[Zope] Re: External editor for ZMI

[ken wood]

Chris McDonough wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 21:14 +0200, Josef Meile wrote:
>  
>
>>>Do you mean this?
>>>
>>>http://plope.com/software/ExternalEditor
>>>
>>>Are there any screen shots of it in action?
>>>
>>>I'm not exactly sure how it works, but have feeling it won't work for me.
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, that's what Paul meant. I tried it once and it is not difficult to
>>install. You just have to follow the *README* and configure it to start
>>the editor you want according to the file type. You can edit word and
>>excel files, bitmaps, python scripts, dtml, zpt, and much more. Off
>>course you need to have the editor programs installed on the client
>>machine.
>>
>>There were some bugs with excel and word, but I read in the link you
>>posted that they are likely solved (or I hope so :-)).
>>    
>>
>
>Yep.  Lots of Excel and Word plugin fixes.  One particularly egregious
>bug that was fixed: if a user exited Word/Excel without saving first and
>got the nag dialog that asked him if he wants to save the file, the file
>wouldn't be saved and no error would be presented.  Another
>Excel-specific bug was fixed inasmuch as EE would sporadically throw an
>error if a user was "camping" on an input cell due to COM async
>weirdness.
>
>- C
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I've been following this discussion with some interest as I have never 
been able to get ExternalEditor to work for me. Now, that said, I have 
it confiured enough that it will present me with an editor and a file 
(WinWord) by clicking on the pencil. But I am confused on two points:
1.) When Word opens a document it presents me with text without any 
formatting. Also gives me metadata, URL, cookie info etc. Is this how it 
is supposed to work?
2.) When I save the work, I don't know where is goes or how to get it 
back to my plone site.
Just seems that the documentation gets vague on these issues.
Looking for some enlightenment.
Thanks.
ken wood