Inplace controls, inplace textarea editing

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

I just now posted an article about the inplace edit controls which are new with RichFaces 3.2.  I showed the in-placed edit controls built in to RichFaces, and I also put together my own variation, for use with Seam text in a textarea.  I provide the source code and a detailed explanation of how it all works.  If JBoss wants to incorporate something like this in an upcoming release, perhaps as a Seam JSF tag, that would be great.  Let me know if you have any comments on this.

[pmuir]

The input area control looks interesting - perhaps you should suggest it as a control for the RF library. And make sure that you can easily enable s:formattedText?

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

Thank you!  The one that I created does use s:formattedText.  And yes, I would love to have this incorporated into RF.  I've already created one tag for Seam: the s:swing tag so I would like to do another.

To get this into RF, it would need to have no actual Seam dependencies, so it would need to support s:validateFormattedText as a child element, not something built-in.  It would then need to have a facet for the text errors.  This would be a cool tag to have.  How do I go about getting this incorporated?

[pmuir]

Exactly - a much more interesting component if you can nest standard JSF validators, rather than a custom solution. To get it included I would create a JIRA in the RF JIRA and post a patch.

[ericjava.eric.chiralsoftware.net]

Ok, I'll see if I can turn it into an RF tag.  I've never worked within the RF code base so I don't know how to add tags to it (what do I subclass, how do I install resources, etc) but I can figure it out.