In-place editing of pier pages, anyone?

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do in-place editing on Pier pages (or rather I want to
> use pier wiki markup in user comments in my app). Has anyone done
> something like that before? I am using the seaside 3.0 one-click
> image.
>
> I can do in-place editing with 'normal' text, the problem with pier
> seems to be that the text that you want to edit (pier's wiki source)
> is different from what you have on the displayed page (the HTML
> rendering of the wiki text).
>
> The Scriptaculous documentation mentions this:
>
> http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/ajax-inplaceeditor
> How to edit server side formatted text (formatted with eg. textile)
>
> Format the text on the server when the initial page is rendered. Add a
> new server side action that returns the unformatted text in the
> reponse and specify the load Text URL? option as a URL to this action.
> The control will load the text from the server instead of using the
> text on the page. The action that receives the updated text should
> save it and return the formatted text as an HTML snippet in the
> reponse.
>
> The relevant option in Scriptaculous Ajax.InPlaceEditor is
>
> loadTextURL      V1.5    null    Will cause the text to be loaded from
> the server (useful if your text is actually textile and formatted on
> the server)
>
> Now I see nothing related to this in SUInPlaceEditor.
>
>
> Do you have any hints how this combination of in-place editing and
> wiki markup could be done?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Matthias
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> I think the in-place editor does not help much in this case. What you
> want to do is a normal text area that triggers an AJAX action that
> serializes the textarea and that updates a preview with the freshly
> rendered HTML.
>
> Lukas
>
> On 9 February 2010 01:47, Matthias Berth <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to do in-place editing on Pier pages (or rather I want to
>> use pier wiki markup in user comments in my app). Has anyone done
>> something like that before? I am using the seaside 3.0 one-click
>> image.
>>
>> I can do in-place editing with 'normal' text, the problem with pier
>> seems to be that the text that you want to edit (pier's wiki source)
>> is different from what you have on the displayed page (the HTML
>> rendering of the wiki text).
>>
>> The Scriptaculous documentation mentions this:
>>
>> http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/ajax-inplaceeditor
>> How to edit server side formatted text (formatted with eg. textile)
>>
>> Format the text on the server when the initial page is rendered. Add a
>> new server side action that returns the unformatted text in the
>> reponse and specify the load Text URL? option as a URL to this action.
>> The control will load the text from the server instead of using the
>> text on the page. The action that receives the updated text should
>> save it and return the formatted text as an HTML snippet in the
>> reponse.
>>
>> The relevant option in Scriptaculous Ajax.InPlaceEditor is
>>
>> loadTextURL      V1.5    null    Will cause the text to be loaded from
>> the server (useful if your text is actually textile and formatted on
>> the server)
>>
>> Now I see nothing related to this in SUInPlaceEditor.
>>
>>
>> Do you have any hints how this combination of in-place editing and
>> wiki markup could be done?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Matthias
>> _______________________________________________
>> Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ...
>> https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki
>>
>
>
>
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> Lukas Renggli
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>
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>>> If I understood you correctly you want something along Stackoverflow,
>>> where you see the resulting HTML along when you type.
>>
>> No,  I want the simpler thing: I click on some text and get a text
>> area where I can edit the wiki source. No live preview necessary.
>
> That's far more complicated.
>
> Have a look at PRHaloRenderer in Pier-EditorEnh this is somehow
> similar. This adds a halo around each structure as it is rendered to
> HTML. In your case you would do something similar but render an
> in-place editor around each paragraph.
>
> Some versions of Pier back in 2005 or 2006 had such a functionality.
> You might get some ideas looking at that code, although I don't
> remember if it every worked. Directly editing the document AST becomes
> quite tricky if you go beyond simple paragraphs.
>
> Lukas
>
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> Lukas Renggli
> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
>
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