I am using TinyMce from within a Windows Form through the Awesomium browser. I created a User Control like this that I am placing on the Windows Form:
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.IO
Imports Awesomium.Core
Imports Awesomium.Windows
Partial Public Class TinyMCE
Inherits UserControl
Public Sub New()
InitializeComponent()
End Sub
Public Property HtmlContent() As String
Get
Dim content As String = String.Empty
If Not WebCore.IsInitialized Then
WebCore.Initialize(New WebConfig() With {.LogLevel = LogLevel.Verbose})
Else
Dim html As JSValue = webBrowserControl.ExecuteJavascriptWithResult("GetContent")
content = html.ToString
End If
Return content
End Get
Set(value As String)
If WebCore.IsInitialized Then
Dim objResult As JSObject = webBrowserControl.ExecuteJavascriptWithResult("window")
objResult.InvokeAsync("SetContent", value)
End If
End Set
End Property
Public Sub CreateEditor()
If File.Exists(Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "html\template\tinymce\js\tinymce\tinymce.min.js")) Then
webBrowserControl.Source = New Uri("file:///" & Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "html\template\tinymce.htm").Replace("\"c, "/"c))
Else
MessageBox.Show("Could not find the tinyMCE script directory. " & (Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "html\template\tinymce\js\tinymce\tinymce.min.js")), "Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.[Error])
End If
End Sub
End Class
My HTML is fairly simplistic as far as the TinyMCE goes:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>tinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor</title>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="tinymce/js/tinymce/tinymce.min.js"></script>
<!-- Script functions to expose tinyMCE internals that get called from code using InvokeScript method. -->
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetContent() {
return tinyMCE.get('tinyMceEditor').getContent();
}
function SetContent(htmlContent) {
tinyMCE.get('tinyMceEditor').setContent(htmlContent);
}
</script>
<!-- TinyMCE -->
<script type="text/javascript">
tinymce.init({
selector: 'textarea',
menu: {
file: { title: 'File', items: 'newdocument' },
edit: { title: 'Edit', items: 'undo redo | cut copy paste pastetext | selectall' },
insert: { title: 'Insert', items: 'link media | template hr' },
view: { title: 'View', items: 'visualaid' },
format: { title: 'Format', items: 'bold italic underline strikethrough superscript subscript | formats | removeformat' },
table: { title: 'Table', items: 'inserttable tableprops deletetable | cell row column' },
tools: { title: 'Tools', items: 'spellchecker code' },
plantwatch: { title: 'My Menu', items: 'dataloop collectorloop processloop historian emailgroup alertgroup menusave' }
},
menubar : 'plantwatch file edit insert view format table tools',
plugins: [
'advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak',
'searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars code fullscreen',
'insertdatetime media nonbreaking save table contextmenu directionality',
'emoticons template paste textcolor colorpicker textpattern imagetools codesample toc'
],
toolbar1: 'undo redo | insert | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | link image',
toolbar2: 'forecolor backcolor emoticons | codesample',
image_advtab: true,
setup: function (editor) {
editor.addMenuItem('dataloop', {
text: 'Data Loop',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{LOOP:Data}');
}
});
editor.addMenuItem('collectorloop', {
text: 'Collector Loop',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{LOOP:Collector}');
}
});
editor.addMenuItem('processloop', {
text: 'Process Loop',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{LOOP:Process}');
}
});
editor.addMenuItem('historian', {
text: 'Historian Server Name',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{HistorianServerName}');
}
});
editor.addMenuItem('emailgroup', {
text: 'Email Group Name',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{EmailGroupName}');
}
});
editor.addMenuItem('alertgroup', {
text: 'Alert Group Name',
onclick: function () {
editor.insertContent('{AlertGroupName}');
}
});
}
});
</script>
<!-- /TinyMCE -->
<body>
<form method="post">
<!-- Gets replaced with TinyMCE, remember HTML in a textarea should be encoded -->
<textarea name="tinyMceEditor" cols="1" rows="1" style="width:100%; height: 78%"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I then have a button on my Windows Form that calls the following:
Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click MsgBox(tinyMceEditor.HtmlContent) End Sub
I would have expected that to return the content, but instead it is only returning the full text of the function itself, which is this:
function GetContent() {
return tinyMCE.get('tinyMceEditor').getContent();
}
It is returning that in string form, of course, since that is how my code structured it. I'm not sure why it isn't returning the HTML, though.
Right now you're just referencing the GetContent function so it's returning the definition, you need to call it to get the result.
Change:
Dim html As JSValue = webBrowserControl.ExecuteJavascriptWithResult("GetContent")
To:
Dim html As JSValue = webBrowserControl.ExecuteJavascriptWithResult("GetContent();")