RichText html editing control doesn't work in Windows 7

HCL Domino Domino Forum
1

Hi everyone! Here’s my problem, wich is applicable only in win7 enviroment.

Many applications using a RichText field, wich is edited by users thru the web interface. As we know there are several ways to draw the editing control on web-form (Java, DHTML and with 8.0 release - simple js). I’ve chose DHTML one, because of its rich functionality. This one is dhtmled.ocx library, supported by Internet Explorer since 1998.

Here it is, functioning as it must: ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs

And for a now we have such problem in IE8 on Win7 x64: ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs

As i see, only half of control is blocked, because toolbar appears. I’ve tried different options of IE security, but nothing works.

I understant that it’s not a Domino problem, but Microsoft with its oldschool library, or blocking policies, but i hope that someone has similar trouble and just found the solution, or a workaround (i mean third-party control).

Thanks in advance!

2

Subject: RichText, certain editor ActiveX controls disabled

FYI, I believe I know what your issue is. I experienced this many moons ago, just when Vista was released we discovered that certain activeX controls were removed from IE versions running on Vista, and subsequently Windows7. Thanks for Microsoft for this.

I ended up needing to go with an MSHTML editor instead. Not as feature rich believe me. Also, recently we moved to a Word editor that launches word and returns the values seamlessly back to our web document. If you’d like I can send you my MSHTML Editor customized code. Also, you can find the base code at:

http://www.openntf.org/Projects/codebin/codebin.nsf/0/DB721E6D73165A2186256E7F005D8B63

It’s a good editor, not as feature rich as the old DHTML editor, but it’s the only thing that works.

Good Luck

-Tim