How To Call The RTF Editor

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• ScanTech Instruments Inc.

  October 13 edited October 13 Posts: 9Vote Up1Vote Down

  // This is a minimal example that sets and gets RTFText.

  
  

  unit Unit1;

  
  

  interface

  
  

  uses

    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Classes,

    Vcl.Graphics, Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, pLMDRTFRichEditor;

  
  

  type

    TForm1 = class(TForm)

      procedure FormClick(Sender: TObject);

    public

      constructor Create(AOwner: TComponent); override;

    end;

  
  

  var

    Form1: TForm1;

    GlobalRTF: string = '{\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss Arial;}}\f0\fs20 Hello, \b world\b0!}';

  
  

  implementation

  
  

  {$R *.dfm}

  
  

  { TForm1 }

  
  

  constructor TForm1.Create(AOwner: TComponent);

  begin

    inherited;

    Self.OnClick := FormClick;

  end;

  
  

  procedure TForm1.FormClick(Sender: TObject);

  var

    Editor: TfrmLMDRichEditorForm;

  begin

    Editor := TfrmLMDRichEditorForm.Create(nil);

    try

      Editor.LMDRichEdit.RTFText := GlobalRTF;

      if Editor.ExecuteEx('Edit RTF', Editor.LMDRichEdit) then

        GlobalRTF := Editor.LMDRichEdit.RTFText;

    finally

      Editor.Free;

    end;

  end;

  
  

  end.
• Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

  October 11 Posts: 0Vote Up0Vote Down

  Just place TLMDRichEdit control on a form along with standard toolbar component. Use standard TActionList component to link toolbar buttons to actions. LMD RichPack provides a set of built-in rich edit related actions, which you can add to action list via its context menu:

  
  

  Right click|New standard action|LMDRichEdit|...

  
  

  Look also at the package demos.
• ScanTech Instruments Inc.

  October 13 edited October 13 Posts: 9Vote Up0Vote Down

  I followed those instructions. Which action under LMDRichEdit do I pick? None of their names suggest opening an RTF editor. I selected LMDRichEditBaseEditAction1. It runs but pushing the button does nothing. I am a new Delphi developer so I may be missing even the obvious to you. I don’t want to develop an editor but use LMD’s pre-built modal editor dialog exactly as the IDE does when double-clicking a TLMDRichEdit to edit RTF content. I just want to pass RTF text to the dialog and get it back. Before I purchased the richpack my conversation with sales indicated this would be possible and straightforward as even that dialog's source is available.
• ScanTech Instruments Inc.

  October 13 edited October 13 Posts: 9Vote Up0Vote Down

  Here is an example but appears to re-implement the editor form from scratch: demos\delphi\lmdrtf\RichEdit_Execute\
• Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

  October 14 Posts: 0Vote Up0Vote Down

  Yes, you need to implement required dialog from the scratch. The package provides RTF editor control and standard actions for them, but you have to design dialog's form yourself and show it with ShowModal in your application. It's a standard way in Delphi.
• Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

  October 14 edited October 14 Posts: 0Vote Up0Vote Down

  Alternatively you can copy-paste the code from demo's LMDRTFRichEditor.pas unit, or event simpler - use this unit as a whole in your project.
• ScanTech Instruments Inc.

  October 14 Posts: 9Vote Up0Vote Down

  Why not use TfrmLMDRichEditorForm from the src folder? The short example I provided before seems to work but when I integrate it into a large application it appears to hang but really just opens unrefreshed. It gets painted when another windows is moved over it. Where is documentation on how to use it?
• Eugene Balabuev (LMD)

  October 14 Posts: 0Vote Up0Vote Down

  TfrmLMDRichEditorForm - is functionality of our desing-time package. It's not supposed to be used in customer's applications. You can use it, of course, at your own risk, or you can copy it to your project and tweak the code as needed.