<![CDATA[tedit development and design discussion]]>Hi, I recently took over developing tedit app. I would like to try the forum, to gather some ideas and feedback regarding ongoing development.

In this thread, I will post questions regarding future design and functionality and let you, the users, comment and ask things. Lets see how this goes. We can always split it up or move discussions elsewhere.

I would still prefer to have issues and feature requests added in the gitlab repository, but I understand, that not everyone is familiar with gitlab and also that some things are easier to discuss here.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/9725/tedit-development-and-design-discussionRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 05:13:22 GMTWed, 10 Jan 2024 21:42:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:39:59 GMT]]>@danfro said in tedit development and design discussion:

No, the link would only be clickable if you would wrap it in proper html tags. See here: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

Ok, i tested and it works as you say.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87270https://forums.ubports.com/post/87270Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:39:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:12:27 GMT]]>@ikoz ah, background color. That could be too. With flickable I think, I couldn't get flicking flickable and scrolling in the TextArea get working since both use the touch events. Yeah, not that easy. Its not that I didn't try. 😁

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87265https://forums.ubports.com/post/87265Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:12:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:11:08 GMT]]>@domubpkm This is more for the "human eye". The file will be simple text regardless of the extension. But I think this is safer also when sharing to other apps since they can use the extension.

But I agree, I should simply add the extension without bothering the user with this checkbox.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87264https://forums.ubports.com/post/87264Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:11:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:05:22 GMT]]>@danfro I think I found the problem you faced. I put a checkbox in the button row to toggle read-only mode, and when read-only mode is enabled, the TextArea isn't transparent so it is always white regardless of the selected theme (dark/ambiance). This may be a Lomiri Toolkit bug, inherited from the QuickControls' TextArea as that never changes the background color.

As an alternative, Text inside a Flickable can also work, but it doesn't allow selecting text, so you can leave it as-is.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87263https://forums.ubports.com/post/87263Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:05:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:27:54 GMT]]>@danfro said in tedit development and design discussion:

tedit uses .txt for all files stored. That should have been there all the time. Is there some different behaviour now than before?

No it is indeed the same behaviour than for the OpenStore click.
In this case, is the first option of the screenshot always apropriate ? (add .txt)

screenshot20250805_110145591.png

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87262https://forums.ubports.com/post/87262Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:27:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:05:49 GMT]]>@ikoz Have you tried it with a large text in a TextArea? Its too long ago to remember details, but I tried that and decided this won't be a good solution. I think scrolling or so was not possible or some other restriction. Some users do have multi page text, so that would need to be handled.

Its not that I am against it. If we can make that usable I won't mind. Maybe I did something wrong when trying.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87261https://forums.ubports.com/post/87261Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:05:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:55:30 GMT]]>@danfro What about the readOnly property of the existing TextArea? I tried it and it doesn't seem to have any limitation.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87260https://forums.ubports.com/post/87260Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:55:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:12:21 GMT]]>@ikoz Because text doesn't allow scrolling and pan, webview does. The whole handling of long documents is not easy and would need to be added manually. So a webview is an easy out-of-the-box solution. Not perfect, sure.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87258https://forums.ubports.com/post/87258Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:12:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:05:50 GMT]]>@danfro Why are you using a WebView instead of the normal Text type? If the user uses html shouldn't they open it in the browser instead?
It's much simpler (and faster) to use a Text type.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87255https://forums.ubports.com/post/87255Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:05:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:06:28 GMT]]>@domubpkm tedit uses .txt for all files stored. That should have been there all the time. Is there some different behaviour now than before? 🤔

No, the link would only be clickable if you would wrap it in proper html tags. See here: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

I will try to see if I can improve the copy option, but that is our morph/webview implementation. Should be the same in your browser.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87254https://forums.ubports.com/post/87254Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:06:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:39:24 GMT]]>@danfro I have to test better but the read only mode works now ! Thanks 👍 Not very easy to select and copy a piece of text, so as to paste, but it seems to work too ! Thanks.

Edit :
I noticed too in this version :

  • Seems to put the extension .txt even if we don't want to when we record a file ;
  • The links https:// isn't clickable in read only mode. Should be clickable ?
]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87252https://forums.ubports.com/post/87252Tue, 05 Aug 2025 06:39:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:33:59 GMT]]>@domubpkm Please try this build. https://gitlab.com/Danfro/tedit/-/jobs/10912582472/artifacts/raw/build/aarch64-linux-gnu/app/tedit.danfro_3.5.1.1_arm64.click

I did increase the version number. This might be needed for the device to pick up the apparmor change. I had to add "webview" permission there.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87251https://forums.ubports.com/post/87251Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:33:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:07:46 GMT]]>@danfro Hello and thank you for your new attempt.
I have just tested and at this point, the reading mode only make the app crashes at the opening of a file on the Volla 22 last RC Focal. Reading/writing mode works normally : the app doesn't crash at the opening of a file.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87249https://forums.ubports.com/post/87249Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:07:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:35:08 GMT]]>@domubpkm I finally found my mistake and managed to implement a read-only mode using a webview. Can you (and anyone else of course) please test this new build: link (use link below)

It might not be the most fancy way of doing it, but it seems to work. Since the text is shown in html, if you do use common html tags like <b>bold text</b> they should be displayed. Yes, that means if you do bother copying links with the full html link tag, they should be clickable as well.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/87244https://forums.ubports.com/post/87244Tue, 05 Aug 2025 04:35:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:31:54 GMT]]>@domubpkm I am sorry, I forgot to reply. Sadly so far I haven't found a working solution.

When setting the TextArea to read-only, we can't navigate in it. So no option. I didn't found time yet to see if some manually added controls allow moving the text in read-only mode.

I also tried (after your question, could you please open an issue/feature request so I don't forget about that?) to display the file in a webview. I used that successfully when testing something for weather app and webviews allow pinching and dragging and that.
But for some reason simply instantiating a webview component in the code, not even displaying a file, always crashes tedit (of course no error message that might give a direction where to look at). I am totally lost here why that happens. Many apps use webviews for various purposes.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84687https://forums.ubports.com/post/84687Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:31:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:44:30 GMT]]>@danfro Hello. Did you make some progress to find a solution for a 'reading mode only' ?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84629https://forums.ubports.com/post/84629Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:44:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:45:17 GMT]]>@danfro Thank you, with this version Tedit works very well. 👍

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84490https://forums.ubports.com/post/84490Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:45:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:22:40 GMT]]>@domubpkm thanks for mentioning this. I mainly use dark theme, so I missed that in abiance. I will try to fix that soon.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84488https://forums.ubports.com/post/84488Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:22:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:49:37 GMT]]>@danfro hello. The arrow button to toggle toolbar on and off seems to be not very visible. Maybe improve contrast in a next update, if possible.
screenshot20250130_142943428.png

And just to point out that you are doing a great job improving Tedit. Thanks again !

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84486https://forums.ubports.com/post/84486Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:49:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:59:46 GMT]]>I just released v3.5.0 of tedit, should appear in OpenStore soon.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84481https://forums.ubports.com/post/84481Thu, 30 Jan 2025 04:59:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:52:25 GMT]]>@domubpkm On my OP5T, I had tedit open and any other app. When I was doing the short swipe on the right edge to quick-switch between the two apps, tedit would always crash. But this seems to be fixed now.

In the end it doesn't matter too much if you had it before or not. Important is, that it doesn't happen anymore now.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84478https://forums.ubports.com/post/84478Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:52:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:50:00 GMT]]>@danfro not the problems discribed by @Josele13 for me with your last build. But before the last build, i don't know if the problem was there on the volla 22.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84477https://forums.ubports.com/post/84477Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:50:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:42:50 GMT]]>@Josele13 Yes, I had this too, so I know what you describe. This as well might be fixed now.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84476https://forums.ubports.com/post/84476Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:42:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to tedit development and design discussion on Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:41:41 GMT]]>@Josele13 Sadly that is know to crash. The version you can download from the link above contains a possible fix for the crashes. I am not 100% sure though, I could be only lucky, but I had no crash since using that.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/84475https://forums.ubports.com/post/84475Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:41:41 GMT