Custom Flex TextArea with html code completion - apache-flex

I made a text/html editor app but I want to add code hinting. Right now I'm using a basic Spark textures. What steps are involved in implementing code hinting/completion?

I think this project help you.
Moonshine 0.8 Beta 2 just out now with basic auto-completion. Parses SWCs and source files.

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Display CHM file in JavaFX app

Is there a way to display Compiled Help manual CHM in a javaFX app, without using java.awt.Desktop from AWT ?
Calling A CHM reader using Runtime.getRuntime().exec(help.chm) is an option, but to make it cross platform, this would require every user in mac, win and linux to have a CHM reader installed.
What's the best option for a cross platform solution ? should I extract it to HTML and display it in javafx.scene.web.WebView ?
Given your wish to be platform independent, I'd advise to go to the HTML route as you yourself suggested. I don't know your reason for converting CHM to HTML if you also control the source, in that case I'd either use HTML directly or markdown to HTML.
You should try this. It's works for me!

Meteor aptana and templates

Im using aptana to code with meteor on windows (it has nice ota SSH/FTP editing which is why I use it). But the <template> tags are a meteor feature so it spits out warnings when using them.
Is there a nicer editor for windows to handle my files with SSH/FTP? Or even better a way to to add <template> to aptana?
The warning is specifically:
Because templates encapsulate all the html, everything gets underlined!
If you go to Window > Preferences > Aptana Studio > Validation you can go through the various validators (HTML Syntax Validator and HTML Tidy Validator are probably the relevant ones for you).
Under HTML Tidy, you can clickdown 'Elements' and change 'Unrecognized elements' from 'Warning' to 'Info' or 'Ignore'.
In the HTML Syntax Validator you can add regular expressions for errors to be ignored like in this question.
Sublime Text 2 is a nice editor for Javascript code.
Although it doesn't come with FTP support by default, but you can configure it using instructions given here.
Hope it helps.

Removing the byte order mark on asp.net page

I'm really stuck. I'm working on an integration project where I'm creating a html fragment using ASP.NET. This fragment will be included as part of another site. The html fragment is created using a simple ASP.NET page with a minimal code behind file.
Te site that will include this html fragment is running PHP. The developer there is complaining that my code is sending the byte order mark as part of the html fragment and this is making his life difficult.
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 for development. I've saved the relevant aspx and aspx.cs files as UTF-8 without signature. However, this doesn't seem to have made a difference and now I'm pretty much out of ideas. The rest of the site is set to use UTF-8 as standard (defined in web.config).
Where should I be looking to alter the BOM behaviour for my aspx file?
If you save the file in Visual Studio I believe it will keep adding the BOM. You need to use a different editor to remove the marker such as NotePad++.
Actually in the advanced save as dialog in Visual Studio there is also an option to save UTF-8 without signature. Have you tried this?
It's confirmed in this question.
You can also use plain old NotePad to save with a different encoding.
Save As...Encoding DropDown.

QTestLib: Undocumented command line argument -chart

In Qt 4.6 QTestLib supports the command-line argument "-chart" (but this is undocumented).
A report.html is created, however neither Firefox 3.6 nor IE8 are able to display anything but the headline "Test". When I look into the html-file it has some JavaScript stuff and test results, so there should be something to display.
As -chart is undocumented, I'm not sure I use it the correct way.
Any hints?
Thanks.
Try using it in combination with the -xml option. I suspect the Javascript reads in an XML file to generate the chart, not sure though.
Also, it might have something to do with this Qt labs blog post: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/12/05/qtestlib-now-with-nice-graphs-pointing-upwards
How about looking into the produced HTML file with a text editor?
Other than that, reading the source code of QTest might help.
I assume it's some semi complete experimental feature.

JQuery's $ is in conflict with that of StringTemplate.Net in ASP.Net MVC

I am exploring ASP.NET MVC and I wanted to add jQuery to make the site interactive. I used StringTemplate, ported to .Net, as my template engine to generate html and to send JSON. However, when I view the page, I could not see it. After debugging, I've realized that the $ is used by the StringTemplate to access property, etc and jQuery uses it too to manipulate the DOM. Gee, I've looked on other template engines and most of them uses the dollar sign :(.
Any alternative template engine for ASP.Net MVC? I wanted to retain jQuery because MSFT announced that it will used in the Visual Studio (2008?)
Thanks in Advance :)
Update
Please go to the answer in ASP.NET MVC View Engine Comparison question for a comprehensive list of Template engine for ASP.NET MVC, and their pros and cons
Update 2
At the end I'll just put the JavaScript code, including JQuery, in a separate script file, hence I wouldn't worry about the $ mingling in the template file.
Update 3
Changed the Title to reflect what I need to resolve. After all "The Best X in Y" is very subjective question.
You can of course move your js logic into a .js file. But if you want it inline with your StringTemplate views, you can escape it using the \$ construct.
In addition, you can simply use the jQuery("selector"), instead of $("selector") construct if you want to avoid the escaping syntax.
Here's a good article on using StringTemplate as a View Engine in MVC.
There's also an accompanying OpenSource engine, along with some samples.
Also, as mentioned above, you can modify your Type Lexer. (make it an alternate character to the $).
I would highly recommend Spark. I've been using it for awhile now with jQuery and haven't ran into a single issue so far.
JQuery can be disambiguated by using the jQuery keyword like this:
jQuery(
instead of this:
$(
I would consider this a best practice. It eliminates any possibility of clashing with another library, and makes the code more readable.
Perhaps jQuery.noConflict will work for you
Have a look at the mvccontrib project. They have 4 different view engines at the moment which are brail, nhaml, nvelocity and xslt.
http://www.codeplex.com/MVCContrib
In case you want to stick with StringTemplate (ST) see this article from the ST wiki. You may also change the behaviour totally by editing Antlr.StringTemplate.Language\DefaultTemplateLexer.cs and replacing the "$" with what you want.
I really like the syntax in Django, so I recommend NDjango :)
Have you tried $$ or /$ to escape the dollar signs in string template? I'm not sure about ST specifically but thats how most template engines work.
As for other templating engines, I really loved nVelocity when I used it on a project.
JsonFx.NET has a powerful client-side templating engine with familiar ASP.NET style syntax. The entire framework is specifically designed to work well with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC. You can get examples of how to build real world UI from: http://code.google.com/p/jsonfx-examples/
I've been using ANTLR StringTemplate for ASP.NET MVC project. However what I did was to extend the StringTemplate grammar (template.g) to recognize '%' (aspx.template.g) as delimiters. You can find these files if you download the StringTemplate.net version. I generated the corresponding files: AspxTemplateLexer.cs, AspxTemplateParser.cs, AspxTemplateParserTokenTypes.cs and AspxTemplateParserTokenTypes.txt.
In addition I altered StringTemplateLoader.cs to recognize the extensions .aspx and .ascx which Visual Studio recognizes. This way I am not stuck with the .st extension and clients don't know the difference.
Anyway after rebuilding StringTemplate I have the behavior that I want. What I like about StringTemplate is that it does NOT permit ANY code to be embedded in the template. It looks like Spark like the default ASP/MVC template is code permissive which makes the templates less portable.
I would prefer is "<%" and "%>" as delimiters but unfortunately the ANTLR grammar seems somewhat difficult and fragile to alter unless someone else has done it. On the other had StringTemplate has a great support community and a great approach to separation -- which is the point of MVC.
You could try jsRepeater.
You may need this .NET Template Engine. If you wish to use '$' character, simply use '$$'. See the code below:
{%carName = "Audi R8"/}
{%string str = "This is an $carName$"/}
$str$
$$str$$
the output will be
This is an Audi R8
$str$
If I understand StringTemplate version 4 correctly you can define your own escape char in Template (or TemplateGroup) constructor.
Found Mustache to be the most fool-proof, easiest-to-use, lightest full-featured templating engine for .Net projects (Web and backend)
Works well with .Net 3.5 (meaning it does not need dynamic type and .Net 4.0 to work for mixed type models, like Razor).
The part that I like the most is ability to nest arbitrary IDicts within and have the engine do the right thing. This makes the mandatory-for-all engines reboxing step super-simple:
var child = new {
nested = "nested value"
};
var parent = new {
SomeValue = "asdfadsf"
, down = child
, number = 123
};
var template = #"This is {{#down}}{{nested}}{{/down}}. Yeah to the power of {{number}}";
string output = Nustache.Core.Render.StringToString(template,parent);
// output:
// "This is nested value. Yeah to the power of 123"
What's most beautiful about Mustache is that same exact template works exactly same in pure JavaScript or any other of 20 or so supported languages.

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