With regard to (d) for my specific need it pivotpad, I just want to bind some convenient keys to "logical" cursor movements but I think in general, you'll want to have a layer of indirection on keystroke to "doing something in the editor like cursor movement" so that more than just a keystroke can invoke a logical action. Obviously, keystroke defaults are a must.
-----Original Message----- From: Greg Brown [mailto:gkbr...@mac.com] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 10:08 AM To: dev@pivot.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFC] adding components to TextArea My comments below - Noel, please feel free to provide additional detail. > a) How can I extract out the current line and column number? TextArea#getRowIndex() will give you the line number. There is currently no way to determine the column index. However, assuming that we define "column index" as a character's offset within its row, it shouldn't be too tough to add. > b) Do you expose the "new paragraph" character as a static field in a class > somewhere? TextArea#setText(String) uses an instance of org.apache.pivot.text.PlainTextSerializer, which uses BufferedReader#readLine() internally. > c) How can I obtain the total height of each line? This is also not available at the moment, but it also shouldn't be too tough to add. > d) Are you planning on a logical mapping for keystrokes to "actions" and > from "actions" to behavior? Can you be a little more specific? What would an action do? What is a behavior?
