On Wed, 21 May 2014 19:19:32 -0700 (PDT) nakedmind <eric.medina.atie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 12:16:45 AM UTC+8, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, nakedmind > > <eric.medi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:20:44 PM UTC+8, Terry wrote: > > >> > > >> I wonder if it would be sense for Leo's select body code to use > > >> a hook or something similar to find the body widget, so that > > >> plugins could change the meaning of "the body widget" more > > >> easily. Will make a note. > > >> > > > > > > I don't know if it's related but I've had this idea for a while > > > now. > > What if > > > you can have multiple body editors for different data like > > > ordinary > > text, > > > rich text, image, etc. > > > There is a global dictionary that maps node directives to body > > > editors. Plugins can add new node directives and select which > > > existing body > > editors > > > to use by just > > > updating the global dictionary. Or plugins can add new body > > > editors. So > > if > > > create a plugin that introduces a @pdf node directive and a > > corresponding > > > pdf viewer, I can just update the global dictionary and leo will > > > know > > that > > > nodes with headlines starting with the aforementioned directive > > > will use > > my > > > plugin's pdf viewer. The body editor may even be an external > > application. > > > > Not a bad idea. In effect, this would be a generalization of the > > viewrendered or viewrendered2 plugins. At present, these plugins > > have this logic hard coded. > > > > It's surprisingly complicated to switch the rendering widget > > dynamically. It's conceivable that a more general approach would > > be less complex/buggy, but I wouldn't get my hopes up :-) > > > > Edward > > > > I'd like to take a stab at this once I get some free time. Can you > give some pointers as to where in leo's code I should start hacking. > I have limited knowledge on leo's code but i'm pretty experienced > with pyqt. > > Eric I'm going to repost a repost of an old post about how I think Leo's body editor(s) should ideally integrate. Two old threads: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/leo-editor/M-8TcxYAUpI/OovFbolHAzoJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/IBnrAH2xIQI/OdQ-kzt2cjcJ Cheers -Terry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
