Quick questions here I hope you can answer...

I have htmlarea installed into a cms of mine and it works perfectly on my linux hosted site.
Now I installed the exact same setup with some slight editing for domain and such onto another site using the same CMS but on a Windows-based hosting account.

The Windows-based hosting gives me some crazy error messages about some buttons not being defined, and after it loads up, all the regular buttons are visible but there are some extra blank buttons that are all called undefined floating around the toolbar...

Are there any known windows issues for htmlarea that would do this?

Thanks in advanced, and I hope you have good luck in the future with your new htmlarea-based project :)
BTW any chance on getting a copy of htmlarea CR2?

Looks like they put up the old forums in an archiveal fashion... so read only!!!

check it out here: http://www.htmlarea.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?login_attempt=1&&first_login=1

It seems you do have to be logged in to see the forums for htmlarea 2 & 3

WooHoo!!!

Also there is a mention on the site from some guy named Dave about how HTMLArea is "discontinued & Retired" and about how they dont know if you (mishoo) are going to be continuing development, and if you were they would list your project, So, how about coming up with a new name and getting yourself listed for the New htmlarea because for some reason they keep pointing everyone over to that whazoo or whatever its called script as the next htmlarea when we know there can only be one tru HTMLArea when its written by you...

I am using the base code of HTMLArea (very well done) to create a unique essay editing enviroment for an online educational program. A request is to disable the ability to click and resize images. Is this possible?

Mihai,

Do you still want us to submit patches to sourceforge?

Will you or someone else be handling these?

I am glad that HTMLArea is remaining as a distinct project, I think it retains a strong body of users, some of whome, as you say, need support and fixes, and some who can contribute fixes.

Do you still want patch files submitting?

Sam

Okay, I know this is an topic brought up a lot. I've been wondering if anyone has interesting ideas to stop the editor from slowing down in IE after x reloads.

In my situation, closing the browser window, is unfortunately absolutely not an option. So, I needto get rid of this slowness somehow. I thought of removing every HTML element in the iframe manually, and/or all the events, etc. But I doubt it will work.

Then, there's also my other idea. I loaded the editor in an IFRAME, and when the editting was done/cancelled, I'd remove the IFRAME. No luck either. The memory is still being leaked.

I can fix so many problems in all of my plugins, and stuff. But this is the only one that simply keeps crossing my path every now and then. Maybe someone else has a creative idea which might make the problem 'less worse'?

Hi,

Firstly I would like to say thank you for HTMLarea. It is a great project and has served me well.

From what I've read you could offer a lot to the future development but can't support it.

Why not join forces with Xinha? From what I've seen they've taken the project forward and have set up a good infrastructure for support and regular updates.

Best Regards,
Adam

Hi Mihai,

First of all thanks for your great application. Very nice !
Everything works well so far but I just want to know if there is a way to get another "selected" font size (I mean that the activated default value for font size other than 3(12pt) ) in the menu and if it's possible to set pixel instead point.

Thanks for your reply

Steve

Suppose I want to generate a page in PHP that contains a htmlarea editor. Easy enough. Now suppose i have a site that for performance reasons requires static content to be served from a separate server to the PHP content (the "static" server wont be running PHP, and the PHP server shouldn't serve any images/javascript or we'll loose the performance edge that we gained by splitting the content up.) It still seems relatively easy at this point just to shift htmlarea's folder over to the static content server, and point to it from the generated PHP page. So far so good. Except that when using anything in the editor that requires a popup window, it wont be able to access the original editor because of the Same Origin Policy within javascript. Now, Mozilla.org very kindly tells us how to get around this if the 2 servers are subdomains of the same domain name - you insert the line document.domain = "mydomain.com", and thus allow script from www1.mydomain.com and www2.mydomain.com to access each others properties. Problem is, with that line added in my page (the generated PHP page), the editor never finishes loading. I've tried relocating the document.domain line to just about every one of the JS files (and all at the same time), and various locations on the calling page, all to no avail. Has anyone else had this problem, or better still - a solution? thanks bill

First of all, I must congratulate you on creating such a fine and practical product.

I've made a couple of minor modifications to the javascript code that suppresses the display of the toolbar. Essentially I use htmlArea as a container for table listings and such. Very convenient when table listings are long and scroll bars automatically appear. Display unlimited information within a predefined space. The inserted tables contain link images that a user can click on and invoke some ofther function. If the links onclick event has simple stuff such as javascript:alert('hello there') then everything works fine. If I attempt to call a defined function, such as javascript:showModalDlg(), then nothing works. Ideally, I want to call the showModalDialog function with the second parameter passed as an array, but HTMLArea does not seem to like that.

Am I running into an limitation issue with HTMLArea, or is this some sort of javascript issue that I'm encountering? Should I use some other technique to display unlimited infromation within a predefined space? Any clarification or assistance with this issue is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,  Ian Renfrew

The following is a sample display of what the HTMLArea information could look like:

The following is sample code used to display the above information:

function showModalDlg() {
  alert("showModalDlg");
return;
}
var html = "";
html += '<table>';
html += '<thead align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:steelblue; color:white; font-size:8pt;">';
html += '<td>&nbsp;</td>';
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].id) { html += '<td>' + 'Name/Id' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].type) { html += '<td>' + 'Type' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].location) { html += '<td>' + 'Attr' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].expression) { html += '<td>' + 'Expression' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].conversion) { html += '<td>' + 'Conversion' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].name) { html += '<td>' + 'Display&nbsp;Name' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].length) { html += '<td>' + 'Length' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].justification) { html += '<td>' + 'Just' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].format) { html += '<td>' + 'Format' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].sm) { html += '<td>' + 'S/M' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].association) { html += '<td>' + 'Association' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].phrase) { html += '<td>' + 'Phrase' + '</td>'; }
if (oItems.displayColumns[0].description) { html += '<td>' + 'Description' + '</td>'; }
html += '</thead>';

html += '<tr align="left" valign="top" style="font-size:8pt;">';
html += '<td align="right">';
html += '<a href="#" onclick="javascript:parent.location.href=\'mtnDictionary.html\'">';
html += '<img src="/JS4U2/images/add.gif" width="17" height="17" border="0" title="Click on image to add a dictionary entry.">';
html += '</a></td>';
html += '<td colspan="20">Click on image to add a dictionary entry.</td>';
html += '</tr>';

var color = "silver";
for (entry in oItems.item) {
  if (color == "silver") { color = "white"; } else { color = "silver"; }
  html += '<tr align="left" valign="top" style="background-color:' + color + '; font-size:8pt;">';
  html += '<td>';
  html += '<a href="#" onclick="javascript:alert(' + "'Click on image to delete dictionary: " + oItems.item[entry].id + "');" + '">';
  html += '<img src="/JS4U2/images/delete.gif" width="17" height="17" border="0" title="Click on image to delete dictionary: ' + oItems.item[entry].id + '">';
  html += '</a>';
  html += '<a href="#" onclick=' + "'" + 'javascript:window.showModalDialog("'+oSession.URL+'toolbox/mtnDictionary.html",+oSession+'),"center:yes;help:no;scroll:no;resizable:yes;status:no;edge:sunken;")' + "'" + '>';
  html += '<img src="/JS4U2/images/edit.gif" width="17" height="17" border="0" title="Click on image to edit dictionary: ' + oItems.item[entry].id + '">';
  html += '</a>';
  html += '</td>';
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].id) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].id + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].type) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].type + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].location) { html += '<td align="right">' + oItems.item[entry].location + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].expression) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].expression + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].conversion) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].conversion + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].name) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].name + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].length) { html += '<td align="right">' + oItems.item[entry].length + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].justification) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].justification + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].format) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].format + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].sm) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].sm + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].association) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].association + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].phrase) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].phrase + '</td>'; }
  if (oItems.displayColumns[0].description) { html += '<td>' + oItems.item[entry].description + '</td>'; }
  html += '</tr>';
}

html += '<tr align="left" valign="top" style="font-size:8pt;">';
html += '<td align="right">';
html += '<a href="javascript:void(null);" onclick="javascript:alert(\'hello\');alert(\'helloagain\');return false;">'
html += '<img src="/JS4U2/images/add.gif" width="17" height="17" border="0" title="Click on image to add a dictionary entry.">';
html += '</a></td>';
html += '<td colspan="20">Click on image to add a dictionary entry.</td>';
html += '</tr>';
html += '</table>';

htmlArea_setHTML('txtResults',html);

I'm running htmlarea 3 in an app which works fine on local network but when I upload to a live site htmlarea refuses to load. What's more bizarre is my firewall seems to block access to the site for a few minutes.

If I disable my firewall I can access htmlarea on an external site in the usual way.

Any ideas?

Regards

Stew