Proposal: RichTextArea Control (Incubator)

[Daniel Peintner]

Hi Andy, others,

I highly appreciate and welcome the effort of a built-in RichTextArea 👍.

A question that popped up in my mind is whether this work might include
work in the area of *rich* TextField also? Probably it is out of scope.
Anyhow, JavaFX Textfields are used in even more areas in UI controls like
in tables etc and having the possibility to style them would be similarly
convincing.

As you might know, some alternative *external* solutions like RichTextFX do
provide next to StyleClassedTextArea also StyleClassedTextField.

Anyway, thank you very very much for the continuous development.

Sincerely,

-- Daniel

P.S: Maybe just one line about the use case I have in mind. We do offer
(based on RichTextFX) the ability to do "spell checking" on text (like you
know from all word processors). A red underline shows a possible mistake
and a ContextMenu offers fixes. This red line is therefore needed for text
in TextArea but also for text in TextField


On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM Andy Goryachev <andy.goryachev at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Dear JavaFX developers:
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>
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> We would like to propose a new feature - rich text control, RichTextArea,
> intended to bridge the functional gap with Swing and its
> StyledEditorKit/JEditorPane.  The main design goal is to provide a control
> that is complete enough to be useful out-of-the box, as well as open to
> extension by the application developers.
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> This is a complex feature with a large API surface that would be nearly
> impossible to get right the first time, even after an extensive review.  We
> are, therefore, introducing this in an incubating module,
> *javafx.incubator.richtext*.   This will allow us to evolve the API in
> future releases without the strict compatibility constraints that other
> JavaFX modules have.
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>
> Please take a look at the proposal [0], a list of discussion points [1],
> and the API Specification (javadoc) [2]. While the proposed API is ready
> for review, it isn't complete nor set in stone. We are looking for
> feedback, and will update the proposal based on the suggestions we receive
> from the community.  We encourage you to comment either in the mailing
> list, or by leaving comments inline in a draft pull request [3].  For
> context, the links to the original RFE [4] and a list of missing APIs
> related to rich text [5] are provided below.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Your friendly JavaFX development team.
>
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> References
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> [0] Proposal:
> https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/rich.jep.review/doc/RichTextArea/RichTextArea.md
>
> [1] Discussion points:
> https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/rich.jep.review/doc/RichTextArea/RichTextAreaDiscussion.md
>
> [2] API specification (javadoc):
> https://cr.openjdk.org/~angorya/RichTextArea/javadoc
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> [3] Draft Pull Request for API comments and feedback:
> https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/pull/1374
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> [4] RichTextArea RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301121
>
> [5] Missing APIs related to rich text control:
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8300569
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