RichTextArea: API Review

[Andy Goryachev]

Dear fellow developers:



Thank you for the early feedback on the RichTextArea proposal [0].



We are moving to the next phase by submitting the public pull request [1].  The main goal is to include the new control in an incubating module [8], hopefully in jfx24, as a means of putting non-final API in the hands of developers while the API and implementation progress towards either finalization or removal in a future release.



For your convenience, two test applications are provided - RichTextAreaDemoApp and CodeAreaDemoApp which demonstrate the new controls with a number of different models.  In addition to these two testers, please check out a simple standalone rich text editor application, RichEditorDemoApp,



We would encourage anyone - the javafx developers, and especially the application developers, to take a look at the public API [3].  It's probably less important at this stage to do a deep code review of the implementation, but we would certainly appreciate and welcome your code review comments.



Thank you in advance,

-andy





[0] Proposal: https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/main/doc/RichTextArea/RichTextArea.md

[1] Pull request: https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1524

[2] Discussion points: https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/main/doc/RichTextArea/RichTextAreaDiscussion.md

[3] API specification (javadoc): https://cr.openjdk.org/~angorya/RichTextArea/javadoc

[4] CSS Reference: https://cr.openjdk.org/~angorya/RichTextArea/javadoc/javafx.graphics/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html

[5] Behavior doc: https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/jfx/blob/8301121.RichTextArea/doc-files/behavior/RichTextAreaBehavior.md

[6] RichTextArea RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301121

[7] Previous (now obsolete) draft pull request: https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1374

[8] Incubator module JEP: https://github.com/kevinrushforth/jfx/blob/javafx.incubator/INCUBATOR-MODULES.md

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