Reminder: you promised this to me for WOWODC! Otherwise, I am going
to have to recommend using WebObjects Builder to reformat as
"WOComponent Editor just can't handle it." :-P
Chuck
On May 30, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> Tidy barfs on webobject tags, because they're not real tags -- it
> chokes the code that checks to make sure the tag you are using is
> allowed inside of the parent (like <table> can contain <tr>, etc).
> The original HTML version of the HTML editor used Tidy for error
> checking, but I had to remove it because patching tidy to support
> arbitrary tags like WO (which can appear anywhere) was a HUGE
> pain. So I don't think JTidy is going to hook you up any time soon.
>
> This is pretty much the #1 requested feature at this point, though,
> so I'll step it up in priority.
>
> ms
>
> On May 30, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
>
>> Hi Lachlan,
>>
>> I also use TextMate, but I can't get the HTML Tidy command to work
>> at all if there are any WO tags in the HTML. Do you know if
>> there's a new HTML Tidy plug-in that fixes this? Whenever I try,
>> all my HTML disappears in the TextMate window. BBEdit is too
>> expensive.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ____________________________________________________________________
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>> On May 29, 2007, at 9:45 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>>
>>> On 30/05/2007, at 1:20 PM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>>>
>>>> FWIW, as I work on projects that have components created long
>>>> ago in WOBuilder, every time I need to edit a component that is
>>>> not formatted legibly (for example long horizontal lines), I
>>>> have found that using BBEdit to format it (takes about 20
>>>> seconds) is worth the trouble. I basically have a BbEdit window
>>>> always open with the HTML file type selected at bottom of the
>>>> window. http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/demo.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Then in Eclipse I do a Cmd-A to select all the component HTML,
>>>> paste into the BbEdit window, Cmd-A again to select all of what
>>>> I just pasted in BBEdit, then select Markup/Utilities/Format
>>>> menu, then Cmd-X to cut, then switch back to Eclipse (Cmd-tab),
>>>> then paste Cmd-V. Now I have a nice hierarchially formatted html
>>>> that is easier to work with.
>>>
>>> You might prefer doing this:
>>> a) Preferences > General > File Associations > *.html
>>> b) click Add... (Associated Editors)
>>> c) click external programs, Browse... (I've chosen /usr/local/bin/
>>> mate for TextMate)
>>> d) click Default (optional)
>>> e) if not default, right-click on file and select Open With >
>>> 'editorOfChoice'.
>>> g) if you save the file in the external program eclipse knows.
>>>
>>> That should save you a lot of copying/pasting.
>>>
>>>> Hopefully someday, we will have a format command in WOLips that
>>>> will perform a similar style formatting.
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>>
>>>> On May 29, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> is there anything available that would toggle soft-wrapping the
>>>>> html in the component editor?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently I get no wrapping at all which is often fine but
>>>>> there are times when I'd like to use a softwrap to save the
>>>>> horizontal scrolling.
>>>
>>> with regards,
>>> --
>>>
>>> Lachlan Deck
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
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