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Thu, 07/19/2007 - 20:53

danzman

Joined: 15/07/2007

Posts: 5

Saving FCKEditor.Value

I managed to add FCKEditor to a Delphi2006.Net application. The web application assigned the string value (from a text file). After editing the string I ran into a problem extracting the edited value back into the text file.

I did some testing and found out that the edited value is not returned (unchanged). e.g.

LongString:='This is a long string from the original file';
FCKEditor1.value:=LongString; // this works!
// i now edit the text on the FCKEditor and added the line - 'THIS IS AN ADDED LINE'

FCKEditor.value should now be: ''This is a long string from the original file THIS IS AN ADDED LINE'
But when I assigned it to a var, LongString:=FCKEditor1.value;
I still get the old value.

Is this a bug in FCKEditor or am I doing something wrong?

Thu, 07/19/2007 - 22:19

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

It's not possible in to create properties in Javascript that work in IE, so you can't read the data back with .value, you need to read the API guide and use the GetXHTML() method.

Fri, 07/20/2007 - 04:13

danzman

Joined: 15/07/2007

Posts: 5

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

I have seen the API, but being a newbie I am lost in implementing it in .NET. I see the method GetHTML but my little experience in JScript makes it difficult for me. Can you help?

Fri, 07/20/2007 - 16:26

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

it's difficult to help without a context if you don't know how to work in javascript. Usually you don't need to do anything, the editor can be used like any other server control, so you might have better luck starting with some sample in asp.net

Sat, 07/21/2007 - 04:58

danzman

Joined: 15/07/2007

Posts: 5

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

I have followed the implementation as guided by the FCKeditor/ASP.NET writeups. The program seems to work at a certain point. The only problem I need to tackle is to capture the edited text from the editor so that I can save it to a var or datatable.

If you look at Subsonic (see http://subsonicproject.com/) and run the program you can appreciate how well it uses the FCKEditor in ASP.NET. I wanted the same implementation.

Sat, 07/21/2007 - 11:14

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

If you are embeding FCKeditor in a standalone program, without a web server, then you need to talk directly to the editor with javascript and get the content with oEditor.getXHTML()

as I said, it will be quite hard to help you here unless someone appears and tell you how to call javascript from Delphi.

Sun, 07/22/2007 - 15:04

danzman

Joined: 15/07/2007

Posts: 5

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

Of course you run this application with a web server. Even in your development machine, IIS or Cassini make your desktop a web server. Having said that, the fck assembly should work like most assemblies do. I just do not know how to make FCKEditor return the edited text.

Mon, 07/23/2007 - 12:27

saul11

Joined: 19/06/2006

Posts: 633

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

Maybe you can use my ajaxPost plugin for the client side javascript and just pick the posted content up at server side with any scripting language you like, see http://fckplugins.saulmade.nl/

Thu, 07/26/2007 - 15:24

danzman

Joined: 15/07/2007

Posts: 5

Re: Saving FCKEditor.Value

Hi,
I visited your fckeditor plugin site. The plugins sure look very impressive . Will this work with ASP.NET implementation? I might just start toying with it.

As far as saving the value, I think I found the problem. It has something to do with postback issues making the old values reloaded rather than updated. It my hunch work I will keep this thread posted and close.