Hello again. I hate to be a bother :) But I'm still not having a lot of luck in this area. Does anyone have any suggestion that might help me on my way?
Kind regards On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Wouter Schaart <willow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of writing book authoring software, I'd like to use a > rich text editor for this, and it seems that TextPane and Document could > fit my requirements. I've tried to find information about the two but they > seem to be two very scarsely documented systems. > > Ideally I'd be able to force my documents into very strict structures. > Much like XML documents can be forced into very strict structure. > <Book> > <Title> > <Author> > <Summary> > <Section> > <Summary> > <Chapter> > <Title> > <Summary> > <Body> > > I'd like to be able to show and hide parts of the text, for example show > only summaries when the user desires it. Or show only chapters 3 to 5. > Preferably without removing the rest of the document. > > Further I'd like to be able to add todo information and annotations to > random spans of text. Preferably overlapping each other and spanning the > elements above, but not being able to do so is something I'd be able to > live with. Of course those spans should remain anchored to the relevant > text, additions and removals should not cause problems. > > I looked into the pivot code and it seems to me that while document with > some subclassed nodes would be very able to represent the information I > want to put into it, Textpane has some very clear assumptions on how to > work with them. And clearly did not have my unusal document structure in > mind. > > I'm hoping someone could give me some advice on how to proceed. Can I use > TextPane and somehow inject my rules on how to work with a document there? > Or should I build my own TextPaneish control? I've tried to do this but got > stuck on the skin the function of which isn't apparent to me just now. Is > there some tutorial on how to build your own widget available? > > Kind regards >
