AceGWT

An integration of the Ace Editor into GWT. If you want to embed a powerful text editor in a GWT application, AceGWT might be just what you're looking for!

The wiki has more information, including:

• Documentation on using AceGWT in your application
• Screenshots
• Status: what is implemented and what isn't

Also, there is javadoc.

What is included in this forked version

This version has been updated to use GWT 2.11.0 which has switced to using a different Maven repository.

To include this library in your project you need to set up this GitHub repository as a maven repo in your pom.xml file by doing as follows:

Latest news

15 June 2018

• Converted the library and demo to Maven, using a github branch as repository
  • Package AceGWT lib mvn clean gwt:generate-module compile gwt:package-lib
  • Deploy AceGWT lib mvn clean gwt:generate-module compile gwt:package-lib deploy
  • Run demo app mvn clean gwt:generate-module compile gwt:devmode
• Updated to latest version of Ace (1.3.3)
• All courtesy of José C.Paiva.

06 February 2016:

• Bugfix for ConcurrentModificationException on removeAllMarkers(), courtesy of Gottfried Huber.

20 January 2015:

• Support for selection change events, courtesy of Roman Sutormin.

12 October 2014:

• Updated to latest version of Ace from here, plus applied a small fix which has been submitted as a push request (code changes in this push request already applied to code in this repository).
• Added autocomplete tooltip support based on latest updates to Ace Editor (forum, push request 2148).

27 June 2014:

• Added experimental support for custom autocompleters, based on suggestions from Chris Ainsley.

26 June 2014:

• Updated to latest version of Ace. A handful of new modes and themes added. Autocomplete is now supported.

18 March 2014:

• Updated to latest version of Ace. Various new editor modes and themes added. Also, AceGWT now packages the minified versions of the Ace JavaScript files, which should reduce load time.
• Issues with the text cursor position in Safari may be fixed.

25 June 2013:

• Updated to latest version of Ace, many new editor modes added.
• Initialization of AceEditor object has changed: the default constructor has been un-deprecated, and no changes should be made to the .ace_editor CSS class.