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Java Text Editor Applet

Author:Brent Simmons
Posted:2/18/1999; 11:26:21 AM
Topic:RPC-based previewing
Msg #:2999 (In response to 2992)
Prev/Next:2998 / 3000

You've seen the screen shot of the Scripting News editor window:

http://www.scripting.com/gifs/controlPanel2.gif

Can anyone create a Java applet that would be a replacement for the browser's built-in text editor? The assumption is that even a vanilla Java editor window is better than the browser's editor.

Here's what the applet has to do:

1) Present a text editing area -- but embedded in the page, not opening up in a new window.

2) Get the text to edit via an XML-RPC call to a server (could be a server other than the one serving the console page, if possible).

3) Provide a submit button that, when clicked, causes the browser to post the text to a specified URL. (This button doesn't have to be part of the applet, as long as when it's clicked the browser submits the edited text to a specified URL, as with a standard form.)

4) Be cross-browser and cross-platform.

In addition, it would be great, but not required, if the applet had a menu bar directly above the edit area. This menubar would be much like Frontier's HTML menu, a menu of HTML editing commands.

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