On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, François Vaux wrote: > Hey there, > > I'm currently hacking a simple text editor, based on the > simple-editor.rb but greatly improved, which is called Solylace (a pun > on sole, lace and the french Sot-l'y-laisse).
Not sure how to look up that French... http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sot-l%27y-laisse&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DSot-l%2527y-laisse%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DC14 has some particularly odd phrasing in it :-) Good old machine translation. > At start I thought about using an edit_box, but it was way to limited, > and I liked the simple-editor, but as its name suggests, it's way too > simple. > I started implementing my own editable area with a simple para and > some classes to manage movement, selection with the keyboard, etc, > it's starting to look good, as you can see on > http://pub.yapok.org/solylace.png. Will look later. > > By the way, it would be nice if there was a way to make a para's text > selectable with the mouse. I think adding this behavior could be > useful for a lot of apps. Yes, I've asked for that before. Also would like a way to make the fonts bigger in Edit Boxes and Edit Lines. I expect these will come with time. I wonder if there's a wish list anywhere we can see? Exim used to have one when I last looked and some projects have accepted, rejected, and as yet undecided wish lists. This would sort of control the process somewhat, I think. [I wanted it because the Microsoft Narrator will speak the selection. I've found a way round that now.] > > Maybe an option like: para "Some text", :selectable => true > > -- > François. > Hugh
