Anyone built or know of any module like this but for vision? Been requested to add a rich text editor for a vision one-note clone type application.
I'm not aware of any existing modules, but I'm pretty sure there are a couple of rich text Swing editors out there. Possibly not FOSS, though - you might have to shell out for a license and embed in your own custom module.
If you can teach folks Markdown syntax, it would be relatively easy to have a basic text area on one side, a module to render it to HTML, and an editor pane on the other side to display it.
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This definitely involves making a module right? Unless I wanted to try to hack together a template but there's already some prebuilt solutions in java.
Seems like there is a way to use OpenOffice though I don't know what text I could get out of that - I have to save and be able to reopen this in the same component later through database query.
This one looks most promising to me - Java Answers Forum - WYSIWYG Html Editor with JEditorPane and HTMLEditorKit
I ran the code in this forum post, it looks nice, saves as plain html. I would have to rework how it looks, definitely want something more like
than how it uses dropdown menus for any styling but it's pretty much there.
Now I have an actual project to learn how to do a module instead of just curiosity. Think this is my best bet unless anyone knows of anything else.
Dream a little dream..
Asked for this 4 years ago 
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Basically want to use a module for this, if only for performance.
I can think of a couple of very hacky ways to do something like this without a module but pretty sure the performance would be trash.
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Yea I thought of a way to do with a template but I hesitate to do it. We're going to ask the customer if they would pay for a weeks worth of my time to try to make this a module. I hope they say yes, they are trying to sell this Vision application I am building for them as better than one note and right now a rich text editor is a big strike against it. If I get the go ahead (fingers crossed I do) I will share my resulting module with the community.
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Make sure they let you....
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Good point. Cross that bridge if they're willing to pay me to get to it.
This project has been approved and I am working on it, my first real foray into module development. Doing some research in pure swing solutions to this I have found the above link - Java Answers Forum - WYSIWYG Html Editor with JEditorPane and HTMLEditorKit with a pure java swing solution. It seems like the HTMLDocument https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?javax/swing/text/html/HTMLDocument.html might be the right way forward. My question here is does this seem like the right path forward, or are there other more clear obvious ways to make a WYSIWYG editor in vision?