Feedback Requested: Editor Applet for Zope?
Hi all, 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. Thanks in advance, Heiko -- heiko.stoermer@innominate.de innominate AG networkingpeople fon: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de
----- Original Message ----- From: Heiko Stoermer <news-list.zope@innominate.de>
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
Our entire site (5 MB data.fs - 97% form and method objects, no data - that is kept in RDMS) is hand coded in the little text boxes with occasional CUT-PASTE IN EDITOR- SEARCH-REPLACE-CUT PASTE BACK TO ZOPE. A simple Java applet that just did search/search and replace and had line numbers would be all I would need. I have thought about how lovely such a beast would be and although I am a whiz at javascript I do not yet have the necessary Java skills to implement such a wondrous thing. Would be glad to help test it. __________________________________________________________________ Jim Sanford . Database Engineer / \ / Accelerated Technology, Inc. / / 720 Oak Circle Drive East / / \ Mobile, AL 36609 / / \ Voice: 334-661-5770 fax: 334-661-5788 / \ E-Mail: jsanford@atinucleus.com Web: http://www.atinucleus.com Nucleus. All You NEED in an RTOS. Royalty Free __________________________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Heiko Stoermer <news-list.zope@innominate.de> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:38 AM Subject: [Zope] Feedback Requested: Editor Applet for Zope? Hi all, 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. Thanks in advance, Heiko -- heiko.stoermer@innominate.de innominate AG networkingpeople fon: +49.30.308806-0 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
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). -- ___ // Zen (alias Stuart Bishop) Work: zen@cs.rmit.edu.au // E N Senior Systems Alchemist Play: zen@shangri-la.dropbear.id.au //__ Computer Science, RMIT WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zen
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