ChrisLott
June 18th, 2001, 09:48 AM
Hi,
I'm working on this problem: provide local-PC functionality to browse an XML document, and to edit it in a very limited way. The current plan is to use a standalone VB app to read the XML, and launch IE from that VB app to preview the file (bits of XSLT code provide for a very nice table output format in IE). So at this point I have a tiny VB app running, and alongside it IE is showing a nicely formatted (but non-editable) view of the data. Now the tricky part: allowing the user to edit a data row in the table. How can this be done?
I thought that maybe something like a button could appear on every row in the table. Some magic behind that button will allow the user to edit the row. Clicking on the button might bring up a new window to allow the editing (no editing in place in IE is required). I don't really know (or care) who launches the window.
This all has to run locally on a PC - no permanent network connection is available.
Please help. Will IE send some event back to the VB app that could be caught? Do I need a plug-in that could communicate with the standalone VB app? Is there some completely elegant solutiona that I just don't know about? Thanks in advance for any and all help.
chris...
I'm working on this problem: provide local-PC functionality to browse an XML document, and to edit it in a very limited way. The current plan is to use a standalone VB app to read the XML, and launch IE from that VB app to preview the file (bits of XSLT code provide for a very nice table output format in IE). So at this point I have a tiny VB app running, and alongside it IE is showing a nicely formatted (but non-editable) view of the data. Now the tricky part: allowing the user to edit a data row in the table. How can this be done?
I thought that maybe something like a button could appear on every row in the table. Some magic behind that button will allow the user to edit the row. Clicking on the button might bring up a new window to allow the editing (no editing in place in IE is required). I don't really know (or care) who launches the window.
This all has to run locally on a PC - no permanent network connection is available.
Please help. Will IE send some event back to the VB app that could be caught? Do I need a plug-in that could communicate with the standalone VB app? Is there some completely elegant solutiona that I just don't know about? Thanks in advance for any and all help.
chris...