On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 06:50:59 -0500
"Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Well, yes and no.  Your comments and those of someone else make it
> >  
> > clear that you're not looking for a rich text editor that can do this:
> > http://ckeditor.com/demo#full so much as one that gives bold / italics
> > etc.
> >
> > So I'm throwing one together, styles so far:
> 
> Terry, if you are going to do anything on this subject, I would prefer
> that you do the QWebKit stuff sufficient to do ckeditor.  But the choice is
> yours.

I've thrown a QTextEdit based rich text editor out there for people to
look at.  I was quite pleased with the way the free_layout system was
able to swap out the body pane for the alternative widget, no changes
needed.  The body pane is just moved into a tab in the tab pane, which
is what free_layout has always done with essential widgets when they
have no pane of their own.

The QWebKit / ckeditor idea could be a simple route to a full featured
editor, it just seems a bit heavy to essentially run an embedded
virtual machine (javascript) for this when QTextEdit is a rich text
editor, just one without a GUI of controls available.  It still
surprises me there isn't one out there.  But it seems the current
interest in rich text is mainly for minimal bold / strikeout kind of
stuff, such that the controls needed to get there in QTextEdit are
trivial.

The work I've just done was at least 50% on managing the alternate
editor, so that would be applicable to the QWebKit / ckeditor approach
too.

Cheers -Terry

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