Hello,
I'm working on an application for novel writers. One of the most
important parts is the text editor. Right now, I'm at a loss which way
is better: Should I embed OO in my application or is it more simple to
rewrite OO to match my needs?
Basically, I just need a rich text editor where I can control what the
user can do depending on where the cursor is in a document. Think of a
form editor where users can add text with bold and italics in one
place and lists+tables in another and in another, you can have an
image but no text, etc.
So I need to be able to control whether the user can modify something
at all and when he can modify the document, what he can do.
At first thought, it seems to be most simple to track the cursor
position and enable/disable menus and toolbars (along with the
keyboard shortcuts) depending on where it is. How could I achieve that
from within OO and from an embedded OO in Java?
I tried to use OOoBean to embed Writer in my application. After
getting rid of every toolbar I could find (using the deprecated
set*Visible()-API), I'm left with a last toolbar that won't go away
(it contains a combo for the formats, the current font, the font size,
bold, italics, underline, etc). My guess is that this is a "floater"
but I couldn't find the URL for this UI element so I can't hide it
with the XLayoutManager api. Any hints?
Lastly, I need to get rid of the rulers, too (the user shouldn't be
able to change the text width). I found "ViewSettings" which seems to
control whether rulers are visible or not, but I couldn't find how to
access this class from Java. Any pointers how to achieve that?
Also, any hints on how to get rid of any space between the text and
the frame would be most welcome. The user will always only edit small
scenes in the editor, so I'd like to give the impression of an endless
sheet of paper which is always as wide as the window (i.e. no print
margin, no gray area around the text).
Regards,
--
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark
"It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination.
Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits."
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