Re: [Zope] Feedback Requested: Editor Applet for Zope?

2000-05-24 Thread Stuart 'Zen' Bishop

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Heiko Stoermer wrote:

 I've been working with Zope for quite some time now, and one point that
 always slows me down is DTML or SQL source editing in the well-known
 wonderful textboxes. You all like them...
 
 My question:
 Do you like the idea of having a slim java-based editor applet instead
 of the textarea? 
 (NO, not a 400k editor with WYSIWYG preview and an exotic scripting
 engine - it's supposed to be _very_ slim)
 
 Please give me feedback on this, because if the community wants such a
 thing, I might start working on it.

I would love one.

If you you proceed, it would be nice if the applet allowed pluggable
backends. In this way, one applet would exist that would allow the
user to select one of a number of different editors to use (which
should keep the Brief users, the Emacs users, the Notepad users and the
Vi users all happy - provided they can be bothered implementing their
own backend).

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Re: [Zope] Feedback Requested: Editor Applet for Zope?

2000-05-23 Thread Jason Cunliffe


- Original Message -
From: Heiko Stoermer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 My question:
 Do you like the idea of having a slim java-based editor applet instead
 of the textarea?
 (NO, not a 400k editor with WYSIWYG preview and an exotic scripting
 engine - it's supposed to be _very_ slim)

 Please give me feedback on this, because if the community wants such a
 thing, I might start working on it.

 Thanks in advance,
 Heiko

Hello Heiko

Yes please!. Sounds like a great idea.
..and now for some wishlist slim features:

- maximise the text area horizontal + vertical quickly and easily [and then
store/fetch the prefs to/from a zope object  or method somewheres]

- scale type [change font size + font]

- some basic coloring or styling please... dtml-iwuyi  in colorA, other
non-dtml tags in colorB, anythin in "" in colorC, etc.

- keep a scrolling list on one margin of DTML so that one can click on items
to allow faster more accurate code paste [yes I am a lousy typist adn dtml
is _so_ picky] . The list can be preloaded with the obvious and not so
obvious and also  remembers recent chunks of dtml slilm 'history'.

maybe this request puts it over the size limit - but maybe not..:-)
goodluck

- Jason



Jason CUNLIFFE = NOMADICS.(Interactive Art and Technology).Design Director


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