JavaFX for the Enterprise - Working Group (original) (raw)
Peter Pilgrim peter.pilgrim at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 10:37:49 PDT 2012
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On 18 October 2012 15:21, Peter Pilgrim <peter.pilgrim at gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 October 2012 23:00, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at> wrote:
The problem is that we only get a control which is able to render rich text but unfortunately no editor! To get an editor with features you see in todays IDEs is a very long way from what we get with jfx8. Tom I agree it is render mode. Maybe that is something that could be part of jfxtra project. The poor's editor component would be in my head a version of the gang-of-four Flyweight Pattern. You need some sort of Cursor and Document types. You need also some way of calculating Text Character extents. Horrible and complicated I know and agree, but those HTML5 and JavaScript people did something like this years ago with the editor that was written inside a browser (Dion Almear and Ben Galbreath the Ajaxian unrelated brothers with ``Bespin'') Well Jeremy Clarkson (BBC Top Gear fame, UK) might exclaim, "How hard can it be?" (all you do keep a record or row and column of cursor). Agree the devil is in the details. Fixed font versus proportional font. On the hand, I cannot remember seeing such a component listed in the roadmap at this year's JavaOne.
Tom Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 17.10.2012 um 18:01 schrieb Peter Pilgrim <peter.pilgrim at gmail.com>: Richard Bair gave a presentation on rich text components vis-a-vis TextPane and TextFlow at JavaOne
Supporting styles, bidirectional flow, Arabic /Hebrew maybe Chinese?, proper text wrapping and flowing around a defined area. So in affect we should be all able to write IDE in JavaFX If Kim is lurking about still on this list, he will definite understand the verbosity of the old Swing style text document Apis , I expect better with the new FX text Apis in Fx8 Sent from my iPhone 4S ==////== -- Peter Pilgrim,
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