Replacing the default Dialogs

We have provided the source code for all dialogs used in this HTML editor in the download package you received from our website. If you open the zip file that you downloaded, you will find sample applications and there you will see a project for Customizing the Dialogs. That project is well explanatory and complete that you will not find any difficulty understanding how to override the default dialog with your own designed dialog. For example, lets say, you want to redesign the Image Insert / Edit Dialog.

Step 1. Open the Sample project from the zip file you downloaded and get locate the Image Insert Dialog source code.

Step 2 : Copy the files to your project. Please make sure that you copy these files AFTER you added the reference to HTML Editor control to your project. Not before that.

Step 3: Now, change the Dialogs in anyway you want.

Step 4 : Once you changed the Design, you need to hook up this custom Dialog to the editor from the Window's Loaded event as shown below:

C#

private void MainWindow_OnLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateImageDialogMethod = () => new ImageDialog();
            
}

Sub MainWindow_OnLoaded(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateImageDialogMethod = AddressOf createImageDialog
End Sub

Function createImageDialog() As IImageDialog
    Return New ImageDialog()
End Function

Thats all. Now, when you run your application and invoke the image dialog from the Image tool, you will see your custom Image Dialog is shown up instead of the default factory dialog. In order to save you from many confusions and integration headaches, the sample project we provided for Dialog Customization, we have shown all dialog customization techniques. So, you will not have any problem integrating these custom dialogs to your project.

Not only image dialog, all other dialogs can be overridden in this way. Here is the complete snippet for overriding all dialogs.

C#

private void MainWindow_OnLoaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    // OK, it is not necessary that you need to override all dialogs. We have shown example code for overriding
    // all dialogs. You can comment out any of the dialog setting code that you do not need to override.

    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateImageDialogMethod = () => new ImageDialog();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateHyperlinkDialogMethod = () => new HyperLinkDialog();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSearchDialogMethod = () => new SearchWindow();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSpellcheckerDialogMethod = () => new SpellCheckerDialog { Options = WpfHtmlEditor.SpellCheckOptions };
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateTableCellDialogMethod = () => new TableCellPropertiesDialog();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateTableDialogMethod = () => new TablePropertiesDialog(WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.TableCellDialog);
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSymbolDialogMethod = () => new SymbolDialog();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateStyleBuilderDialogMethod = () => new WinStyleBuilder();
    WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateYouTubeVideoInsertDialogMethod = () => new YouTubeVideoInsertDialog();
}

    Sub MainWindow_OnLoaded(sender As Object, e As RoutedEventArgs)

        ' OK, it is not necessary that you need to override all dialogs. We have shown example code for overriding
        ' all dialogs. You can comment out any of the dialog setting code that you do not need to override.

        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateImageDialogMethod = AddressOf createImageDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateHyperlinkDialogMethod = AddressOf createHyperlinkDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSearchDialogMethod = AddressOf createSearchDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSpellcheckerDialogMethod = AddressOf createSpellCheckerDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateTableCellDialogMethod = AddressOf createTableCellPropertiesDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateTableDialogMethod = AddressOf createTableDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateSymbolDialogMethod = AddressOf createSymbolDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateYouTubeVideoInsertDialogMethod = AddressOf createYouTubeDialog
        WpfHtmlEditor.Dialog.CreateStyleBuilderDialogMethod = AddressOf createStyleBuilderDialog
    End Sub

    Function createImageDialog() As IImageDialog
        Return New ImageDialog()
    End Function

    Function createHyperlinkDialog() As IHyperlinkDialog
        Return New HyperLinkDialog()
    End Function

    Function createSearchDialog() As ISearchDialog
        Return New SearchWindow()
    End Function

    Function createSpellCheckerDialog() As ISpellCheckerDialog
        Return New SpellCheckerDialog()
    End Function

    Function createTableCellPropertiesDialog() As ITableCellDialog
        Return New TableCellPropertiesDialog()
    End Function

    Function createTableDialog() As ITableDialog
        Return New TablePropertiesDialog(createTableCellPropertiesDialog())
    End Function

    Function createSymbolDialog() As ISymbolDialog
        Return New SymbolDialog()
    End Function

    Function createYouTubeDialog() As IYouTubeVideoInsertDialog
        Return New YouTubeVideoInsertDialog()
    End Function

    Function createStyleBuilderDialog() As IStyleBuilderDialog
        Return New WinStyleBuilder()
    End Function