text/html-editor resp. wordprocessor as a bean

[agis]

for enhancement of formating text in stead of using a simple text-area we're looking for a bean with formating capabilities for text, tables, paragraph-styles, styles for highligting seqences in the text and also features like spellchecking.
This cuold be something like a html-editor nesst combined with some xml capabitities.
We've found two Java-aplications, wich also exists as beans:
1) EditLive! www.ephox.com
2) edit-on www.realobjects.com

When we placed EditLife! as a bean we got some error-messages which told us, that a standard.xml-File was not found resp. defined etc.
So up to now we had no success with implementing this very interesting bean which costs some bugs.
The second one we're just testing.

We would like to share our experinces with testing them with someone.

Near by: are there any other beans like this?

[agis]

in hope that someone is interested in beans with text processing abilities, we place here the error messages we've got, when trying to implement the bean named EditLive! from www.Ephox.com.

Would be a great thing, to have a real text editor resp. word processor in Servoy for writing for example business correspondence directly in solutions without word or other external programs!

[jcompagner]

it seems that you or servoy does set a variable into the bean that is of the wrong type somehow.

Can you give me some pointers what property of what bean you exactly set? When do you get these errors exactly?

[agis]

First we have copied the bean EditLive! to the folder beans in the Servoy folder.
When placing the bean on form, two Messages are shown:
1.) Error 2: loading of standard.xml failed.
2.) Error 1: Configuration file, text or URL not defined.
The properties of the placed bean are shown but changing the properties is showing the error messages again.
A sreenshot from the properties of the bean is shown in the attachement of this posting.
There is only one javabean for EditLive available:
http://www.ephox.com/product/eljbean/default.asp
Standard.xml is part of the bean.

Perhaps the link to the documentation of the EditLive! implementation will help:
http://www.ephox.com/developers/editliveforjava/v3/bean/default.htm

[jcompagner]

i tested the bean. and that loading error is there problem they first need to fix.
For example if i am running there Test itself. (Slightly modified) then it also doesn't work.

I reported it to them.

[Harjo]

This bean is more an html-editor than a word-processor.
I miss complete the print or print-preview function?

Or I a wrong?

Question to the dev-guys:

Since your are JAVA-gurus, maybe you know this better:
is there any change in front of the rtf bean of SUN? compatability with tables, pictures? etc..?

Or something else that would enhance word-processing in Servoy?

[Harjo]

Can we expect uberhaupt any enhancements in the RTF Area in Servoy?
Please see my reply above.

[jcompagner]

not directly or sun must improve that one, but i don't think they will do that very soon.

So then the only solution is to use a bean or plugin that gives you better RTF support

[hpmxxx]

Does anybody already have some experience with the topic "text-editor/wordprocessor and Servoy" in the meantime? Are there useful Beans available?


Hans-Peter