Reorder list in editor (checkbox, ordered or unordered list)

[theachoem]

Similar to GitHub issue is great!

[theachoem]

We should to implement it directly in flutter-quill:

singerdmx/flutter-quill#1557

[CatHood0]

It can be done, but it requires several changes to the current structure of the project, since certain changes need to be listened to and so on.

I was thinking of doing it, since I have seen that it could be convenient depending on what the editor is used for.

Currently, those of us who maintain the project certainly have it complicated, because we want to avoid errors that cause many problems (one example was the magnifier).

Edit: Sorry if I didn't work in this feature. Flutter Quill was one of the most difficult things to work with. The Author never cares about the issues and I just quit to maintain my mental sanith. I'm now working on my own editor (originally fork of AppFlowy-editor), now I have most of the features that couldn't add to Flutter Quill without breaking it. You can check it in my profile and my organization. I'm planning to add support to parse to/from Quill Delta.

[theachoem]

@CatHood0 would be so convenient to have this one, I am using StoryPad every day and very bad that I can't do this.

[CatHood0]

Don't worry, I understand. I've been working my tail off trying to improve certain aspects of Flutter Quill that even cause me problems.

For now, I'm not saying that I'll implement it right away. First I'm figuring out how I can improve the performance in general, and little by little I'll add that I'll try the drag and drop of the nodes.

[theachoem]

Let's move my issues list to my internal StoryPad note instead, where I track my progress from there until making a PR. Keep this issue section for the public only.

[Mayaela]

Hi. Thank you for all the work. Any news on this @theachoem ? This would really elevate the experience on storypad, it really is necessary for task management in my opinion. Currently it's really difficult to maintain a simple task list without this feature. Without reordering, you can't prioritize your tasks quickly. You have to cut and paste items one by one and try not to mess up your list. 😭 (I was looking for a backlog, a kanban board or something to see visually what's definitely coming, maybe coming long term, what's in progress etc. Couldn't find it but please let me know if it can be found somewhere)

[CatHood0]

I don't know if you are still worrying about this, but, I have my own rich text editor now, and it has support for reordering blocks.

I couldn't help you with this request since the Flutter Quill editor is in a state that modifying it can breaks anything. So, I quit from the team.

If the content is a problem (since the editor use a more "efficient" content implementation) to allow a great compatibility with previous versions, you can use the novident_editor_quill_parser that provides full support to export and import from Quill Delta to Novident JSON format.

https://github.com/Novident/novident-editor

If you don't want to implement it since it takes time and other complexities I can understand, so, there's no problem.

[theachoem]

@CatHood0 It look great, let me try it and let's see.

[CatHood0]

You can try to replicate this example with my editor. Since it's a fork of appflowy, it inherits most of the features (most of them renamed with the "Novident" prefix).

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy-editor/blob/main/example/lib/pages/drag_to_reorder_editor.dart

[CatHood0]

Be careful, if you give too much importance certain native functions like the "Select All" from the keyboard (mobile), probably you will have a bad time using my editor.

To ensure the best perfomance in huge documents (like ~150.000 words, or ~9000 nodes) during scroll, auto-scroll, selecting things, interacting with nodes, and editing the document to have at least 60FPS most of the time (commonly in Profile or Release mode, since the IME puts too much logs in the console), I had to sacrifice some parts of the native functions.

I tested the perfomance in my potato mobile, that can crash just playing Geometry Dash.

See: Novident/novident-editor#32

[theachoem]

These native menu are important to me. Isn't it just flutter widget right?

This is also one of thing that holding me back from super_editor. I wonder if it is because same reason.