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Posted by dan7000
Jun 5, 2008 at 08:17 PM
Yeah, when I follow these steps, I get a blank page (my previous HTML content disappears).
I cannot click or type in the MHT “pane” after converting.
However, when I click the “W” icon, Word launches and it shows my previous HTML content.
But, if I make changes in Word and save the file, then when I go back to SQLNotes, I see in the MHT pane a huge amount of HTML-style tags (multiple pages worth).
Even more confusing, if I now click to select a different item in the grid, the MHT pane does not refresh: I see the same mess of HTML tags regardless what item I select.
So the upshot is: in MHT mode, I can never see or edit my MHT content from within SQLNotes. I can, of course, see and edit the content if I launch word, but that pretty much defeats the purpose of an integrated information manager, no?
A suggestion: why don’t you just use the Microsoft Rich Text control? Doesn’t that support embedded pictures? If not, ssn’t there also a “Superpad” sample app that comes with Visual C++ (or whatever it’s now called) that gives you the entire code for Wordpad?
While we’re on the topic: my preference would be to have a rich text pane like you have now, but that also served as an OLE client, supporting OLE embedded documents. That way, I could not only drop in a picture, I could also drop in an embedded excel spreadsheet or powerpoint presentation (or any of hundreds of other OLE server-enabled documents). This, to me, would be a final OneNote killer, because even OneNote can’t embed a spreadsheet. Just an item for the wishlist.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 5, 2008 at 08:26 PM
Are you using 0.9.23.4b (the latest version) ?
Posted by dan7000
Jun 5, 2008 at 09:34 PM
I’m on 9.23.0 - I’ll download the new one [and sorry to everyone for hijacking the thread]
Posted by Derek Cornish
Jun 6, 2008 at 03:11 PM
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>Regarding MHT files, they natively only display in IE. FF can view them using the MAF
>extension: http://maf.mozdev.org/http://maf.mozdev.org/
Pierre (and Dan7000)
I don’t think MAF being developed any more. The last version was for FF1.5, although it could be kludged to run on FF2.x. The URL you both seems out of date.
Have you tried using the unMHT extension? http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html
I’ve been using it for some time. I don’t know if it will solve Dan7000’s problems, though.
There are a lot of advantages to using MHT (and a lot of IE users), so don’t be too quick to dump it :-).
Derek
Posted by Ken Ashworth
Jun 6, 2008 at 03:56 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am in the process of developing a sales manual for my colleagues, and I’d
>like some advice from this knowledgable group about what software to create it with.
>
>
>This manual would consist of a full set of product descriptions for the 90 books we
>sell. I’d like my colleagues to be able to sort by author, price, product number, and
>audience each book is targeted toward.
>
>There will also be a section for sales
>policies, shipping fees and other information.
>
>I want to be able to create this in a
>no-brainer, run-time style program so that no matter how computer savvy (or not), my
>colleagues can use it. Finally, it can’t be expensive—which means I can’t have to
>purchase a license for each colleague.
>
Stephen,
I don’t recall your feels on Ultra Recall but it seems well suited to the task at hand. Since you have indicated that you will be developing the database, the free UR Viewer could be employed for distribution.
The Viewer does allow for printing, and allows the user to insert columns in the Child Pane for sorting or these could be defined during development. Also, you could define a number of searches based on your catagories if you wanted to eliminate the need for user interaction.
Additionally, the Tree View of the Data Explorer is easily understood.