Re: [jbosstools-dev] VPE editor

I agree with lazy Visual Editor update idea, it should be implemented some way, for example Swing also does it for painting swing Components. It looks like now all events are processed in the same thread, where they were fired. I have one more idea about VPE layout. I have crazy idea about getting rid of tabs at all. We have a Source/Visual part that have a split lets just have button that can hide source part or visual it almost the same like having source and visual tabs. You'll say, but we have preview tab. Why we cannot just let user switch visual part from edit mode to preview mode. This way it could be any combination of source/visual editing/preview. All actions to control the editor can be placed to Editor Related toolbar it will contains: 1. Preview Mode toggle button with two states (preview/visual editing); 2. Show Source with two states (source visible/source invisible) 3. Show Visual (visual visible/visual invisible) 4. Enabling/disabling formatting toolbar 5. Refresh 7. Synchronize 4. Preferences So the case for those people who dont like wisaul editor at all will simple: 1. Open editor first 2. Unset Show Visual 3. Editor becomes just source editor For visual editing only hide source For editing with preview switch preview mode For asynchronous preview set Synchronize So if we are generating ides about VPE, I also have some after playing with http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1304, http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1600, http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1227 I just have finished DocBook preview, it is preview because there are actually some issues in VPE that doesn't allow me to say it is editor. Short comment how to use it can be found here http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1304#action_12402618 with several screen-shots. What I did: 1. I created plug-in with VPE template (see attachment for http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1304) that is just a simple template that cover only DocBook tags I found in https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/documentation/development/us... and https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/documentation/guides/Legacy-... 2. Then I tried to make Visual Editor available in open with menu for XML files, but there is a simple way to handle it by menu Open With/Other... . 3. Start JBossTools with attached plug-in 4. Checkout Documentation plug-in from SVN 5. Open separate module mentioned above and see how it looks like. During my quest I realized there are several problems with VPE: 1. It always handle tags without prefixes as HTML tags 2. all tags without prefix is stored in same hash map in VpeTemplateManager and there is no way separate templates for html tags from docbook tags. That means I can use html tags in DocBook XML and it will work fine and vice versa. 3. It doesn't shows attributes for xml tags because some exceptions 4. There is no way to process <![CDATA[]> blocks What would be nice to have: 1. There is dialog with settings for unknown tags, it would be nice not only setup predefined parameters but do something meaningful: show unknown tag as known html tag 2. It wold be nice to say VPE use this template from eclipse workspace or local file system or even load all templates from defined location (related to http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1600) 3. VPE should provide the way to change default template for unknown tags. 4. VPE should allow points to location where to save templates created by Template Dialog mentioned above. 5. Combination of points 1 and 4 is a fast way to create simple templates as I did for DocBook. Regards Denis Snjezana Peco wrote: