On 4/21/12, Bernhard Pieber bernhard@pieber.com wrote:
Am 21.04.2012 um 22:22 schrieb "phil@highoctane.be" phil@highoctane.be:
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 bernhard@pieber.com 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 "phil@highoctane.be" phil@highoctane.be:
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 bernhard@pieber.com 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/StyledText... [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&i...
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