Hi Norbert, Norbert Sándor wrote: > Hello, > >> We'd appreciate some feedback > > I worked with the trunk versions of xwiki-gwt-dom and xwiki-gwt-user. > After checking them out, I slightly modified their poms (eg. removed the > parent declaration), then I could use them in my small example project > without problems. > > I have much more difficulties with xwiki-web-wysiwyg, it seems to be > more tightly coupled with xwiki functionalities. It's sad because the > RichTextEditor and the plugin system would be very useful in external > projects as well. > If you would split it to two projects, with the RichTextEditor and the > plugin system in one of them, the resulting code base would be very well > usable in external project as well. And seeing what you have already > developed, it's a waste (in the good sense of meaning of course :) that > this great editor is used only in xwiki. For example I think that many > Java projects that use fckeditor (some of my projects as well) would > happily switch to a gwt-based editor (and a cleaner Java-based plugin > system). But I understand that it would need much work to support > additional external requirements...
I'll send a proposal for splitting the wysiwyg module in order to make the editor reusable outside XWiki. Thanks a lot for your feedback! Marius > > Best regards: > Norbi > > > 2010.01.30. 6:03 keltezéssel, Sergiu Dumitriu írta: >> On 01/29/2010 09:46 PM, Norbert Sándor wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm experimenting with the RichTextArea (RTA) in a separate application, >>> not in XWiki. >>> >> Hi Norbert, >> >> That is great, we've been waiting for other applications to try and >> integrate the editor, since so far only in theory can it be reused by >> external applications, nobody tried it. We hope that this goes smoothly >> and nothing serious prevents the integration, and we'll help each other >> to fix any issues. >> >> >>> I checked out the xwiki-gwt-dom and xwiki-gwt-user, and RTA seems to >>> work well. (Until now I've created only a small demo application, with >>> an RTA and some buttons to execute various commands.) >>> >> We'd appreciate some feedback for this, like how much time did you spend >> so far, do you think it was easy or not to go this far, is the >> documentation good enough? >> >> I'm not a developer of the WYSIWYG, so I won't be able to answer your >> questions, but Marius will help you as soon as he can. >> >> >>> My questions are: >>> >>> 1. Pressing ENTER creates a BR element by default, is it possible to >>> create a P instead? >>> (The behaviour of the ENTER key inside a P can be set by executing >>> the insertbronreturn command, but the default document always >>> contains a BR, and if I set the initial content to<p></p>, I >>> cannot navigate the cursor inside the P...) >>> >>> 2. Is there a way to listen to selection events? >>> (I want to enable/disable some buttons based on the current >>> selection.) >>> >>> 3. Are there any extensions to the default RTA in the other parts of >>> XWiki? >>> (I mean for example commands and controls for editing TABLEs >>> visually, toolbars that are enabled/disabled based on the content >>> of the RTA, etc. - I haven't looked at all the source code yet, >>> it's huge :) >>> >>> That's for a starter :) >>> Thanks for your help in advance! >>> >>> Best regards: >>> -- >>> Norbert Sándor >>> >> I looked at your blog, and I saw this entry which I think we could >> benefit from in our build, since compiling the GWT code is the most >> resource consuming step in the build, except for running the integration >> tests. >> >> Marius, could you take a look at >> http://jvminside.blogspot.com/2010/01/gwt-2-debugging-and-compiling-faq.html >> >> I think that -XdisableCastChecking will improve runtime performance, and >> -draftCompile could be used in the default build profile for faster compile. >> >> >>> http://jvminside.blogspot.com/ >>> >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2655 - Release Date: 01/29/10 >> 10:08:00 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
