Post creator main buttons c# Source

**jayfella** · 5th Dec 2009, 11:03 PM

Ok.

I see a lot of people writing post-creator applications, which is a great way to start writing programs.

Here is a little guidance for those just starting out to help you along the way.

Thebold, italic, underline, code, img, quote, etc... buttons are very simple:

Code:


private void boldButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (myRichTextBox.SelectionLength > 0)
               "[b ]" + myRichTextBox.SelectedText + "[/b ]";
            else
                myRichTextBox.SelectedText = "[b ][/b ]";
        }

Basically all that is saying is "if iv selected some text, wrap it in the desired tags, else just put the tags wherever the cursor is".

The same process can be repeated for every button, or if you feel daring, use the "object sender" as a reference and you can use one void for all of the buttons.

One thing that you dont see very often is a "preview post" button, but its a very nice feature and is relatively simple:

Code:

private void PreviewSelectedPostButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string thePost = postContents.Text;

            if (thePost.Length == 0)
            {
                MessageBox.Show(
                "The post cannot be empty.", 
                "Empty Post", 
                MessageBoxButtons.OK, 
                MessageBoxIcon.Error);
                return;
            }

            // Line-Breaks
            thePost = thePost.Replace("\n", "<br / >");
            // BOLD
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[b ]", "<b>");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/b ]", "</b>");
            // ITALIC
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[i ]", "<i >");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/i ]", "</i >");
            // UNDERLINE
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[u ]", "<u >");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/u ]", "</u >");
            // CODE box
            thePost = thePost.Replace(
            "[code ]", 
            "<br /><div style=\"color: #880000; font-size: 11px; line-height: 110%; font-family: verdana,arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; background: #dedede none repeat scroll 0 0; margin-left: 10px; padding: 5px;\"> ");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/code ]", "</div><br />");
            // QUOTE box
            thePost = thePost.Replace(
            "[quote ]", 
            "<br /><div style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 11px; line-height: 110%; font-family: verdana,arial,verdana,tahoma,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; background: #eeeeee none repeat scroll 0 0; margin-left: 10px; padding: 5px;\"> ");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/quote ]", "</div><br />");
            // Images
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[img ]", "<img src=\"");
            thePost = thePost.Replace("[/img ]", "\" /> <br />");
            // Colours
            thePost = Regex.Replace(thePost, "\\[ color=(.*?)](.*?)\\[/color ]", "<font color=\"$1\">$2</font>");

            string htmlPath = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\preview.html";

            using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(htmlPath))
            {
                writer.WriteLine("<html><head><title>Multi-Poster Ultimate - Preview</title></head><body>");
                writer.WriteLine("<table width=\"600px\" border=\"0\"><tr><td>");
                writer.Write(thePost);
                writer.WriteLine("</td></tr></table></body></html>");
            }

            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(htmlPath);
        }

What that's doing is using a simple string.replace method for most of the string replacements and regex for the harder color.
Its all wrapped in a 600px div to make it look more like it would when a post is sent to a forum.

Its then saved as a "html" file and then executed, and thus viewed in your default browser.

You will need to add the "System.IO" namespace for the StreamWriters and also "System.Text.RegularExpressions" for the regex command.

And thats about it, nice and simple, and very useful to the user!

(Spaces have been added to the [TAGs] as not to get parsed

)

jayfella Reviewed by jayfella on 5th Dec 2009. Post creator main buttons c# Source Ok. I see a lot of people writing post-creator applications, which is a great way to start writing programs. Here is a little guidance for those just starting out to help you along the way. Thebold, italic, underline, code, img, quote, etc... buttons are very simple: Rating: 5

**Royal King** · 6th Dec 2009, 12:05 AM

Cool nice one m8. Thanks (:

**jayfella** · 6th Dec 2009, 04:59 PM

Simple addition for the "single void for all buttons"

Code:

// Convert "object sender" to a button control, so we can manipulate/get data
Button SenderButton = (Button)sender;

// Then for example:
if (SenderButton.Name == "BoldButton")
    DoStuff();
if (SenderButton.Name == "ItalicButton")
    DoDifferentStuff()

**BounceR** · 6th Dec 2009, 05:09 PM

ru giving post creator tutorial??

**jayfella** · 6th Dec 2009, 05:26 PM

no not really a tutorial, just some quick help for those trying to make a post creator. A lot of users being by creating one because its the best thing to start your programming life and at the same time give something to the community, so i just basically gave some quick tips to get them started

**?RaJ?** · 8th Dec 2009, 11:58 AM

Private Sub Winsock3_Connect()
Dim strPacket As String, strData As String
Dim theMsg As String
Dim fValue As String

PoStInG = True

If gotToken = False And Option1.Value = True Then Status "Getting Security Token, Plz Wait"
If gotToken = True And Option1.Value = True Then Status "Posting Thread, Please Wait"
If Option2.Value = True Then Status "Posting Thread, Please Wait"
theMsg = Replace(Escape(Text3.Text), "%20", "+")
theMsg = Replace(theMsg, "%2E", ".")
theMsg = Replace(theMsg, "&", "%26")
fValue = Split(theSection, "f=")(1)

strData = "subject=" & theTitle.Text & "&message=" & theMsg & "&wysiwyg=0&taglist=&iconid=0&s=&securitytoken =" & secToken & "&f=" & fValue & "&do=postthread&posthash=&poststarttime=&loggedinu ser=&sbutton=Submit+New+Thread&parseurl=1&emailupd ate=9999&polloptions=4"

strPacket = "POST " & vbPart & "newthread.php?do=postthread&f=" & fValue & " HTTP/1.1" & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Host: " & vbHost & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1" & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8" & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Connection: keep-alive" & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Cookie: " & lstCookies.Text & vbCrLf
strPacket = strPacket & "Content-Length: " & Len(strData) & vbCrLf & vbCrLf

Winsock3.SendData strPacket & strData
End Sub
Private Sub Winsock3_dataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
On Error GoTo HelLz
Dim sData As String
Winsock3.PeekData sData
If InStr(1, sData, "Moved") Or InStr(1, sData, "Found") Then
Status "Thread Created Successfully"
PostCount = PostCount + 1
SBar1.Panels(3).Text = "Post Count : " & Format(PostCount, "00")
PoStInG = False
If aPostAll.Checked = True Then Call nextPost
ElseIf InStr(1, sData, "duplicate", vbTextCompare) Then
Status "Thread Already Exist's, Try Another"
PoStInG = False
If aPostAll.Checked = True Then Call nextPost
ElseIf InStr(1, sData, "Your submission could not be processed") Then
Status "Grabbing Security Token"
gotToken = False
secToken = Replace(getData(sData, "SECURITYTOKEN = ", ";", True), Chr(34), vbNullString)
If Len(secToken) > 7 Then
gotToken = True: Status "Security Token Grabbed"
Winsock3.Close
Winsock3.Connect vbHost, 80
Else
If InStr(1, secToken, "guest", vbTextCompare) Then Status "Re-Login To vBulletin Board"
Status "Error Grabbing Token"
End If
End If
HelLz:
Exit Sub
End Sub

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thats a basic VB6 code to create thread's @ vbulletin forums !!

i made this like 1 year back

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