Cheers,
I want to make a Spec Presenter which can show rendered pillar. I have the necessary code to transform a pillar string document into Text with fonts and stuff.
My problem is how to make the Presenter. To get moving I did not want to make a wysiwyg editor, but a simple two-mode thing. It either shows the rendered text or the pillar source.
When I looked at the Spec components it seems a reasonable approach to make it a subclass of SpTextPresenter, to get all the editing of the source for free.
Now after having made this subclass, PillarTextPreseanter, I realize it would be nice if I could tell the difference between rendering mode and editing mode. I thought it would be simple to use a slightly different background color for the editor in rendering mode.
And here is the problem:
- If I override "initialize" to change the color (self color: MyColor), it has no effect
- If I override the "initializeWidgets" to change the color, it has no effect
Flopping through the implementation of "openWithSpec", I find that I can implement an "announceDisplayed" method, and if I set the color in that method it does indeed keep the color.
I have no idea how I should have found this out (except spending a Thursday morning on it),
I am not sure it is the best solution.
I have no idea why the other two methods do not work.
At times I must admit I am truely baffled by the complexity of it all.
Best,
Kasper
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