2015-09-22 18:32 GMT+02:00 Benoît Minisini <gam...@users.sourceforge.net>: > Le 22/09/2015 18:22, Fabien Bodard a écrit : >> 2015-09-22 18:08 GMT+02:00 Benoît Minisini <gam...@users.sourceforge.net>: >>> Le 22/09/2015 18:03, Benoît Minisini a écrit : >>>> Le 22/09/2015 17:49, Moviga Technologies a écrit : >>>>>> yes :-)... and maybe with a better synthax. But for that i think you >>>>>> will wait or do it yourself. >>>>> >>>>> (Since you reply by mail, and not in the bugtracker, I reply you also by >>>>> mail) >>>>> >>>>> I am afraid my competence is not enough to undertake such a task. I have >>>>> been trying to look at the gb.form.editor code, and it is a bit hard to >>>>> get a hold on, and there are very few comments explaining what is going >>>>> on. >>>>> >>>> >>>> It won't help you a lot. TextEditor is really made and optimized for >>>> displaying and editing text using a monospace font. Automatic >>>> line-breaking was added recently, and is a sort of hack. >>>> >>>> Making a rich-text editor is a bit like programming something like >>>> LibreOffice Writer, with less features. >>>> >>>> You must have paragraphs, using any font, size, colours, style... >>>> applied to any group of characters in the paragraph. >>>> >>>> Then you need a layouting routine that handle where and how to display >>>> paragraph. >>>> >>>> Then you need to display a cursor, the selected text. >>>> >>>> You need to be able to transform any mouse position in the editor window >>>> into a position in the text. >>>> >>>> You have to implement an undo/redo system. >>>> >>>> Only the rest is similar to what exists in TextEditor: keyboard >>>> handling, shortcuts, saving and loading. It's the simpler. >>>> >>>> Maybe if I have time I will make a library that implement the paragraph >>>> stuff on top of a vectorial canvas (i.e. a sort of DrawingArea that >>>> contains vectorial objects). >>>> >>>> It's interesting to have a "canvas" layer between the paragraphs and the >>>> final ScrollArea. Because after you can "easily" add other objects, like >>>> images, tables, vectorial drawings... until you have a real text processor. >>>> >>>> Interesting project if you have at least six months. >>>> >> 5 years for me >>> >>> And there is (of course) many technical problems like : displaying fonts >>> correctly in all situations when format changes. LibreOffice is now able >>> to do that yet. >>> >>> For example, Gambas paint methods need more feature to be able to >>> displaying text using no hinting whatever how the font system is configured. >>> >>> And you need handle right-to-left languages too! >>> >>> And you need to handle paragraphs having left-to-right and right-to-left >>> languages mixed! >>> >>> ...etc. >> Well i will concentrate my effort on my term :-) for now. >> >> ... and grappe cutting because it's time... 3 weeks of hard work at least. > > > Good luck! With my family we have just picked almost half a ton of > apples on just three apple trees. It's time too...
Well so now you have just to press it... fermenting apple juce to obtain cider... distillate it and you will have a fabulous Calva !! :-P hip!... i love Calva ! > > -- > Benoît Minisini > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user -- Fabien Bodard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
