[Gambas-user] Replacement for TextEdit or a RichText conversion

[Bruce Steers]

TextEditor is amazing, very fully feature rich :)

I have written my own script editor around it for editing bash and gambas
script files.
It's got lots of those funky features that the gambas IDE has by default :)

But just for plain text editing id just use a TextArea
BruceS


On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 11:48, Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de> wrote:

> Ah, I found it
>
> Editor is deprecated, it is TextEditor now and comes with
> gb.form.editor. Certainly worth looking at.
>
> Just hope I do not have to change too much of my code to keep the
> functionality for my special case.
>
> Regards
> Rolf
>
> Am 17.03.21 um 13:25 schrieb Bruce Steers:
> > Is compositing enabled?
> > Transparency only shows on a desktop who's window manager is using
> > compositing.
> > So either Marco + compositing or Metacity + compositing or Compiz
> > (I find Compiz the best)
> >
> > Also are you using latest gambas?
> > there were some glitches in some qt objects backgrounds showing black
> > that have now been fixed, Ie' just setting a raised border would show a
> > qt object as black (but only in the IDE not when program was run.)
> >
> > If that's the problem then I would suggest using gambas in GTK mode not
> > QT then the objects might look better in the IDE
> > Or upgrading to latest gambas daily build
> >
> > BruceS
> >
> > On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 12:12, Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de
> > <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Thank you Bruce, that did it, at least on my Kubuntu 20 laptop at
> home.
> >     It installed couple more libraries with it, and it runs flawlessly.
> >
> >     On the Ubuntu Mate 18 PC in the office, after installing gb.qt5.ext,
> >     the
> >     Gambas IDE wouldn't start. It said, gb.qt5.webkit was missing, so I
> >     installed that too.
> >
> >     Now it runs, but in the IDE, Panels are shown with a black
> background,
> >     not transparent/gray. Programs are running fine, however, from the
> IDE
> >     and as binaries. And I tried to change the libraries to qt4 and to
> >     gb.gui etc., but the IDE stays ugly.
> >
> >     In another program in the office, I used the Editor, and it seems it
> >     isn't included in gb.qt5.ext. So I switched back to qt4 and qt4.ext
> >     because it is essential in that project. Is it somewhere else now?
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Rolf
> >
> >
> >     Am 16.03.21 um 20:04 schrieb Bruce Steers:
> >      > # sudo apt-get install gambas3-gb-qt5-ext
> >      >
> >      >
> >      > On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 17:32, Rolf-Werner Eilert
> >     <rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
> >      > <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     Am 16.03.21 um 16:25 schrieb Gianluigi:
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      > Il giorno mar 16 mar 2021 alle ore 16:20 Rolf-Werner Eilert
> >      >      > <rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
> >     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>
> >      >     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>
> >     <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de <mailto:rwe-sse at osnanet.de>>>> ha
> scritto:
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     When I do not have gb.qt4.ext, there is no TextEdit
> >     control
> >      >     anymore,
> >      >      >     showing and producing RichText strings.
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     I can use TextArea instead (in my case), but if I want
> to
> >      >     show the pure
> >      >      >     text contents of existing strings, is there a
> >     conversion function
> >      >      >     somewhere?
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     Or was TextEdit replaced by a new version I don't know
> of?
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     Thanks for any advice!
> >      >      >
> >      >      >     Rolf
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
> >      >      > gb.qt5.ext cobntains TextEdit
> >      >      >
> >      >      > Regards
> >      >      > Gianluigi
> >      >      >
> >      >      >
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> >      >
> >      >     Oh of course - that would be the easiest way.
> >      >
> >      >     How do I obtain it - what is the package name? I installed
> >     Gambas from
> >      >     the team repo on both Ubuntus I have in use (18 and 20), but
> >     it hasn't
> >      >     been installed automagically.
> >      >
> >      >     Regards
> >      >     Rolf
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