider
> using the onError event handler in Application.cfc.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
>
> Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized
> instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta,
> Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location.
> Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information!
>
>

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