Using ACE with WT

Question

UPDATE 3 Final working code below. YOU NEED THE ace.js FROM THE src FOLDER! It will not work from the libs, you need the pre-packaged version from their sit

Answer 1

Maybe this puts you in the right direction:

wApp->require("lib/ace/ace.js")
// A WContainerWidget is rendered as a div
WContainerWidget *editor = new WContainerWidget(parent);
// editor->jsRef() is a text string that will be the element when executed in JS
editor->doJavaScript(
    editor->jsRef() + ".editor = ace.edit(" + editor->jsRef() + ");" +
    editor->jsRef() + ".editor.setTheme('ace/theme/monokai');" +
    editor->jsRef() + ".editor.getSession().setMode('ace/mode/javascript');"
  );

That should decorate the editor. Wt does not automatically send the modifications to a div to the server, so you do this manually through a JSignal (emits a signal from JS to C++):

JSignal <std::string> *jsignal = new JSignal<std::string>(editor, "textChanged");
jsignal->connect(this, MyClass::textChanged);

WPushButton *b = new WPushButton("Save", parent);
b->clicked().connect("function(object, event) {" +
    jsignal->createCall(editor->jsRef() + ".editor.getValue()") +
  ";}");

(code above is not tested so you may need to adjust a bit)

I have integrated CodeMirror in an earlier JWt (java) project like this:

import eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WApplication;
import eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WContainerWidget;
import eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WTextArea;

public class CodeMirrorTextArea extends WContainerWidget {
        private WTextArea textArea;
        public CodeMirrorTextArea(WContainerWidget parent) {
                super(parent);

                textArea = new WTextArea(this);

                WApplication app = WApplication.getInstance();

                app.require(app.resolveRelativeUrl("codemirror-2.32/lib/codemirror.js"));
                app.require(app.resolveRelativeUrl("codemirror-2.32/mode/groovy/groovy.js"));

                //TODO:
                //We save the editor state to the text area on each key stroke,
                //it appears to be not a performance issue,
                //however it might very well become one when editing larger fragments of code.
                //A better solution would be to save this state to the text area only when
                //the form is submitted, currently this is not yet possible in Wt???.

                String js =
                        "var e = " + textArea.getJsRef() + ";" +
                        "var cm = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(e, {" +
                        "       onKeyEvent : function (editor, event) {" +
                    "           editor.save();" +
                    "   }," +
                        "       lineNumbers: true" +
                        "       });" +
                        "var self = " + getJsRef() + ";" +
                        "self.cm = cm;";

                this.doJavaScript(js);
        }

        public CodeMirrorTextArea() {
                this(null);
        }

        public void setText(String text) {
                textArea.setText(text);
        }

        public String getText() {
                return textArea.getText();
        }

        public void setMarker(int line, String htmlMarker) {
                String js =
                        "var self = " + getJsRef() + ";" +
                        "self.cm.setMarker(" + line + ", " + jsStringLiteral(htmlMarker +
"%N%") + ");";

                this.doJavaScript(js);
        }

        public void clearMarker(int line) {
                String js =
                        "var self = " + getJsRef() + ";" +
                        "self.cm.clearMarker(" + line + ");";

                this.doJavaScript(js);
        }
}