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popUpDHTMLEditor Documentation

Hi, I'm Ananda Sim. It's now 9th October 2000.

I've always wanted to do two things:

• make the Microsoft Access plain text memo field produce rich text
• have a go at making Visual Basic ActiveX Controls, ActiveX DLLs.

I've finally done that with this ActiveX .DLL.

Requirements

• Requires IE 5.x
• Requires VB6 SP4 runtimes.

How to install it

• If you do not have IE 5 or later, get this at: Welcome to the Internet Explorer Home Page!
• If you do not have Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime components get this: Q235420 - FILE VBRun60sp4.exe Installs Visual Basic 6.0 SP4 Run-Time Files
• Run the asDHTMLEdSetup.EXE program. This will install and register the .DLL.

How to use it

1. Go into the VBA IDE - Access, Excel, Word etc...
2. From the menu, select Tools, References, find and enable Ananda's VB Wrapper for DHTMLEditor OCX
3. When you press F2 (Object Browser), you should see a library called popUpDHTMLEditor.
4. There is only one class in this library called Editor.
5. There is only one member function - Show.
6. In a form where you have a textbox bound to a memo field, you can write code like this:

Private Sub txtMemoField_DblClick(Cancel As Integer)
Dim objEditor As New popUpDHTMLEditor.Editor
Dim strBuffer As String
   If IsNull(Me.txtMemoField) Then
      strBuffer = objEditor.Show("")
   Else
      strBuffer = objEditor.Show(Me.txtMemoField)
   End If
   Me.txtMemoField = strBuffer
End Sub

More Information

The Microsoft demo sample program VBEdit was the basis for this program. 

Web Workshop - DHTML Editing Component

MSDN Online Samples - DHTML Editing Control

Disclaimer

This is program is freeware. Use it at your own risk.