Re: Soft wrapping

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 11:48:09 EDT

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    Reminder: you promised this to me for WOWODC! Otherwise, I am going
    to have to recommend using WebObjects Builder to reformat as
    "WOComponent Editor just can't handle it." :-P

    Chuck

    On May 30, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:

    > Tidy barfs on webobject tags, because they're not real tags -- it
    > chokes the code that checks to make sure the tag you are using is
    > allowed inside of the parent (like <table> can contain <tr>, etc).
    > The original HTML version of the HTML editor used Tidy for error
    > checking, but I had to remove it because patching tidy to support
    > arbitrary tags like WO (which can appear anywhere) was a HUGE
    > pain. So I don't think JTidy is going to hook you up any time soon.
    >
    > This is pretty much the #1 requested feature at this point, though,
    > so I'll step it up in priority.
    >
    > ms
    >
    > On May 30, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
    >
    >> Hi Lachlan,
    >>
    >> I also use TextMate, but I can't get the HTML Tidy command to work
    >> at all if there are any WO tags in the HTML. Do you know if
    >> there's a new HTML Tidy plug-in that fixes this? Whenever I try,
    >> all my HTML disappears in the TextMate window. BBEdit is too
    >> expensive.
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> ____________________________________________________________________
    >> Brendan Duddridge | CTO | 403-277-5591 x24 | brenda..lickspace.com
    >>
    >> ClickSpace Interactive Inc.
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    >>
    >> http://www.clickspace.com
    >>
    >> On May 29, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
    >>
    >>> On 30/05/2007, at 1:20 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
    >>>
    >>>> FWIW, as I work on projects that have components created long
    >>>> ago in WOBuilder, every time I need to edit a component that is
    >>>> not formatted legibly (for example long horizontal lines), I
    >>>> have found that using BBEdit to format it (takes about 20
    >>>> seconds) is worth the trouble. I basically have a BbEdit window
    >>>> always open with the HTML file type selected at bottom of the
    >>>> window. http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml
    >>>>
    >>>> Then in Eclipse I do a Cmd-A to select all the component HTML,
    >>>> paste into the BbEdit window, Cmd-A again to select all of what
    >>>> I just pasted in BBEdit, then select Markup/Utilities/Format
    >>>> menu, then Cmd-X to cut, then switch back to Eclipse (Cmd-tab),
    >>>> then paste Cmd-V. Now I have a nice hierarchially formatted html
    >>>> that is easier to work with.
    >>>
    >>> You might prefer doing this:
    >>> a) Preferences > General > File Associations > *.html
    >>> b) click Add... (Associated Editors)
    >>> c) click external programs, Browse... (I've chosen /usr/local/bin/
    >>> mate for TextMate)
    >>> d) click Default (optional)
    >>> e) if not default, right-click on file and select Open With >
    >>> 'editorOfChoice'.
    >>> g) if you save the file in the external program eclipse knows.
    >>>
    >>> That should save you a lot of copying/pasting.
    >>>
    >>>> Hopefully someday, we will have a format command in WOLips that
    >>>> will perform a similar style formatting.
    >>>
    >>> Sure.
    >>>
    >>>> On May 29, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> is there anything available that would toggle soft-wrapping the
    >>>>> html in the component editor?
    >>>>>
    >>>>> Currently I get no wrapping at all which is often fine but
    >>>>> there are times when I'd like to use a softwrap to save the
    >>>>> horizontal scrolling.
    >>>
    >>> with regards,
    >>> --
    >>>
    >>> Lachlan Deck
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >
    >
    >

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