[TYPO3-hci] Typoscript "Code-Editor"

[Mark Stephenson]

Bernhard,

         The editor you created looks like a great start. It seems like the 
progression of typoscript editing capabilities might go like this:

1. Basic language-sensitive editor like you show here that colors-codes the 
text and catches the syntax errors common to all typoscript. This would be 
very beneficial right now.

2. Language-sensitive editor that reads typescript script specifications 
from the core and from installed extensions. The editor dynamically 
evaluates the full syntax and highlights the text accordingly. It shows 
every syntax error. As Kasper (and perhaps others) suggest, this requires a 
mechanism to define the typoscript syntax within the core and within each 
extension.

3. A system configuration tool that eliminates the need to enter or even 
see the actual typoscript (although you could always toggle to #2 if you 
prefer). This tool would write 100% correct typoscript and administrators 
would be provided with a series of dynamically-created menus and forms and 
wizards that give access to all the functionality of typoscript.

In our experience working with many administrators of TYPO3, the biggest 
challenge is configuring their website via typoscript. So having #3 would 
be of great value. By the way, this editor should also take over the 
constant editor functions.

Mark
Web-Empowered Church


At 01:21 AM 7/13/2006, Bernhard Kraft wrote:
>Fabian Polkehn wrote:
>
> > So my suggestions are: A "rich-text-code-editor" (AJAX?) for Typoscript 
> that
> > offers some basal syntax-checking (how many opening-brackets are there? 
> How
> > many closing brackets? and so on...) and / or maybe syntax-highlighting 
> and
> > code-suggestions for the various objects.
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
>
>To show that it works with rtehtmlarea I created a little demo of such an 
>editor.
>No flash required :)
>
>A screenshot of the Setup-Field after installation of the Extension can be 
>viewed
>here:
>
>http://think-open.org/kraftb/index/TSEdit.png
>
>And the extension itself can get downloaded from here:
>
>http://think-open.org/kraftb/index/T3X_kb_tsedit_htmlarea-0_0_0.t3x
>
>
>Try it and give me your feedback via private mail (to not spoil this list 
>here - except it's also
>meant for here :)
>
>It is not a "on-the-fly" editor currently - as for this I have to less 
>knowledge of rteHTMLarea -
>but with stanislas help I'm sure we two together could easily build a full 
>fledged editor with on
>the fly syntax checking (possibly using AJAX)
>
>
>
>greets,
>Bernhard
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