Re: [orion-dev] embeddededitor vs minimaleditor

[John J Barton <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Susan Franklin McCourt wrote:
> Hi, John. The only doc is currently in the original bug reports. 
> Opened a bug to improve that. [1]
>
> Minimal editor is intended to show bare minimum. No plug-in registry, 
> plugins, commands, services, etc. Also no assumptions regarding js, 
> css, html, no content assist or syntax highlighting, etc.
> This gives you the bare editor widget + common keybindings, example of 
> showing problems in the annotation bar, etc.
>
> Embedded editor adds the most common features one would expect if 
> editing js/css/html, including content assist and syntax highlighting. 
> It is still independent of the Orion service model (so, for example, 
> editor plug-ins would not work). The features were chosen based on 
> discussion in this bug [2]. I was assuming you would use 
> embeddededitor.html and then tell me what is missing...
Thanks! 

However I am not able to get the editorContainer from the 
embeddededitor. I can get the div with id 'editorContainer', but I can't 
figure out how to get the object.

Note that I am 100% client side, I don't have access to change the 
server (well of course I do at dev time, but not in deploy). I can 
inject code into the web page, but the example/embedded.js is already 
there.  So the file embedded.html needs to be the embedded editor, not 
the example code for it.

I guess I was imagining that instead of :

   // if there is a mechanism to change which file is being viewed, 
this code would be run each time it changed.
   var contentName = "sample.js";  // for example, a file name, 
something the user recognizes as the content.
   var initialContent = "window.alert('this is some javascript example 
XXXXXXXXXX code');  // try pasting in some real code";
   editorContainer.onInputChange(contentName, null, initialContent);
   syntaxHighlighter.highlight(contentName, 
editorContainer.getEditorWidget());
   // end of code to run when content changes.

there would be some kind of service registration call that would take 
editorContainer and syntaxHighlighter. Then I could get these things 
from the registry and control the embedded editor.

I'll try to figure out how to do this.

jjb