[wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

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[wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

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Hi

In my wx application, I am getting plain text from wxTextCtrl and loading to wxSimpleHtmlListBox. The text can contain new line and any html entity like & >, < etc. I am handling it manually (i.e Replacing _T('<') with _T("&lt;"), _T('\n') with _T("<br/>") and so on) when I find issue in displaying the text.

I want a way to do it automatically like we have wxURI which converts/encodes plain text to HTML URL. I tried loading URI but it comes as plain text.
"A\nB" displays as "A%0aB". It want it to be displayed in two line in the list.

Let me know if there is way where it automatically coverts/encodes to HTML string.

Please suggest.

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Re: [wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

Post by PB »

I do not think wxWidgets provide such function.

The closest thing it has is probably this private code doing that (for XML), that should be easy to adapt for your needs:
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/ ... .cpp#L1016

But perhaps it would be easier to find another and perhaps better C++ code for this...
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Re: [wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

Post by doublemax »

when I find issue in displaying the text.
What kind of issues?

I don't think there is much more to do than you already did. I use a similar code:

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wxString ConvertTextToHTML( const wxString &in )
{
  wxString out;
  out.reserve( in.length() * 4 );
 
  for( wxString::const_iterator p = in.begin(); p!=in.end(); p++ )
  {
    wxUniChar c = *p;

    if( c >= 128 )
    {
      out.Append( wxString::Format("&#%d", c.GetValue()) );
    }
    else if( c == '<' )
      out.Append( wxT("&lt;") );
    else if( c == '>' )
      out.Append( wxT("&gt;") );
    else if( c == '&' )
      out.Append( wxT("&amp;") );
    else
      out.Append( c );
  };

  out.Shrink();
  
  return out;
}
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Re: [wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

Post by Rudra »

Thanks for the reply.
What kind of issues?
Initially, I was not handling '<', so it was not getting displayed in list if input string has it. e.g if input string is "a<c" then I was seeing only "a" in list.
I don't see any problem with '>' and '&'. It gets displayed okay. I have to replace the '<'' with "&lt;". Recently, I see problem with '\n', "A\nB" is displayed as "A B" in the list. I had to replace the '\n' with "<br/>". I find another one '\t'(Tab). "A\tB" is displayed as "A B".

I don't know which other chars can have issues, So, I wanted a way where it can be done automatically. As there is no such way, I need to know which other chars can create similar issue.

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Re: [wxMSW[3.0.3] Convert plain text to html text

Post by T-Rex »

You probably could use libhtmlcxx and HTML::decode_entities function.
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