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.

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.