Programmatically transforming textareas

Ramon

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May 4, 2011, 9:24:34 AM5/4/11

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Hey, I see that the new version of Ace allows replacement/transformation of textareas. Great - that's less work to change textareas in forms to ace editors. However, how do you do it programmatically?

I tried ace.transformTextarea(...) but I get a transformTextarea is not a function.

Brion Vibber

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May 4, 2011, 2:16:04 PM5/4/11

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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Ramon <ramon...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, I see that the new version of Ace allows replacement/transformation of textareas. Great - that's less work to change textareas in forms to ace editors. However, how do you do it programmatically?

I tried ace.transformTextarea(...) but I get a transformTextarea is not a function.

The textarea replacement function doesn't seem to be in the main build; you need to load from the build/textarea/src tree insted of build/src. I had some trouble with that interface as it seems to be deliberately fiddling with the namespacing to keep the Ace code out of the way of whatever's on the page (it's meant for use as a bookmarklet...?).

For my MediaWiki gadget embedding Ace for editing JS and CSS subpages, I ended up doing the textarea replacement myself: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CodeEditor.js

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Ramon Tayag

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May 4, 2011, 10:57:16 PM5/4/11

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I see. Thanks Brion!

Ramon Tayag

Fabian Jakobs

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May 6, 2011, 4:42:58 AM5/6/11

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I would like to pull this functionality directly into Ace. Could you
open a github issue to remind me doing it?

Best, Fabian

On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Ramon Tayag <ra...@tayag.net> wrote:
> I see. Thanks Brion!Ramon Tayag

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Brion Vibber

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May 6, 2011, 1:03:49 PM5/6/11

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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Fabian Jakobs <fabian...@web.de> wrote:

I would like to pull this functionality directly into Ace. Could you
open a github issue to remind me doing it?

I've stuck one in here: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues/239

Julian Viereck

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May 9, 2011, 11:18:42 AM5/9/11

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See my answer in the issue: https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues/239#issuecomment-1123327

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