TextArea does not export TextEdit's textDocument property

[Michael Zanetti]

This would be needed for advanced RTF formatting like this: http://i.imgur.com/dejnDU7.png

Right now, falling back to plain TextEdit is required.

This is a feature to improve the UX of the Reminders core app, so that it can use the Ubuntu text selection and cursor to be better integrated.

In terms of reusing the code that the Reminders app provides to have a full QML API, while technically possible, would require a non-trivial amount of work to make it generic enough for use for other apps. The features of the Reminders text editor are tightly coupled with the Evernote API.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I'm not comfortable aliasing this as-is because it's not QML API (see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qquicktextdocument.html) but merely an object that you need to hand over to C++.

We should rather have a QML API for text formatting. Whatever produced the screenshot can probably make a basis for that?

[Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)]

What's the problem with having a property that needs to be handed over to Qt? If you don't want to do that, noone forces you to use the property. But if someone actually wants to do so I don't think we should forbid that.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

For the record my concern is with the suspicion that an API that's not fully exported to QML may not live up to the standards and apply changes without emitting the signals we rely on.

I'll provide a branch to expose it, and let's aim to unit test it later based on the use cases in Reminders (not to say it'll be the guinea big here, being the only user of this API for now).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-ui-toolkit - 1.3.1517+15.10.20150523-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-ui-toolkit (1.3.1517+15.10.20150523-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Christian Dywan ]
  * Expose textDocument of TextField. Fixes LP: #1392276
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  [ Leo Arias ]
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  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * uitk_test_plan.sh: Switch to vivid-overlay & wily instead of rtm-14.09 &
    vivid. Fixes LP: #1457015.

 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Sat, 23 May 2015 17:24:43 +0000

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:reminders-app at revision 476, scheduled for release in reminders-app, milestone 2014-11-27