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From: Nick Friend on 28 Apr 2010 08:08
Mathias

Thanks, I'll look at this. But really where the problem lies is in the
editing. We already have a 3rd party OCX to use for viewing and
printing, and that's much more lightweight than Word itself, so that
part is pretty well controlled.

The big issue is the editing... how to make it as fast as possible and
error trapping when Word (or the user!) doesn't cooperate.

Nick
From: Jean-Pierre Maertens on 28 Apr 2010 10:04
I had the same problems years ago. I have used TE-control (a 3th party
product) and it has the look and feel of MS-Word, the users are very
pleased with it and it is not very expensive. Greg Garza and I have
written a VO wrapper for this control, so you can use it just as a
custom control.

greetings,

--
Jean-Pierre Maertens


From: Geoff Schaller on 28 Apr 2010 19:19
Richard.

Actually no. RTF probably has 5% of the functionality people want now
with their docs. Also, the specification is rapidly becoming docx etc
because of the implicit compression available. Especially if the
document is data linked to some sql server etc and has prefilled fields
etc, rtf just isn't going to cut the mustard.

Geoff


"richard.townsendrose" <richard.townsendrose(a)googlemail.com> wrote in
message
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> Nick
>
> why use ms word ??? ... why not use RTF ...
>
> it has 99% of what people need ...
>
> we use rtf memo fields .. i have always wanted to add the rtf menu and
> toolbar, but never got round to it ...
>
> see http://www.tdoc.org.uk/Ver5/QL_G_12.JPG
>
> what our users like is to be able to see all the other related
> data ... like who had it when in reply to what, how it fits into a
> contract claim [e.g. keywords]
>
> Richard

From: Mathias on 29 Apr 2010 01:56
Hi Nick,

in my excel-internet explorer hack, speed has never been an issue. Its
the same speed that you get when navigating to a word document in
internet explorer. The difficulti lies in getting access to the
automation object as it's internet explorer that starts it instead of
your application.

Mathias

On 28 Apr, 14:08, Nick Friend <nicktek...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mathias
>
> Thanks, I'll look at this. But really where the problem lies is in the
> editing. We already have a 3rd party OCX to use for viewing and
> printing, and that's much more lightweight than Word itself, so that
> part is pretty well controlled.
>
> The big issue is the editing... how to make it as fast as possible and
> error trapping when Word (or the user!) doesn't cooperate.
>
> Nick

From: Nick Friend on 29 Apr 2010 04:32
Ah, I'd misunderstood.... so you're using IE as the container for the
embedding.. I'll have to investigate that.

But after further discussions yesterday, it looks as though there is
the possibility that we could use a 3rd party tool for editing as
well, as long as it's highly compatible with Word... I've started
another thread on this.

Thanks

Nick

On 29 Apr, 06:56, Mathias <mathias.hakans...(a)consultec.se> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> in my excel-internet explorer hack, speed has never been an issue. Its
> the same speed that you get when navigating to a word document in
> internet explorer. The difficulti lies in getting access to the
> automation object as it's internet explorer that starts it instead of
> your application.
>
> Mathias
>
> On 28 Apr, 14:08, Nick Friend <nicktek...(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Mathias
>
> > Thanks, I'll look at this. But really where the problem lies is in the
> > editing. We already have a 3rd party OCX to use for viewing and
> > printing, and that's much more lightweight than Word itself, so that
> > part is pretty well controlled.
>
> > The big issue is the editing... how to make it as fast as possible and
> > error trapping when Word (or the user!) doesn't cooperate.
>
> > Nick- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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