Rich text editor or HTML editor for Oracle Forms: Decision time !
A project that I started in September 2008 was motivated by the lack of rich text editors in Forms applications. Francois Degrelle has already provided an HTML editable bean that can provide adequate styling.
However, there are situations where features, comparable to those found on such editors as TinyMCE, are needed.
Based on this requirement, I started the project and quickly put together a bean that allowed several styling beyond Bold, Italic and left justified, etc.
However, one question remained and that one is related to the exact type of editor: should it be a rich text or HTML editor ?
While the difference might not be obvious, it is clear there are differences between the two. The main one being the font support. Remember that a Forms application is supposed to run on any supported platform and as such, and I believe that’s the case for most implementations, application servers are most of the time deployed on UNIX/LINUX boxes in addition to Windows servers.
With that in mind, I opted for an HTML editor with one strong requirement: support for printing through Oracle reports. The reason has to do with the way the editor will be used.
In most cases, it is not going to be used for blogs or whatever but simply to provide rich text editing for ITEMS in a Forms application and here we are talking about business (back-end) applications that ultimately output data to printers or pdf documents.
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Francois Degrelle
January 17th, 2009
Afed,
I think they are probably about 90% of the Forms developers waiting for this bean
Francois