RichTextFX VS github-writer

RichTextFX isn't great -- documentation is generally unhelpful and not much development lately. I've also found bugs in the component and figuring my way around internals is hard for a new-ish Kotlin dev.

RichTextFX is very much Some Assembly Required and there isn't much documentation. I would definitely say it's not easy to use IMHO. I'm currently working on creating a word processing control with it, but it's still very much a work in progress. If you go the route of using RichTextFX, the repo might help you figure some things out.

RichTextFX provides decent syntax highlighting for JavaFX. The project is barely active but works great nevertheless.

RichTextFX issue

This is a tough one. JavaFX doesn't currently have that capability. This would involve a lot of font metrics and line metrics calculations. The API currently does not have public methods for such. Might be added in future versions of javafx.

RichTextFX - This fits the bill. It uses following subcomponents..

VirtualizedFX and TextFlow will be key to creating stylized text editor if you decide to venture that direction. A game changer. RichtextFX is the most popular but uses Flowless as a virtualised container for TextFlow display, hence has many dependencies.

Have you looked at CKEditor?

Problematic dependencies. Some dependencies like CKEditor are designed specifically to work with Webpacker and won't work with other tools.

At my work, we recently released a beta of our switch CKEditor, coming from Draftjs. Works pretty well. They have a free license available, not sure if that would cover your use-case tho.

Every place where the mismanager wanted a rich text editor ended up skinning/modding what is now called CKEditor . It used to be called "FCKEditor" because of the initials of the guy who wrote it, but almost everyone reading it put the letter U in where it didn't belong. Sorry Frederico Caldeira Knabben.

CKEditor

https://ckeditor.com/ :)

CKEditor offers rich text editing, and is a fantastic bit of kit I've used extensively over the past couple of years. It does cost money, but it's worth it.

Recall that in the previous article, when you create a post, you can only add plain text, which is not ideal for a blog article. The rich text editor or WYSIWYG HTML editor allows you to edit HTML pages directly without writing the code. In this tutorial, I am using the CKEditor as an example.

Check CKEditor 5: https://ckeditor.com/