On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Danno Ferrin <[email protected]> wrote: > That. Is. Awesome. > > I don't mean to dissuade you from your code donation, but I feel there may > be more value in keeping this as a separate third party control. The > biggest reason is that once it is in the core it will be released in the > same schedule as the JDK, with no options to do it on it's own schedule. A > secondary a rich third party control ecosystem is viewed as a sign of > maturity, and this control in the third party realm would go a long way to > growing that perception. > > Perhaps ControlsFX or JFXtras would be interested if you don't want to > manage the release and promotion cycles yourself.
Thanks, Danno, for your input. There might be a licensing problem. Both ControlsFX and JFXtras use the New BSD license, while in my code there are pieces based on the OpenJFX code, so I guess I'm stuck with GPLv2 with Classpath Exception. Best, Tomas > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Tomas Mikula <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I implemented a text control that supports assigning style classes to >> portions of text. It is meant to be used for syntax highlighting. >> >> https://github.com/TomasMikula/CodeAreaFX >> >> The code is based on the original TextArea code. This implies the >> license to be GPLv2 with the Classpath Exception. I would be happy to >> contribute it back to the OpenJFX project. >> The idea of using a ListView of TextFlows is borrowed from Tom >> Schindl's StyledTextArea >> (http://fxexperience.com/2013/02/interview-with-tom-schindl-2/). >> >> Check out the demos and the APIs. Feedback really appreciated. Any >> help with the issues >> (https://github.com/TomasMikula/CodeAreaFX/wiki/Known-Issues) would be >> awesome. >> >> Best, >> Tomas > >
