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Mon, 12 September 2005 13:12

Eclipse User

Hi All,

I'm currently investigating options for rich text editing in Eclipse. By
"rich text editing" I mean an editor somewhat functionally equivalent to the
Windows RichEdit control (i.e. mixed fonts, font styles, line spacing, etc).
Here's what I've looked into so far:

1) The SWT StyledText widget
2) The GEF sample Text editor project
3) Using a javascript based editor in a browser widget
4) Writing custom a custum SWT wrapper for the Windows RichEdit control.
5) Using the Swing JTextPane widget

None of these is completely satifactory :( Does anyone know of other
options? Are there any exiting 3rd party rich text editing widgets
available for Eclipse?

Thanks,

Josh

Re: Rich text editors [message #291231 is a reply to message #291230]

Mon, 12 September 2005 13:45

Eclipse User

Joshua Knauer wrote:
> [... snip ...]
> 1) The SWT StyledText widget
> 2) The GEF sample Text editor project
> 3) Using a javascript based editor in a browser widget
> 4) Writing custom a custum SWT wrapper for the Windows RichEdit control.
> 5) Using the Swing JTextPane widget
>
> None of these is completely satifactory :( Does anyone know of other
> options? Are there any exiting 3rd party rich text editing widgets
> available for Eclipse?

Have you tried using the JFace projects? org.eclipse.jface and
org.eclipse.jface.text ... TextViewer

Later,
PW

Re: Rich text editors [message #291233 is a reply to message #291231]

Mon, 12 September 2005 14:22

Eclipse User

Yes, I've worked with JFace Text. The lack of support for mixed fonts in
the same text control is the big missing piece :)

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:dg4et2$m5d$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Joshua Knauer wrote:
>> [... snip ...]
>> 1) The SWT StyledText widget
>> 2) The GEF sample Text editor project
>> 3) Using a javascript based editor in a browser widget
>> 4) Writing custom a custum SWT wrapper for the Windows RichEdit control.
>> 5) Using the Swing JTextPane widget
>>
>> None of these is completely satifactory :( Does anyone know of other
>> options? Are there any exiting 3rd party rich text editing widgets
>> available for Eclipse?
>
> Have you tried using the JFace projects? org.eclipse.jface and
> org.eclipse.jface.text ... TextViewer
>
> Later,
> PW

Re: Rich text editors [message #292351 is a reply to message #291233]

Wed, 05 October 2005 06:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: daniel.megert.eclipse.org

Joshua Knauer wrote:

>Yes, I've worked with JFace Text. The lack of support for mixed fonts in
>the same text control is the big missing piece :)
>
>
Support for multi-font is currently being investigated.

Dani

>
>"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
>news:dg4et2$m5d$1@news.eclipse.org...
>
>
>>Joshua Knauer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>[... snip ...]
>>>1) The SWT StyledText widget
>>>2) The GEF sample Text editor project
>>>3) Using a javascript based editor in a browser widget
>>>4) Writing custom a custum SWT wrapper for the Windows RichEdit control.
>>>5) Using the Swing JTextPane widget
>>>
>>>None of these is completely satifactory :( Does anyone know of other
>>>options? Are there any exiting 3rd party rich text editing widgets
>>>available for Eclipse?
>>>
>>>
>>Have you tried using the JFace projects? org.eclipse.jface and
>>org.eclipse.jface.text ... TextViewer
>>
>>Later,
>>PW
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

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