Re: Soft wrapping

From: Mike Schrag (mschra..dimension.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 12:02:41 EDT

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    doh.
    my kryptonite.

    On May 30, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:

    > 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.
    >>> Suite L100, 239 - 10th Ave. SE
    >>> Calgary, AB T2G 0V9
    >>>
    >>> 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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