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A Professional HTML Renderer You Will Use

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29 Jan 2009BSD4 min read 734.7K   23.3K   531  
100% managed code that draws HTML on any device
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing.Html;
using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;

namespace Html_Demo
{
    public partial class MainForm : Form
    {
        #region Fields
        private const int MAX = 5;
        private int tmrCount = 0;
        private bool updateLock = false;
        #endregion

        #region Ctor
        public MainForm()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            //Rtf font
            rtf.Font = new Font(FontFamily.GenericMonospace, 10);

            //Window bounds
            StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual; Bounds = Screen.GetWorkingArea(Point.Empty);

            //Load samples
            LoadSamples();
        } 
        #endregion

        #region Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Loads the tree of document samples
        /// </summary>
        private void LoadSamples()
        {
            TreeNode root = new TreeNode("Sample Documents"); tv.Nodes.Add(root);
            string[] names = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceNames();
            string extensionFilter = ".htm";

            Array.Sort(names);

            foreach (string name in names)
            {
                int extPos = name.LastIndexOf('.');
                int namePos = extPos > 0 && name.Length > 1 ? name.LastIndexOf('.', extPos - 1) : 0;
                string ext = name.Substring(extPos >= 0 ? extPos : 0);
                string shortName = namePos > 0 && name.Length > 2 ? name.Substring(namePos + 1, name.Length - namePos - ext.Length - 1) : name;

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(extensionFilter)
                    || extensionFilter.IndexOf(ext) >= 0)
                {
                    TreeNode node = new TreeNode(shortName);
                    root.Nodes.Add(node);
                    node.Tag = name;
                }
            }
           
            root.Expand();

            if (root.Nodes.Count > 0)
            {
                tv.SelectedNode = root.Nodes[0];
                tv_NodeMouseClick(this, new TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs(root.Nodes[0], MouseButtons.None, 0, 0, 0));
            }
        }

        #endregion

        private void rtf_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (updateLock) return;

            tmrCount = 0;
            tmrRepaint.Enabled = true;
        }

        private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void tv_NodeMouseClick(object sender, TreeNodeMouseClickEventArgs e)
        {
            string resource = Convert.ToString(e.Node.Tag);

            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(resource)) return;

            using (StreamReader sreader = new StreamReader(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream(resource)))
            {
                string html = sreader.ReadToEnd();
                SyntaxHilight.AddColoredText(html, rtf);

                updateLock = true;
                Application.UseWaitCursor = true;
                panel.Text = html;
                Application.UseWaitCursor = false;
                updateLock = false;
            }

            
            
        }

        private void colorPicker1_ColorSelected(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Color c = colorPicker1.SelectedColor;
            rtf.SelectedText = string.Format("#{0}{1}{2}", 
                (c.R < 10 ? "0" : string.Empty) +  c.R.ToString("x"),
                (c.G < 10 ? "0" : string.Empty) + c.G.ToString("x"),
                (c.B < 10 ? "0" : string.Empty) + c.B.ToString("x"));
        }

        private void MainForm_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Alt && e.KeyCode == Keys.C)
            {
                colorPicker1.Visible = !colorPicker1.Visible;
                e.Handled = true;
                e.SuppressKeyPress = true;
            }
        }

        private void tmrRepaint_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            tmrCount++;

            if (tmrCount >= MAX)
            {
                tmrCount = 0;
                tmrRepaint.Enabled = false;
                panel.Text = rtf.Text;
                Console.WriteLine("Parse");
            }
        }

    }
}

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