The other day I posted on Channel9 in response to a developer that was looking for a Windows Rich Client control to do WYSIWYG HTML editing... someone suggested FCKeditor which most people thought was only usable on the web.
I came up with a hack a while back where we used it before in a desktop application coded in .NET / Windows Forms.
I created a sample project and blogged about it. I'd like to know if anyone is interested in seeing this integration go further and create a robust rich client integration with FCKeditor.
I am not sure that this is the best solution out there or if there is any desire to see a component that can be used on the windows desktop like this. Feedback welcome.
Here is the blog w/the sample:
http://hoenes.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
Wed, 04/11/2007 - 23:20
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RE: Desktop Version of FCKeditor
A local client of the FCKeditor (2.4.2), crazy idea, but works awesome. You have even open and save functioalities shipping with it + ieSpell!
Never seen my dialogs pop up so quick :p
Only the filemanager isn't working, but that's obvious I guess.
(Is it possible to have firefox as the default browser behind it?)
Overall, I'm stunned. great job!!
RE: Desktop Version of FCKeditor
I should have been more explicit in my instructions but .NET is required and you need to navigate to the WinFckEditor\bin\debug folder.
Yea--there is a lot of work that would go into making it desktop friendly ( the filemanager, the javascript dialogs could be replaced with native dialogs, etc...) I am not exactly sure of all the things that would need replacing
I'm not familiar w/Firefox's component model but I imagine they've got a way to host it just like the WebBrowser control in .NET which is just IE under the covers.