Looking for control that will allow me to create a html body for an email

[k_zeon]

Hi, looking for a way to create text only that i can add to an email.

I would like it to be able to indent add bullet point colour fonts and colour background of fonts ( ie highlight)

does anyone know of a free control or usercontrol that would allow a type of word processor and then create html text
that i can save as a template when sending an email.

tks

[Arnoutdv]

I have a very old module for converting RTF to HTML.
I've used it in the past to convert the output of the RichTextBox control to an HTML file

The URL in header is not functional anymore and I also can't find it on the wayback archive..

'Version 3.03
'Copyright Brady Hegberg 2000
'  I'm not licensing this software but I'd appreciate it if
'  you'd to consider it to be under an lgpl sort of license

'More information can be found at
'http://www2.bitstream.net/~bradyh/downloads/rtf2htmlrm.html

'Converts Rich Text encoded text to HTML format
'if you find some text that this function doesn't
'convert properly please email the coded text to
'bradyh@bitstream.net

'Thanks to various people for assistance including
'   Anthony DiMauro for work on 3.0x font support
'   ...and many others

I will attach a zipped version of the code.

[k_zeon]

I have a very old module for converting RTF to HTML.
I've used it in the past to convert the output of the RichTextBox control to an HTML file

The URL in header is not functional anymore and I also can't find it on the wayback archive..

'Version 3.03
'Copyright Brady Hegberg 2000
'  I'm not licensing this software but I'd appreciate it if
'  you'd to consider it to be under an lgpl sort of license

'More information can be found at
'http://www2.bitstream.net/~bradyh/downloads/rtf2htmlrm.html

'Converts Rich Text encoded text to HTML format
'if you find some text that this function doesn't
'convert properly please email the coded text to
'bradyh@bitstream.net

'Thanks to various people for assistance including
'   Anthony DiMauro for work on 3.0x font support
'   ...and many others

I will attach a zipped version of the code.

Tks i got this today and already had a play. does most of what i need but does not highlight text background.

I will try to study whats there and see if i can add the feature to highlight text. but never really dealt with RTB codes etc

[k_zeon]

out of interest, would it be possible to use a browser/RC6 to load a webpage that has a pre built web based HTML editor like what we use on this site
that i could embed in a form and create text etc. then use the browser text out put.??

[Arnoutdv]

There is also the quite ancient HTMLEdit control.
I have used in a project back in 1999/2000

[k_zeon]

There is also the quite ancient HTMLEdit control.
I have used in a project back in 1999/2000

do you have a link or zip to it. tks

[Elroy]

I've got no idea what you're trying to do, or what the requirements are of whatever email client you're using ...

but, why not just use something like https://htmleditor.online/ and be done with it?

[k_zeon]

I've got no idea what you're trying to do, or what the requirements are of whatever email client you're using ...

but, why not just use something like https://htmleditor.online/ and be done with it?

Hi Elroy. I have an app that i save information to. once processed i want to be able to email with Outlook.
I have this all working , but was asked to include some text in the body of the email.
I did not want to hard code into my app, so made a settings page to store email subject and email body.

I would like to give the user the ability to create an email with basic items ie Bold, Highlight text , font colour, Bullet points, indenting.

I thought there would be a simple editor that i could incorporate into my app that would enable a user to add/create their own email body without knowing html.

tks

[Arnoutdv]

do you have a link or zip to it. tks

No, it was called dhtmledit.ocx or something like that

[Elroy]

If it were me, I'd probably use the RichTx32.ocx (Microsoft Rich Textbox) control, and design a little editor for it, as I've actually done that before, and it's not difficult:



Then, upon the click of some button, I'd grab the RTF text from it and convert it to HTML, which, so long as the RTF text was fairly simple, wouldn't be difficult at all.

Anyway, that's how I'd do it.

[Elroy]

Here, I've attached a little project that includes this little RTF label editor. This particular editor is designed to be used in the VB6 IDE design-time mode, and not by the user. To call up the editor, right-click the label on Form1 and click "Edit".

Much of the "editor" functionality you're asking for is there. Maybe you can modify it for your needs.

---

Also, I noticed that editor is acting a bit glitchy. I haven't used it in a while, and that's something new. I don't know if that's updates to RichTx32.ocx, or something about Windows 11, or whatever. But, you're on your own there.

---

I fixed it. In the frmRtfEdit form (RtfEdit.frm), in the QueryUnload event, a "Cancel = True" line is needed, as follows:

Private Sub Form_QueryUnload(Cancel As Integer, UnloadMode As Integer)
    If UnloadMode = vbFormControlMenu Then
        bCanceled = True
        Hide
        Cancel = True
    End If
End Sub

That fixes it.

---

Good Luck.

[Joe Caverly]

do you have a link or zip to it. tks

On my Windows 10 system;

Directory of  C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DhtmlEd\*

2025-01-30   7:44         <DIR>    .
2025-01-30   7:44         <DIR>    ..
2025-01-30   7:44          32,256  dhtmled.oca
2006-07-05  16:12         244,640  DHTMLEd.ocx
2006-07-05  16:12         273,368  TriEdit.dll

This is included with Visual Basic 6.0

Is it on your system already?

Joe

[Joe Caverly]

DHTML Editing Control for Applications Redistributable Package (x86) for Windows

Ref: https://download.cnet.com/dhtml-edit...-10743863.html

Joe

[gaouser]

Hi, looking for a way to create text only that i can add to an email.

I would like it to be able to indent add bullet point colour fonts and colour background of fonts ( ie highlight)

does anyone know of a free control or usercontrol that would allow a type of word processor and then create html text
that i can save as a template when sending an email.

tks

WebBrowser with the ContentEditable or the MS DHTML Editor control thing that isn't recommended and actually is even older than WebBrowser's IE.

htmlEditor.Document.execCommand "Bold", False, Nothing
htmlEditor.SetFocus

Example execCommand to text highlighted text bold.

[gaouser]

Do not use RTF. It'll be a pain. and IE's HTML is easily enough for email body. who wants CSS emails? corporate junk.

[gaouser]

DHTML Edit uses older IE, and from what I found, execCommand is missing and idk any way to get the highlighted text area

[gaouser]

so, try ContentEditable WebBrowser. Can't believe none of you thought about it. It even has ways to bold out or italic out or even change font of a highlighted area. Perfect for writing.

[gaouser]

On my Windows 10 system;

Directory of  C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\DhtmlEd\*

2025-01-30   7:44         <DIR>    .
2025-01-30   7:44         <DIR>    ..
2025-01-30   7:44          32,256  dhtmled.oca
2006-07-05  16:12         244,640  DHTMLEd.ocx
2006-07-05  16:12         273,368  TriEdit.dll

This is included with Visual Basic 6.0

Is it on your system already?

Joe

You need to register it with regsvr32 though. It's preinstalled but not registered.

[gaouser]

so, try ContentEditable WebBrowser. Can't believe none of you thought about it. It even has ways to bold out or italic out or even change font of a highlighted area. Perfect for writing.

WebBrowser1.Document.body.designMode = "on"

(don't forget to load a blank page like about:blank before executing)

[k_zeon]

tks to all that replied. I will try to create a simple editor with webbrowser. Out of interest, does anyone know the execCommand to highlight text backcolour

also, if Olaf is listening , can the RC6 dll be used with Webview2 to do the same as the webbrowser control.

can you give me a basic starting point of how to do this. tks

[anycoder]

List of commands for the designmode mode are available at this link
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...ectedfrom=MSDN

For yellow color try this:
document.ExecCommand "BackColor", 0, &H00FFFF&

[gaouser]

tks to all that replied. I will try to create a simple editor with webbrowser. Out of interest, does anyone know the execCommand to highlight text backcolour

also, if Olaf is listening , can the RC6 dll be used with Webview2 to do the same as the webbrowser control.

can you give me a basic starting point of how to do this. tks

I am not sure if Trident engine is that capable. CSS is worst nightmare of Trident.

as for WV2. You can set attribute contentEditable of body tag. but remember to remove it when uploading it!

[gaouser]

List of commands for the designmode mode are available at this link
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/pr...ectedfrom=MSDN

For yellow color try this:
document.ExecCommand "BackColor", 0, &H00FFFF&

that'll likely change bgcolor of body tag. I don't know any HTML4.01 tags to do that

[DrBobby]

We use TinyMCE where I work for this. We have a form that acts as a webview2 window from RC6 and load the js version of their editor. Its a pretty full featured WYSIWYG and has a free version. It makes it pretty easy for people who dont know html / css to make emails.

https://www.tiny.cloud/blog/tinymce-...g-html-editor/

[gaouser]

WebBrowser1 is the best option imo.

[k_zeon]

so i have started the html editor and have the following working.
Bold, Italic , Underline , Cut ,Copy , Paste , Forecolour, Backcolour



But i am having a little trouble with Unorderd List , Indenting , Left/Center/Right Justify

i use

WebBrowser1.Document.Execcommand "JustifyLeft"
WebBrowser1.Document.Execcommand "JustifyCenter"
WebBrowser1.Document.Execcommand "JustifyRight"

but this seems to justify the whole document. How can i only justify selected text. same goes for UnorderedList and Indenting.

if i use

WebBrowser1.document.execCommand('InsertUnorderedList',false,'NewUL')

it puts a bullet point on the first line , but when i hit enter it starts a new paragraph and not bulleted.
If i however hold the Shift Key and press enter, it does goto next line and keeps the bullet alignment but does not create a new bullet point.

any help appreciated. tks

[wqweto]

Btw, back in the day TinyMCE supported IE11 and we are still using version 4.1.3 (2014-07-29) hosted in a WebBrowser control to edit media content as HTML but it's far too complicated solution to post a snippet here so I'll post only a sample screenshot:



Note that this content editor is 100% JS based as used by WordPress.

cheers,
</wqw>

[k_zeon]

tks. is this something that i could include in one of my projects.( how easy would it be) , can you adjust what buttons are displayed as would not need all of them.