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andy-goryachev / FxEditor

JavaFX rich text editor able to handle billions of lines (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Apache License 2.0
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Question: multiple interactive/editable views into the same content #4

Closed oakad closed 6 years ago

oakad commented 6 years ago

Hi.

I wonder, have you looked into a problem of having multiple views (panes or windows) looking into the same editable content, in such a way, that edits happening in one pane are reflected in the all other views (such a feature is present in all decent editors, after all).

Recently, I had to look into a similar problem yet I could not identify an efficient way to update multiple scene graphs with the same content.

Do you plan to support such a feature in your FxEditor component (I checked the feature spreadsheet, but could not see if it's there)?

andy-goryachev commented 6 years ago

In theory, this should be a function of the model. Editing does not work yet: still need to implement at least the basic plain text editable model. Once this is done, it will be relatively easy to add multi-view capability to the model.

Thank you for your suggestion though. I'll add this to the feature list.

Just curious, are you using it in a product?

oakad commented 6 years ago

Not yet. I'm still going through technology evaluation phase.

I'd love to go with pure Java(fx) solution, but many things "just work" in Qt (minus whatever amount of JNI mess).

andy-goryachev commented 6 years ago

I see. This project is nowhere near production quality. I might suggest to look at https://github.com/FXMisc/RichTextFX or indeed any other possible alternative since I, regretfully, have very little time to spend on this project at the present time.