Hello EveryOne
I am considering developing a thin client.
Right now we use a C++ client and a SQL database and a php website.
I only see one question : Users must be able to modify manually using openoffice/word (or any other easy to use software) document generated by the thin client.
So is it possible to generate editable text file and save them on the client computer?
I’m a bit unclear what you’re trying to achieve here, but it sounds like you’re wondering whether the RichText component natively supports ODF or DOC-formatted files. The answer to this is “no”: The RichText component only reads and generates XHTML natively.
You might find some libraries that convert XHTML to those rich document formats and back, but unfortunately I can’t help you there.
To the question of saving locally, there’s no reliable way of saving files directly to a client computer from the web. You could induce a download of a file (that’s how the other services usually do it) for “saving”, and use the Upload component for “loading”.
You could write some kind of browser-specific plug-in to achieve this, but that’s also something out of my comfort zone, and probably what you don’t want anyways.