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Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

Last post 09-08-2006, 9.09 by theo. 5 replies.
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  •  08-15-2006, 2.00 12740

    Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Hello,

    This is how i got it to work.

    I downloaded the latest bits from here http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?rainbow 

     http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfcontent/private.php/rainbow/Rainbow%20Portal.NET%202.0%20Alpha%203.0/Rainbow%20Portal.NET%202.0%20Alpha%203.0%20Developer%20Preview%20Versions/Rainbow.Portal.2.0.Alpha.3.1.rar

    went thru the install instructions as usuall, created db etc.
    for the freetextbox i went to the freetextbox site and got the latest bits and took the dll from the \Framework-2.0 folder and copied it to my rainbow website's \bin folder

    then i commented these lines out in the web.config (line 373)

    <httpHandlers>
    <!--
    <add verb="GET" path="FtbWebResource.axd" type="FreeTextBoxControls.AssemblyResourceHandler, FreeTextBox"/>-->
    <
    add path="UploadDialog.aspx" verb="*" type="StaticDust.Web.UploadHandler, StaticDust.Web.UI.Controls.UploadDialog" validate="false"/>
    </
    httpHandlers>

    I was still getting the FreeTextBox has not been correctly installed. To install FreeTextBox either:
    error so i went to this section in the websonfig which is commented out (dont know why)

    <blowery.web>
    <!--
    Uncomment the below lines to use http compression-->
    <!--

    <httpCompress preferredAlgorithm="deflate" compressionLevel="normal">
    <excludedMimeTypes>
    <add type="image/jpeg"/>
    <add type="image/gif"/>
    </excludedMimeTypes>
    <excludedPaths>
    <add path="WebResource.axd" />
    <add path="FtbWebResource.axd" />
    <add path="NoCompress.aspx"/>
    </excludedPaths>
    </httpCompress>
    -->
    </
    blowery.web>

    I uncommented the <httpCompress> ... </httpCompress> section and ran the site

    it works like a charm. Didnt have to do fixes like many other sites suggested, like disassembling the freetextbox.dll an all that bs. :)

    ping me if you want an more details pls.

    Thanks once again for all the wonderful work.

    Rainbow Portal is great.

     

    Cheers

    KM

  •  08-15-2006, 5.55 12744 in reply to 12740

    Re: Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Ha nice man.  I was looking for the solution to this.  However, its wierd that by including compression [ thats what you did when you uncommented those lines], freetextbox started to work.  I think you did something else and it worked.  We added compression just as a feature that the deployer must activate.  It only works with browsers that understand compression.  Are you getting any other errors with ftb?  With both versions, they still had a bug they hadnt fixed that would make it give you the error you described.  Maybe with the new bits, they have solved this.

    Eric Ramseur

    ramseur[at]gmail[dot]com

    C# 2005 Group
    Portal Community
    Rainbow Blog
  •  08-15-2006, 6.24 12749 in reply to 12744

    Re: Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Hi,

    No i dont think i changed anything else.
    In fact i tried this and it still works like a charm.
    I created a new TestASPnet site a plain asp.net 2.0 site.
    copied the FreeTextBox.dll (version 3.1.6.34851) into the bin folder then created a testftb.aspx page that has this

    <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="TestFTB.aspx.cs" Inherits="TestFTB" %>
    <%
    @ Register Assembly="FreeTextBox" Namespace="FreeTextBoxControls" TagPrefix="FTB" %>
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <
    html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <
    head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    </
    head>
    <
    body>
          <form id="form1" runat="server">
          <div>
                <FTB:freetextbox id="FreeTextBox1" supportfolder="~/FtbWebResource.axd" focus="true" runat="Server" />
          </div>
       </form>
    </
    body>
    </
    html>

    And everything works. (nothing in the codebehind file, default web.config and nothing in that too) can some one else try it out please and let me / us know.
    It would be great.

    Regards
    KM

  •  08-15-2006, 6.41 12752 in reply to 12749

    Re: Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Just to test it out again, i created a brand new site called TestFTB ( i dont seem to have permissions to upload attachments)

    I just sent you a screenshot via your gmail account. could you please upload it for other to see.

    Regards
    KM

  •  08-16-2006, 12.14 12758 in reply to 12752

    Re: Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Yep Ill check it out.  Im more concerned with it working with Rainbow 2.0.  Try getting it to work with different version of rainbow 2.0.  We have a couple different versions on the novell site.  If you look at the files section, you can see all of the releases.

    Eric Ramseur

    ramseur[at]gmail[dot]com

    C# 2005 Group
    Portal Community
    Rainbow Blog
  •  09-08-2006, 9.09 12960 in reply to 12740

    Re: Finally got the FreeTextbox working...

    Hello All,

    I also have the same problem, and I followed KM's solution, but it doesn't work on my end. When I try to go to a page with the freetextbox editor, it redirects to a rainbow error page saying "

    Our Apologies

    We're sorry, but we were unable to service your request. It's possible that the problem is a temporary condition.

    Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks in advance.

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