On 1/13/07, Kenneth McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Both TinyMCE and Google's web-based word processor (formerly named Writely) allow what seems to be editing by directly modifying the DOM (using innerHtml, DOM manipulation functions, etc.) rather than just typing text into some fort of textarea. I'm writing a Turbogrears application (though much more specialized) in which I want this sort of ability. So, a few questions: 1) I know there is a Turbogears embedding of TinyMCE. Are there more toolkit-type Turbogears text widgets that do this? (i.e. that provide base widgets on which one can build, rather than a single monolithic application.)
there is another javascript-tool call kupu, most people don't know it but it's the default in Plone and is very nice, you could work on integrating it.
2) How does something such as Writely figure out where to move the cursor when the user moves it vertically, i.e. how does it find the position on the next/previous line whose x-coordinate is closest to that of the cursor before the cursor is moved? I can think of a couple of ways to do this, but want to make sure I'm not missing something easier.
with a LOT of javascript goodness.
3) How is mouse-drag selection of editable text carried out? Last I heard, the Range type objects available in the JavaScript DOM weren't reliable enough or crossplatform enough to be used in this way.
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