RE: [Dynapyide-developer] Just an update.

[Creighton K. <cki...@ho...>]

>> I've already been looking into Jedit a lot, and also
>> looking into Jext and other Open Source editors to use
>> as a base for our development. Jedit has probably been
>> the strongest candidate, although, like you noticed
>> Jext have implemented Rhino, and would therefore also
>> have its advantages.=20

If you look at Jext it has Jedit's syntax highlighter as it core and =
also
uses the same plug-in architecture of older versions of Jedit.  Jext =
did add
a nice Rhino implementation that I have the code for. =20


>> I'm not sure we could do it just as a plugin, I think
>> we would need to do it as a own distribution with a
>> lot of the original Jedit core as our base (maybe so
>> much, it can be fully-compable with Jedit original
>> distribution and upgraded along-side the Jedit
>> development). But for a start we could aim to do
>> plugins, but eventually I think we'd have so many
>> special plugins it should be considered a new
>> distribution. We'll see...

I agree that this needs to be a full distribution with just some of =
Jedit at
its core.  What I was referring to when I said that we need to build =
the
system as a set of plug-ins on a common bus was just use Jedits base =
syntax
highlighter and bus system to handle the major architecture decisions.  =
Long
term we can look at merging it into the main Jedit but right now it is =
not
really possible for the graphical editor to exist in Jedit because this
represents a different view of the document and Jedit does not support =
this.


>> Dan Steinman, the originator of DynAPI have been
>> contributing his begun WYSIWYG dynlayer editor code to
>> this project.=20
>> If your still monitoring this list Dan: Do you have an
>> update or could you please submit your code pieces
>> again?

Does anyone know his email? I suggest we just email him directly.

Attached is the code for the basic editor.  It is extremely simplistic =
and I
have tried to comment what I did.  The only addition I did was to add a
WrapperApp, and WrapperAppFrame to hold the text area.  Most of the =
code I
did is in the WrapperAppFrame.  I did not modify any of the original =
Jedit
Syntax code (We will in the long run).


Creighton=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik V=E5glin [mailto:hv...@ya...]=20
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:54 AM
To: Creighton Kirkendall
Subject: Re: [Dynapyide-developer] Just an update.

I've already been looking into Jedit a lot, and also
looking into Jext and other Open Source editors to use
as a base for our development. Jedit has probably been
the strongest candidate, although, like you noticed
Jext have implemented Rhino, and would therefor also
have its advantages.=20

However, I've found the documentation and support for
Jedit to be stronger and wider spread. And if you feel
its a good base, I'm all with you to go ahead and use
it as sugested.

I'm not sure we could do it just as a plugin, I think
we would need to do it as a own distribution with a
lot of the original Jedit core as our base (maybe so
much, it can be fully-compable with Jedit original
distribution and upgraded along-side the Jedit
development). But for a start we could aim to do
plugins, but eventually I think we'd have so many
special plugins it should be considered a new
distribution. We'll see...

I've found this independent guide/essay on doing a
plugin for jedit, that might be of some help:

http://www.generationjava.com/projects/JEdit.shtml

Jedit is a part of the Giant Java Tree project, so you
might also want to check out http://www.gjt.org

Dan Steinman, the originator of DynAPI have been
contributing his begun WYSIWYG dynlayer editor code to
this project.=20
If your still monitoring this list Dan: Do you have an
update or could you please submit your code pieces
again?=20

Henrik

 --- Creighton Kirkendall <cki...@ho...>
skrev: > I have spent this weekend going over the code
for
> Jedit and some other open
> source editors.  By the way, most of the other
> editors that are written in
> java have Jedit as their core engine
> (Interesting???).  It seems we are the
> very first to attempt an open source DHTML wysiwyg
> editor in java.  I think
> we can borrow a lot of the architecture from Jedit
> as far as event bus,
> plug-ins and class-loading are concerned.  Where we
> need to concentrate our
> efforts now is design.  What can we use from jedit
> and what does not suit
> graphical editor.  I spend a lot of time poring over
> code I have some very
> good ideas of what the architecture of the main
> components are going to have
> to be.  The largest and most difficult is going to
> be the layout manager
> used in the design view.  All of the other pieces
> can be written or borrowed
> from Jedit or others relatively easily.  Jason, I
> want to talk some things
> over with you about the main design view element.  I
> think I am going to
> email the creator of Jedit and see if he knows of
> anyone who has tried to
> use their architecture for a graphical editor.  If
> anyone wants to
> understand where I am looking to take us next, spend
> some time looking at
> Jedit's code.  Pay special attention to the way
> plug-ins are written and how
> they are actually implemented in Jedit (note:
> description of writing a
> plug-in is in Jedits user manual  & you can check
> out the EditPlugin and
> EBPlugin code in the source tree.  Also look at the
> EditBus source.)  I
> think we should plan to implement the whole system
> as a bunch of plug-ins
> that add and remove messages from a bus.   This will
> allow us to work
> separately on different sections with out having
> duplication of work.
> =20
> -- Javier I looked over the graphics and I think we
> are, for the beginning,
> going to have to use the System buttons (Mainly due
> to differences with mac,
> unix, and windows).  However icons for the buttons
> look good and I will see
> if I can implement those into the test browser,
> okay.  If you have a splash
> screen I'd like to see it. =20
> =20
> P.S. I also found an interesting embedded
> implementation of Rhino in a text
> editor called Jext.
> P.S.S. I have the editor working with file save and
> file load.  I also got
> copy and past working. =20
> =20
> =20
> Creighton=20
> =20

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