This sounds pretty much what I had in mind. The freewin plugin actually does the same (in its own separate window). VR/VR3 also replace the rendering widget type depending on what is to be rendered. Currently VR3 can optionally render to a tab in the log frame instead of to a new frame within the overall Leo window. So we're not far off.
On Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 8:37:59 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > I actually implemented something similar in a private 'leoapp' (app that > lives in a .leo file) I wrote for myself a few years back. Pretty simple > to get done, IIRC. > > My general pattern was to have a controller class that contained two > 'view' widgets (a QTextBrowser for rendered HTML, and a QTextEdit for > editing). The controller class had a wrapper widget that also had an > 'edit' toggle button. When 'edit' is clicked, a callback is fired off to > remove the active view widget and replace it with the new one (and set some > state in the controller so it doesn't lose track of things). Content is > updated between the two widgets whenever this swap happens. Internally > they are two completely different objects, but to the user, the swap is > fairly seamless. > > I did write this app relying on PyQt5, unfortunately, so I have a fair bit > of updating to do if I want it to work on modern Leo. Ah well. > > Jake > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 6:57 AM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Except that standard Leo nodes don't render graphics and other non-text >>> items. That's a big difference. We get around it to a degree with VR/VR3. >>> Hmm, instead of rendering those nodes in a separate frame as VR/VR3 does, >>> we could overlay the rendering frame over the editing frame. We could >>> switch in and out of rendering mode to allow editing. I bet that wouldn't >>> be too hard. One way would be to use a 2-frame tabbed widget. Leo would >>> then have no disadvantage compared with Trillium and its ilk, and would >>> keep all of its advantages. >>> >>> Yowee! >>> >> >> I'm interested. Let's see what you can do. >> >> Edward >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "leo-editor" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS2oz4FPGXyuztu8e%3DpA3_vLG3DCF2x24p1FM_kSrRPJKw%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAMF8tS2oz4FPGXyuztu8e%3DpA3_vLG3DCF2x24p1FM_kSrRPJKw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/2903cdcc-8f76-456a-9723-f448afecba32n%40googlegroups.com.
