On 4/21/12, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Am 21.04.2012 um 22:22 schrieb "phil at highoctane.be" <phil at 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 at 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 at highoctane.be" <phil at 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 at 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/StyledTextEditor
>>> [3]
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&index=7&feature=plpp_video
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>
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