On 4/21/12, Bernhard Pieber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ;-)
Great effort! Are there screen shots of the implementation available somewhere? In which format does it save the files? RTF? HTML? Something else? --Hannes > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Philippe Back >>> "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" >>> >>> Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: >>> [email protected] | Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: >>> http://philippeback.be >>> >>> High Octane SPRL >>> rue cour Boisacq 101 >>> 1301 Bierges >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Philippe Back >> "Helping you hit the top 3 outcomes you really want to achieve" >> >> Mob: +32(0) 478 650 140 | Fax: +32 (0) 70 408 027 Mail: [email protected] >> | Web: http://philippeback.eu | Blog: >> http://philippeback.be >> >> High Octane SPRL >> rue cour Boisacq 101 >> 1301 Bierges >> >
