Possibility to replace canvas with rich text editor?

[Teolone88]

Hi,

I am trying to replace the canvas with a rich text editor (Toast UI editor) to be exact.
I am using the Shiny package shinymarkdown and would be amazing to have those available for writing a report or something similar. (https://github.com/jdtrat/shinymarkdown)

Would be there any option to do that?

Best,

Teo

[lz100]

Hi @Teolone88 , I am not very clear what you want here. If you want to use the editor, you can just call the shinymarkdown::mdInput on your UI. shinymarkdown::mdInput and drawer::canvas can be added to the same UI.

ui <- fluidPage(
    shinymarkdown::mdInput(inputId = "editor1"),
    drawer::canvas(canvasID = "canvas")
)

server <- function(input, output, session) {}

shinyApp(ui, server)

Why do you need to replace the canvas?

[Teolone88]

I wanted to drop the picture from drawer in the rich editor but they cannot be resized, unless is canvas.
Would you be able to suggest me an alternative?

[lz100]

This is currently not possible. The resizing ability only works if the rich editor support html5 canvas and fabirc.js. You may want to ask the author of {shinymarkdown} to support {drawer}. I cannot do anything to the editor on my end.