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midiway on "last Sciter2 SDK issues"

midiway — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:41:15 +0000

hi andrew

In Sciter2 you can create a snapshot image of a given DOM element with this: var snapshot = new Image(w, h, my_element);

#1 - as I noted, it will make a copy of the DOM element and resize it to the given width and height parameters right?

#2 - if you run the following test, you will note that the created Image is cutting some pixels, from the right and bottom, of the expected snapshot (there shouldn't be a white line between the clones):

<html>
<head>
  <style>
	#source
	{
		size: 150px;
		background-color: blue;
		border-radius: 10px;
	}

	#clone1
	{
		size: 150px;
		background: url(dyn:source-img);
	}

	#clone2
	{
		size: 150px;
		background: url(dyn:source-img);
	}
  </style>

  <script type="text/tiscript">
	self.post( function() {
		var (w,h) = self#source.box(#dimension);
		var img = new Image(w, h, self#source);

		self.bindImage("dyn:source-img", img);
	});
  </script>
</head>

<body>
	<div #source />
	<div #clone1 />
	<div #clone2 />
</body>
</html>

midiway on "Sciter applicable as a modal dialog?"

midiway — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:26:28 +0000

My application will have a modal dialog box as the about/credits area, that is, a HWND created with DialogBox() win32 function.

I want it to be entirely Sciter2 based, but now I am stuck because I had always create Sciter windows with CreateWindowEx passing the Sciter class string.

My workaround will be creating the modal dialog and passing every message from my DlgProc to SciterProcND() function.

Sicter2 is supposed to receive a WM_CREATE message to start the engine right? can it be replaced by a WM_INITDIALOG message?

kagachiu on "AxHTMLayout double-byte input problem"

kagachiu — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:11:53 +0000

Hi!

In using AxHTMLayout VB example
I found that All text field with double-byte characters input method (for example: Chinese characters) will output a correct word with 2 extra random byte after it.
But everything will just fine if using Copy'n Paste method only.
Also this will not happen in SDK include example mfc_browse.exe, win32.exe or browse.exe.
So, I believed that there is something wrong in AxHTMLayout.dll with double-byte IME
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with C++! So, can you give me a hint how to fix this?
I already using the newest AxHTMLayout.dll and htmlayout.dll

Please excuse my poor english and thank you in advance!

vincent on "windows ce sh4 version"

vincent — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:49:26 +0000

Is there a window ce sh4 version? I very much need, thank you

zxzvo on "HTMLayout richtext editor"

zxzvo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:01:23 +0000

These days I am quite busy in incorporating in a application a simple, yet powerful HTML editor based on htmlayout richeditor.
I have following remarks/questions.

1. Occasional AV on pasting in browse exe, for instance HTMLayout page (http://www.terrainformatica.com/htmlayout/main.whtm) copied in clipboard from Chrome, hanged the application. Some other AV were triggered by some accidental select-and-drag operation in the widget.

2. Horizontal bar is not updated as expected. To see, replace in your richtext editor sample, the initial contents of the richtext

<p>Hello world!</p>

with something like

<table border="1" width="1000"><tr><td>Hello World!</td></tr></table>

The expected overflow behavior, either scroll or auto does not calculate the area as 1000 as I expect or as HTMLayout does.

3. Rulers are for information only purposes? The resize arrows do not update in any way the referenced contents. Or rulers are just for information and selection purposes? In this case the cursor is more appropriate to be settled to default.

4. Are they any possibilities in changing rulers colors? or richtext widget default large margin? With other words, do I have access to any dom component of the widget?

5. About the stack list of the current objects. Can I setup the bar to select the elements? Are they any possibilities in exploring the current objects and settle extra attributes? As the inserted table showed above, can I set the width by style or by changing width attribute? For me would be great to be (programatically) able to change the attribute of the last element from the stack, except when multi selection makes no sense in applying it. Idea is to be able to set, for instance, the width and height of an inserted image, the table columns/rows, to add extra attributes, etc.

thank you

Redserpent7 on "Windows 8 and href"

Redserpent7 — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:42:34 +0000

I am testing my software on windows 8 to see if there are any problems. I know the RC is yet to come out but on the Customer Preview version I am facing a problem with <a> tags and internal href.

for example I have this link in one of my pages:

<a id="DOSTART" href="MYCOMMAND:GOTOPAGE:START">START</a>

it seems that in windows 8 MS has done something that tries to control all links clicked in a any software, probably to handle METRO apps.

Every time I click on the link above windows prompt me with a message stating "No apps are installed to open this type of link (mycommand)"

I never had a problem in previous versions of windows as I've been using the same method for years.

Is this a known issue that will be fixed soon? or is there a way to get around it using current builds of htmlayout?

Regards

midiway on "how to make a element focusable?"

midiway — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:08:06 +0000

as the title says, I want a given element to participate in the focus handling mechanism, so when I press TAB it get the focus

also, as I am working with a DIV element, it needs to know when it get the focus, so this CSS rule must be applied:

div#myFocusWidget:focus
{
}

and also its internal FOCUS state must be set:

assert(self#myFocusWidget.states.focus == true)

BTW, I can imagine how tricky is focus handling, you know, just see how Windows must cheat with IsDialogMessage()

midiway on "Sciter2 Graphics.Path"

midiway — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:55:18 +0000

How to clone a given Graphics.Path instance?

What is the purpose of Graphics.FILL_ONLY, Graphics.STROKE_ONLY, Graphics.STROKE_AND_FILL and Graphics.FILL_BY_LINE_COLOR constants? drawPath() has no parameters for those flags and Graphics class has no property for it.

midiway on "Sciter2 DLL does not exports TIScriptAPI()"

midiway — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:37:21 +0000

TIScript has the TIScriptAPI() exported function which exposes its entire native functionality

I am using some of the TIScriptAPI functions, but my linker says:
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__TIScriptAPI@0

Well, my applicatio is using Sciter2, and Sciter2 is linked against TIScript source code right? so it should be exporting it..

I checked with Dependency Walker, and Sciter2 DLL really is not exporting it. However, Sciter1 DLL has this export.

heiko07 on "Reducing size of htmlayout dll"

heiko07 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:24:17 +0000

Hi Andrew

Any tips/pointers on how to reduce size of htmlayout.dll ?

I switched off SVG_SUPPORT, JPG_SUPPORT, BMP_SUPPORT, ACCESSIBLE, RICHTEXT, PRINTEX_SUPPORT

Got final htmlayout.dll to 650kb (with UPX Ultra-Brute)

Are there any other features that I could possibly switch off, if not used.
Other defines, or functional/modular components that I might not need.

(Building with Visual Studio 2010, Htmlayout version 3.3.3.8)

tnx,
Heiko

midiway on "Sciter2 scripting - Graphics linear gradient with multiple colors stop"

midiway — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:50 +0000

andrew

As of the last preview version of Sciter2, in script, you can specify a linear gradients (for fill and line) with only 2 colors, that is, the starting and ending color

I think in Sciter1 you could make a gradient with multiple colors using the native 'sciter-x-graphin.h' API, but not through scripting.

I would be fine if I could also do it in Sciter2, with a native interface. Or better, make it possible through scripting by having overloaded forms for Graphics.fillLinearGradient() and Graphics.lineLinearGradient(), or with different names

I am not sure why you removed the 'sciter-x-graphin.h' API from Sciter2. I guess that Sciter2 is now entirely based on Direct2D, so you dropped the AntiGrain library cause it is not hardware accelerated.

midiway on "redone ColorChooser / popup bug"

midiway — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:01:04 +0000

Hi andrew,

I reimplemented the color-chooser (the behavior-based input found on Sciter1 and HTMLLayout) for Sciter2 cause it wasnt really working. So you might want to get it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1515790/ColorChooser.zip

However theres still a bug happening with Sciter2 popups:
-run the test in sciter.exe
-shrink the main window to make it very small with only the input button fitting on it
-now click the input and note that some squares are not visible, however if you click on the spots where they are supposed to be, it still changes the color

ThePLERKS on "Help on HTMLayout ActiveX"

ThePLERKS — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:00:59 +0000

Hello,

I'm ThePLERKS i'm newbie. I'am using a HTMLayout with an ActiveX Control (OCX) on a Visual Foxpro 9. I'am able to view the HTMLayout samples but I don't know how to fetch the data on a certain control. for example the h-sliding-bar.html, how do i get the properties on an element,so i would know if one of the <li> tags are expanded.
I tried putting codes on the Click Event. It didn't work plus it doesn't return to my form. Here's my code on the Click Event. (&&- Comments)

LOCAL i as Integer, obj as Object
obj = This.Document.All
FOR i = 0 TO obj.Count -1
 IF alltrim(UPPER( obj.Item(i).TagName ))$"LIli" THEN && Checks for li tags
  IF This.Document.All.Item(i).GetElementState= 512 && hlStateExpanded
   = messagebox("First Tag is Expanded")
  endif
  EXIT && Just to Stop at the first li tag
 endif
next

Please HELP
Thank you
The PLERKS

nel50n on "Absolute positionning inside cell in a grid"

nel50n — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:09:39 +0000

Sorry if it's obvious for you, but how can I set an absolute position to a child of a cell (td) inside a "grid" ?

I should mention that the td is in a "grid" that scrolls, so if I set 'position: relative;' to this td style, I get weird results in row selection (rows at the end of the grid can't get 'current' state by mouse click).

nel50n on "fisheye at bottom"

nel50n — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:44:14 +0000

Since one of the last updates, fisheye (behavior:magnifier) at the bottom don't work as before : items are magnified downwards where they was magnified upwards.

See HTMLayoutSDK\html_samples\fisheye\magnifier-left-bottom.htm in browser.exe

Is there a workaround ?

stunguy on "Oracle/Informatica Certification"

stunguy — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:26:30 +0000

Hi all,

currently i am working as developer in Informatica technology.
i would like to do certifications in my domain.
but i have confusion in my next level of my career.

INFA/DBA--which one is better ?in all aspects-salary/scope/opportunities?

Pl help me for the same.

midiway on "problem: handling MOUSE_CLICK on native behavior"

midiway — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:41:27 +0000

This problem applies to your last Sciter 2 preview release

I have an instance of this C++ native class:

class SciterEventHandler
  : public sciter::event_handler
{
  virtual bool handle_mouse(HELEMENT he, MOUSE_PARAMS& params) override
  {
     if( params.cmd==MOUSE_CLICK )
     {
       // GOOOOD! received mouse click event
       // BUT it isn't working on Sciter 2
     }
  }
};

And it is naturaly attached to a DOM button element listening to its mouse events.

In Sciter 1 the condition params.cmd==MOUSE_CLICK would eventually evaluate to true when the element was clicked, but in Sciter 2 I am not receiving this exactly value, but rather a combination of flags that I am not able to recognize.

nel50n on "set_html() on tbody"

nel50n — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:44:45 +0000

Seems like set_html() (C++ API) doesn't have any effect on rendered HTML on a tbody element (nor on a thead).

I use a layout like this :

<body>
  <table>
    <thead></thead>
    <tbody></tbody>
  </table>
</body>

then I fill the tbody element via set_html() with an utf8 string containing tr and td tags. Nothing happen.

1. If I use the same utf8 string with set_html() on the table element, it works.
2. If I load a layout already containing tr and td tags in the tbody element, it works.

Have I missed something, or... ?

rlim on "Position: popup;"

rlim — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:52:20 +0000

Is there a way to position popup back to position absolute or position static? I would like to use move and re-inject the elements back into the original containing element. For instance, a <div id=target><img id=moved/></div>, if I use the TIScript move on the '#moved' element. Could I put the element back into target so that target treats it like a static element?

nel50n on "how to update style section at runtime"

nel50n — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:19:04 +0000

Dear Andrew,

I need to update the content of some style tag at runtime without reloading the entire html source.

I can call set_text() on the 'style' element, but this do not update the rendered html, even if i call update() explicitely.

Is there a way to achieve that ?

midiway on "2 problems"

midiway — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:53:55 +0000

1. your last Sciter 2 tech-preview release has some problem with the value returned by ::SciterClassName(), the return should be an already created Window class name, but it seems not:

C++ :
WNDCLASSEX clsdata;
PCTSTR clsname = ::SciterClassName();

HMODULE h1 = ::GetModuleHandle(nullptr);
HMODULE h2 = ::GetModuleHandle(L"sciter32.dll");

BOOL r1 = ::GetClassInfoEx(h1, clsname, &clsdata);
BOOL r2 = ::GetClassInfoEx(h2, clsname, &clsdata);

r1 and r2 will be equal to FALSE. I had it working in previous versions of the tech-preview

2. In Sciter 1 it was possible to have a child Sciter window, set its <html> node CSS background as 'transparent', and it would render transparently, showing the content of its parent window, but it doesnt seems to work in Sciter 2

zmuder on "How can I do?"

zmuder — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:29:00 +0000

How can I implement this effect use HTMLAYOUT?
http://club.injy.net/attachment/Mon_1203/73_1_5f21bbc19045992.gif?5

Redserpent7 on "Handling WM_PASTE"

Redserpent7 — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:17:18 +0000

Im using htmlayout to create a sort of an "enter a serial number" dialog where it consists of 5 different text edit boxes. I need to handle the windows paste message so I can redistribute the clipboard text into the edit boxes and not just paste the text into the box that has focus.

I am trying to handle the WM_PASTE message but it seems my dialog is not receiving the message and my guess is that HTMLayout is handling the message by it self. Is there a way to let htmlayout skip handling the message and pass it to its child dialog.

Regards

joseph on "need help for input type file-path"

joseph — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:26:22 +0000

I useing this code to find the file-path the user choosed.
but it don't work, can anyone help me?
here is my code
//**********************************************************
element em = e.get_element_by_id("file_path");
value v = em.get_value();
cout<<v.to_string().c_str()<<endl;
//***********************************************************
it print like this "0114B0DC"
can anyone give me some example to do this?
thanks!

zxzvo on "TR / ROWSPAN issues"

zxzvo — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:16:34 +0000

It seems that rowspan of a tables influences the print measurements.
The htmlayout control does a good job, but htmprint gives unexpected results. (empty pages, wrong positioning next page, etc)

Also rowspans can break styling of the row. (I've noticed on background-color at least).

What styling-attributes are accepted by TR and propagated to TD?

otto on "Button presses on custom control hangs application"

otto — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:24:18 +0000

Hello.

I'm integrating HtmLayout into MFC GUI app where we have some complex dialog based controls which we don't want to reimplement in html.
So, i'm using custom HWND based control derived from MFC's CDialog in HtmLayout page. My window attached on HLN_CREATE_CONTROL notification and looks fine. Some elements, like tree views end edit fields, of my custom control works correct, but button presses hangs main window - it stops respond to any user inputs. I think there something wrong with windows messages routing, but can't find reason and seek for advice.

midiway on "sciter2 expandable bg slowness"

midiway — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:52:00 +0000

hi andrew, I see that Sciter2 is not ready yet, though I am very excited by following your preview releases, and so I might help reporting some bugs on things that I found that are supposed to be working

CSS expandable background are extremely slow, processor usage goes to 100% when rendering this simple example:

<html>

<head>
	<style>
		body
		{
			margin: 0;
			background-image: url(start_glow.png);
			background-repeat: expand;
			background-position: 41px 41px 41px 41px;
		}
	</style>
</head>

<body>
</body>

</html>

grab here (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1515790/sample.zip) a zip with the html + images

ixia on "Adding items dynamically to a Tree"

ixia — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:51:18 +0000

I'm adding items (options) dynamically to a tree.

<widget type="tree" checkmarks=""  treelines="">
	<option expanded="true" >Dir
		<option >SubDir1</option>
		<option >SubDir2</option>
		<option >SubDir3</option>
	</option>

The problem is that, dynamically added options (via htmlayout::dom::element::append) are not shown. Only the root item is visible (without [+]). After some time if I dbl-click on the left of the checkbox (where the [+] should be), the [+] and sub-items are shown. But same story continues for sub-items...

If I let some options in the .html there are shown fine from beginning.
If get html of the widget after adding options dynamically, save on drive and open in browse.exe works fine.

There is some kind of refresh that should be called after widget update ? I have tried .update but doesn't help.

thanks

ixia on "elem.clone() and set_attribute()"

ixia — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:35:54 +0000

Hello, I am trying to copy an element, modify some sub-items and then add it to a table

The element has this structure

<tr>
		<td>...</td>
		<td >
			<input type="checkbox" ext=".ext" />
		</td>
		<td>...</td>
	</tr>

I maintain a copy elem that is the source of all items

htmlayout::dom::element elem_copy = elem.clone();

elem_copy.child(0)
-> set_text() works

elem_copy.child(1).child(0)
-> set_attribute("ext", szExt) does not change the input (i'm testing this via input.get_html();)
-> set_state(STATE_CHECKED); also fails to modify the state

any idea what I am doing wrong ?

midiway on "Prototype behavior class and DOM element relationship"

midiway — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:08:41 +0000

When you set the prototype trough CSS for a given selector for DOM elements, like:

.slider
{
  prototype: "MySlider";
}

It is expectable that this behavior can possibly be applied to many element.
Suppose that I want to design an image slider, you need to track what is the current image, so you would come with a behavior like this:

class MySlider : Behavior
{
  var current_image;

  function onClick()
  {
    ..
    // inc to the next image
    this.current_image++;
    ...
  }
}

If I have many sliders, each DOM instance need to keep associate data tracking what is its current image. I supposed that you could achieve that with Behaviors, but in my tests I couldn't verify this. For example when the onClick() method is called, the this keyword refers to an instance of the Element class (the DOM itself), and not an instance of MySlider class, so I dont have the MySlider state associated with the DOM element.

How could I workaround this relation between the DOM element and its state data that must resid in an instance of its behavior class 'MySlider'