Am 21.04.2012 um 22:22 schrieb "[email protected]" <[email protected]>:
> Yeah VM works on iOS.
Cool!

> My use case is private, nothing fancy. I just value having decent TextEditor 
> and friends.
> 
> For an OO thing like  Smalltalk Pharo, it would be a shame to now have a top 
> notch UI kit for editing text. 
I totally agree. That's one reason why I started the Styled Text Editor 
project. ;-)

Cheers,
Bernhard

> I hope to be able to provide several decent samples so that newcomers don't 
> have to go through the same pain as I go through now.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 2012/4/21 Bernhard Pieber <[email protected]>
> Thanks for the encouragement!
> 
> The necessary funding depends on the effort of course, and this in turn 
> depends on the approach one uses for porting. We have an idea how to do the 
> port to Pharo as an external package. Do you have a concrete use case in mind?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
> 
> P.S. Did you succeed building the Mac VM on Xcode 4.3 yet?
> 
> Am 21.04.2012 um 21:17 schrieb "[email protected]" <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Great news!
>> 
>> I am currently busy looking after Text, TextAttributes, TextConstants, 
>> Paragraph... and god, it went through the grinder and it shows.
>> 
>> I understand the reasons that led to such things but Collections-Text is in 
>> need of improvement for sure.
>> 
>> How much funding would be necessary to get this port done?
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
>> 2012/4/21 Bernhard Pieber <[email protected]>
>> Dear Smalltalkers,
>> 
>> I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new 
>> Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub [1]. The Styled Text Editor was first 
>> presented by me at last year's ESUG in Edinburgh [2]. Thanks to ESUG the 
>> presentation was recorded [3].
>> 
>> The Styled Text Editor is a framework for rich text editing using styles as 
>> known from popular word processors like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. It 
>> features paragraph and character styles, allowing easy text formatting using 
>> styles only. It is intended for applications where users need to work with 
>> good looking rich text in a simple and fast way.
>> 
>> Rich text commonly refers to text with formatting information like different 
>> fonts, sizes, alignments, and emphasis. To make editing as simple as 
>> possible instead of individual formatting information end users apply styles 
>> to parts of the text. Editing is made fast by keyboard shortcuts for text 
>> navigation, selection, and styles selection. Where possible the feel of 
>> widely used rich text editors is supported.
>> 
>> It includes many features like
>> - numbered and bulleted list paragraph styles
>> - support for images
>> - multiple level undo and redo
>> - text completion using various glossaries including a dictionary of English 
>> with about 166.000 words
>> - RTF clipboard (on OS X VMs with the ClipboardExtendedPlugin)
>> 
>> The Styled Text Editor is developed in Cuis with the plan to eventually port 
>> it to Squeak and Pharo. The development of the Styled Text Editor inspired 
>> many changes to Cuis itself, and It is the first package to use the brand 
>> new DVCS based development process for external packages for Cuis 4.0.
>> 
>> The idea and funding was provided by me, Bernhard Pieber and my company 
>> Software Generation. The implementation was done by Juan Vuletich, the 
>> mastermind behind Cuis. Thanks Juan for the close cooperation. It was and 
>> still is great fun to work with you.
>> 
>> We are looking forward to feedback from you. Fork it on GitHub [1], create 
>> issues and send us pull requests. ;-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bernhard Pieber
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/bpieber/Cuis-StyledTextEditor
>> [2] 
>> http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talks/StyledTextEditor
>> [3] 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&index=7&feature=plpp_video
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Philippe Back
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> 
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