Rangy 1.3 alpha released

[Tim Down]

I'm pleased to announce the release of Rangy 1.3 alpha. The major feature is a new TextRange module which provides:

- character and word-based range and selection manipulation, regardless of element boundaries

- flexible text/regex search within visible page text

- character index-based selection/range save and restore which is not vulnerable to formatting changes (unlike Rangy's existing selection save/restore module)

- innerText implementation

I would be very keen to hear any feedback on the new functionality and API.

Tim

[nico burns]

This sounds great Tim! The new save and restore feature may be the thing that finally tips me over the edge to porting my WYSIWYG editor to rangy. I have one suggestion, the word based selection - it might be more natural to have it ignore inline element boundaries, but break at block level ones, perhaps as an option... I probably won't get the chance to use this for a while, but keep up the good work!

Nico

[Tim Down]

Thanks. Block level element boundaries add line breaks into the
visible text, so I think this already works as you hoped.

Tim

[prashant2402]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your work.

Could you let me know if save/restore module still has an issue if different browser is used for restore than the one in which original selection was saved?

Prash

[Jay Smith]

Yay! Tim, you've crafted something out of rock here, excellent job.

[Jay Smith]

Nico, Tim

any idea how to get the caret position, or the word preceding the carets position to be more percise?

I am building a javascript editor and I want to offer intellisense support for objects, showing a popup of properties, methods etc following the dot "."...

I may not be explaining myself correctly, I want to build a simple javascript intellisense editor,

any help?

Jay

[Tim Down]

Hi Prash,

It *should* be OK, I think. More testing needed, but that was part of
the intention of this module: everything is based on a normalized view
of the text on the page. No guarantees at this stage, possibly ever:
CSS and HTML are complicated and it's impossible (or at least
prohibitively difficult) to cover every possibility.

Tim

[Tim Down]

Jay,

If the caret is immediately after a dot, you could do

var sel = rangy.getSelection();
var range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.moveStart("word", -1);
sel.setSingleRange(range);

By the way, if you're writing a code editor, have you looked at
CodeMirror (http://codemirror.net/)? That's a truly excellent piece of
engineering.

Tim

[Rui Min]

Thanks! Will play with this new module. This is very helpful.