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How to install Aptana Studio 3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

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These instructions are for installing the standalone version of Aptana Studio 3.

1. Install Sun Java – Aptana Studio doesn’t currently work with OpenJDK:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

2. Download & install xulrunner – Ubuntu 11.10 doesn’t include xulrunner so it must be downloaded.

If you are using Ubuntu 64 bit use:

wget -O xulrunner.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/70321329/xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.17%2Bbuild3%2Bnobinonly-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i xulrunner.deb

If you are using Ubuntu 32 bit use:

wget -O xulrunner.deb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/70321863/xulrunner-1.9.2_1.9.2.17%2Bbuild3%2Bnobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i xulrunner.deb

3. Download the Standalone version of Aptana Studio 3 from the Aptana Studio website.

4. Unzip it to /opt/aptana-studio-3:

sudo unzip [name of Aptana Studio ZIP file here].zip -d /opt
sudo mv /opt/Aptana\ Studio\ 3 /opt/aptana-studio-3

5. Install the menu item:

wget http://www.samclarke.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AptanaStudio.desktop
sudo mv AptanaStudio.desktop /usr/share/applications/AptanaStudio.desktop

That’s it, Aptana Studio 3 should now be installed and ready to use. You may need to log out and back in it to show in the menu.

Adding custom commands to SCEditor

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For instructions on setting up SCEditor, see here. Custom command support requires SCEditor version 1.2.4+.

Adding Custom Command

SCEditor has a function called setCommand which updates a command if it already exists or adds it if it doesn’t. setCommand must be called before the editor is initialised otherwise the command may not show in the editors toolbar.

setCommand parameters:
Name (string): The name of the command, should be lower-case and not contain any spaces.
Exec (string or function): Should be a function which will be called when the command is clicked or a string which will be passed to the browsers built-in execCommand function.
Tooltip (string): The commands tooltip text
Keypress: Unless the command needs to handle keypress events, omit this parameter. For an example of keypress handler see the emoticon command.

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SCEditor – A WYSIWYG HTML & BBCode editor

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SCEditor is a lightweight jQuery based WYSIWYG HTML and BBCode editor.

The aim of SCEditor is to be lightweight while still having all the features that would ever be wanted and being a good BBCode WYSIWYG editor. A demo is available here.

Features

  • Bold, underline, italic, superscript and subscript
  • Left, center, right and justify text
  • Text size, color and font
  • As You Type emoticon conversion
  • Tables
  • Lists
  • Code and quote tags
  • Images and links
  • I18n support

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