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WebTextEditor - Feature Request

bernard — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:18:40 GMT

Hi Jean,

I've submit this as feature request #1283. Right now, we only can use the line-presentation like you mentioned before. We still observing the issue that you mentioned in http://intersoftpt.com/Community/WebTextEditor/WebTextEditor---Several-issues/ .

I'll let you know if I heard anything regarding this feature request. Hope this helps.

Regards,
Bernard

WebTextEditor - Feature Request

JNguimb — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:29:00 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

No, I am not using WebPad in my projects, as I do not want to recreate functionality that already exists in WebTextEditor. I am referring to WebPad only to illustrate what I am talking about.

What I am suggesting is very simple. Please see the four screenshots attached below.

On the one hand:

Editor-1: Editor with 5 empty sections

Editor-2: Editor with text in section-1.

1.     By the time I was finished typing this text, the other four sections had disappeared from view;

2.     Also, all sections continue to expand downward concurrently with each additional keystroke (from any key on the keyboard);

3.     Furthermore, after expanding, the sections do not shrink back to the original size even if the text entered is deleted.
            4. Finally, yes, WebTextEditor has its own vertical scrollbar, but sections do not.

So if you had large chunks of text to enter into the sections, you may have to scroll up/down a kilometer inside the editor to find and put sections into view for editing.

On the other hand:

WebPad-1: pretending to be WebTextEditor with 5 sections in tab-presentation, instead of line-presentation.

WebPad-2: to show how all sections would remain visible in the editor for quick access, if in tab-presentation, regardless of how much content is entered into a section.

All I am asking is whether it would be possible to give us another option for showing sections in WebTextEditor, so that, when enabling sections in the editor, a user can choose, via properties, whether to work with the sections in line-presentation or in tab-presentation.

Regards
Jean

WebTextEditor - Feature Request

bernard — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:00:59 GMT

Hi Jean,
Could you explain me more detail scenario that you want to achieve using this scenario? Maybe you can explain about the content that will show in each Tab. I wonder if each tab doesn't show any scrollbar?

Container inside editor only expand because it doesn't have same behaviout as Text area. In use, WebTextEditor will make new HTML form inside its container so it can have many different input inside. Normally, WebTextEditor has its own vertical scrollbar to scroll down the content inside its container. Perhaps, you set overflow value to hidden somewhere in your project. Is it possible for you to use WebTab as TextEditor like in WebPad.aspx? Maybe I'll put this as feature request after I really know the scenario that you want to achieve. Look forward to hear any feedback from you so I can help you further.

Regards,
Bernard

WebTextEditor - Feature Request

JNguimb — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:22:34 GMT

Hello,

I earlier reported a number of issues related to the use of sections in WebTextEditor in this post.

Now, I have the following feature request:
Can you implement Tab-like presentation of sections in WebTextEditor? - (see attached screenshot, which was taken from WebPad sample)/

Indeed, because sections in the editor only expand (they do not resize to shrink when text is deleted) and do not have individual vertical scrollbars (to allow fixing their height), having more than 2 or 3 sections clutters the textarea of the editor (making it "too busy"); and it becomes difficult to manage the content, as scrolling up and down to find the sections in teh editor becomes excessive.

A tab-like presentation, on the other hand (see screnshot), has proven to be superior with respect to breaking down and managing the content of a large document, in addition to being visually more attractive.

Perhaps you could provide tab-presentation as a second option for us to choose when enabling sections in the editor?

Best Regards

Jean