About

S60 HTML Editor is a simple text editor for Symbian S60 devices designed for editing HTML files. The major feature of the editor is fast and easy inserting HTML tags and entities.

The editor is written in Python programming language.

This manual describes version 0.7 of the editor.

Requirements And Installation

You must have Python for S60 installed on your device first.

You must have appuifw2 extension module installed on your device as well.

Currently the program is available as SIS-file and as source code. If you have S60 3rd Ed. device, you can install it from the SIS-file as a standalone application with own button in main menu.

Otherwise, you can simply copy the source code file to the \Python directory on the device or memory card (where Python is installed). Then start Python interpreter, press left softkey for the menu and select Run script. Select the scripts and press OK.

Hot Keys

The editor uses Call key as a functional key. Press:

Call + Left key to go to the beginning of line;
Call + Right key to go to the end of line;
Call + Up key to page up;
Call + Down key to page down;
Call + Select key to open the quick move menu.

To insert any HTML tag press Right softley. Select a tag from tag menu or press Custom... and type your own.

Main Menu

Press Options to open the main menu.

Insert tag - Open tags menu. You can quickly insert any tag you want. See below for detail.
Insert entity - Open entities menu. You can quickly insert the most often HTML entities.
Search - Open find and replace menu:

Find - Find the first occurence of entered text. Search starts from current position of cursor.
Find next - Find the next occurence of the same text.
Replace - Find and replace the first occurence of the text with another text string.

File - File operations:

Save - Save the file. For new files asks for the file name and path.
Save as - Save the text in another file. Asks for the name and the path.
Open - Load file. The current text will be replaced with contents of selected file.
New - Drop all text and clear the editor.
New from template - You can select simple HTML and HTML 4.0 transitional templates for the new file.
View in browser - Open the file you edit in built-in browser.

Help - Short help.

Help - Display short help on the major functions of the editor.
About - Show copyright info.

Exit - Close the editor and return to OS.

HTML Tag Insertion

To insert an HTML tag press Right softke (labeled Tag), select a tag and press OK. To select a tag you can simply scroll the list, or start typing to quickly find the necessary tag. Also, you can use Custom... option - just type the tag you need and press OK. Some tags requires attributes (like a or img). You will be prompted for the names of attributes. Press Cancel when finished. The tag will be inserted to the text. It will have both open and close tags if needed.

Also you can select a text and insert tag using right softkey, selected text will be surrounded with selected tag.

That's all!

Screenshots


Main Window	Main Menu	File Browser

Quick Move Menu	Tag Selection Menu	Entity Selection Menu

Comment by krajva...@gmail.com, Jan 8, 2009

THX for this program. A was looking for something like this. I try to use on N 95 8GB. Some of stored pages (something.html) on my nokia is not gona open. Program wrote: Cannot read file E:/aaa/aaa.html . What I do wrong? THX.