Custom TV input type for ACE editor

[bertoost]

Should be cool to have a custom ACE input TV option. With this option you've being able to create a "code" TV field for resources. This is useful to developers (using resource-groups to hide that field for clients ;-) hehe).

[adamwintle]

This is a good idea and something I was just looking for. Does anyone know if this happened or if there's a way to do this yet?

[danyaPostfactum]

@adamwintle there is a proposed patch (https://github.com/danyaPostfactum/modx-ace/pull/9). Can you explain please why do you need such kind of tv? You can use a plain textarea tv.

[adamwintle]

For some of my templates I've got a headerExtra and a footerExtra TV (which is hidden from client's like Bert mentioned) so we can add some extra code to a page's header or footer if needed (for a Google Map or a gallery, etc)

It would be very useful if these could use the Ace code editor with the tabbing, code highlighting plus other features. Just using a plain textarea isn't so useful for code editing.

[danyaPostfactum]

Thanks. I'll take into consideration. By the way, if you don't use WYSIWYG (but your clients can always use it), you can create use_editor user setting and set to false and every rte tv will turn into an ace editable area.

[pixelchutes]

:+1:

Did not know about the RTE TV conversion > Ace with use_editor disabled. Is there anyway to make it apply to textarea input TVs, too?

Just thinking about the use case where a Rich Text editor is preferred for formatted, text input only, but then other TVs used for handling extra code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) at the Resource level, where Ace makes perfect sense...syntax highlighting FTW!

[nong-monogon]

Any update on this? Want to use Ace on TV text area

[matdave]

+1... 00,000

[sonicpunk]

crickets It would be great if someone posted a solution to this!

[evd]

You can use plugin https://github.com/danyaPostfactum/modx-ace/pull/9#issuecomment-76466239

[sonicpunk]

Thanks for the Link!