NE.Standard.UI.CodeInput 1.0.0-rc.2

NE.Standard.UI.CodeInput

A code editor component for the NE.Standard UI framework: a monospaced field with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and find and replace that runs in the browser. Two packages, on the framework's own pattern — the component, which is platform-independent, and its web rendering, which carries the highlighting engine and the stylesheet embedded in its assembly.

Install

dotnet add package NE.Standard.UI.CodeInput --prerelease
dotnet add package NE.Standard.UI.Web.CodeInput --prerelease

Register the web rendering beside the framework's renderers:

services.AddStandardRenderers();
services.AddCodeInput();

Using it

new CodeInputComponent()
    .SetTitle("appsettings.json")
    .SetLanguage(UICodeLanguages.Json)
    .SetRows(20)
    .BindValue(nameof(SettingsController.Json))

Value, IsReadOnly, Placeholder, Appearance, the header's title, icon and badge, validation and borders come from the framework's field, exactly as a text area's do — except that the editor starts as Ghost — nothing drawn around it, on focus as at rest — and never lifts under the pointer: it is read, not filled in.

Editing is the browser's own <textarea> — undo, selection, input methods and the clipboard all behave as they do everywhere else — with the highlighted text drawn underneath it. Tab inserts spaces at the caret, or indents every selected line, and Shift+Tab takes the indent back; Enter keeps the line's indentation, Escape closes the panel. Ctrl+S commits the value at once, ahead of any debounce, and raises the field's save event — .OnSave(nameof(Controller.Save)) is where an application writes it out.

Under the text runs a status bar, as an editor's: the caret's line and column, and pickers for the tab size, the encoding, the line ending and the language. A picker's choice is the property's value — bind TabSize, Encoding, LineEnding and Language two-way to read them. The line ending is the one thing the browser cannot keep for itself (a text field holds every break as LF), so the field notes the ending the value came with, shows it, and sends the value back with it; a choice converts the text on the next commit. SetStatusBar(false) hides the bar.

The encoding is a word, not bytes: the field holds text, and what Encoding means is decided where the file is written. Encoding.GetEncoding knows utf-8 and the two UTF-16 ids; windows-1251, windows-1252 and iso-8859-1 need CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance registered first, and utf-8-bom is UTF-8 written with a preamble.

Find and replace

Ctrl+F opens the panel over the field, Ctrl+H opens it on the replace row. Enter and Shift+Enter step through the matches; the three toggles are match case, whole word and regular expression. A read-only field hides the replace row. The panel's words translate through the application's localization source under the ui.code.* keys, exactly as the framework's own do.

Licence

The framework's: the Prosperity Public License 3.0.0 — free for noncommercial use, with a thirty-day trial for commercial use. See LICENSE.md.