Notepad plugin?

I understand, just wondering if it's possible to make it work as a plugin architecture.

My initial thoughts were to capture the user id, so that only members could make use of the notepad itself.

Assuming a plugin isn't practical, do you have any suggestions for a browser based Notepad as i'm describing?

Thanks for your help. 

The 'notepad' part would be for everyone to use.  The plugin would only be for admins to administer it, assuming there was a requirement for it.

In the end, 1) I'm just wondering if a plugin is even practical/necessary for something like this, and 2) does anyone know of a good php browser based Notepad that already exists, that is easy to implement.

In the grand scheme of things, the reason I inquired about a plugin to begin with is so that we could tap the inerds of punBB [to capture members id's].  This would relegate the Notepad itself so that only members could use the Notepad feature once they have registered.  the notepad would be disabled to Guests.

Everyone have their own little notes they can write down.  I suspect this would require a cookie to be set for those who made use of it.

It would be nice if they could have multiple notes, similar to quasy folders, or "containers" [links?], which would store individual clippings/snippets.  When a user clicked on the folder/container/link it would give them their particular snippet.

Ideally, in one, compact windoid.

Are you questioning the reasoning/significance of the Notepad itself?

Ok, good enough then.  That is not something I had thought of.

Quasy folder is just a way to describe the ability to save more than one snippet.  If there is no such capability, then the user is going to have one long, hugmongus thread of snippets, which would defeat the NotePads purpose/usefulness.

A windoid is a javascript popup window, whose state is such that it will aways stay in front focus of the parent browser, or "floats", until it is physically dismissed wth a close button, or close link of some kind.

heh

That's a matter of opinion, right?  I'm not debating whether it should be a plugin or not.  On the other hand, the value of such depends on the kind of forum you offer for your members.

In our case, it is a scripting related forum, so members are always cultivating code snippets here and there.  Therefore the usefullness of a browser based notepad is potentially warranted.

So, my original query remains.  Regardless if implemented as a MOD, Plugin or otherwise, does anyone know of such a browser based Notepad?  And if not, what would it take to build one and integrate it into PunBB directly?

Thanks for your consideration.

IMHO is was all about options for the members.  If a browser based notepad is made available for them, chances are they would use it. [if it's implemented right]

Yes, I know plugins are for Admins - the plugin itself would only provide the means to manage such a Notepad, if any, or required.  I just hadn't gotten that far in the scope of things yet. 

Regardless, if implemented as a Mod, I can see the value; you would have captured the users id, as well as members cookie, although you might not be able to use it in this instance [the cookies would potentially need to be different]; In the case of the Notepad, you would be using the cookie to check the members id, and number of snippets they had, and where they were stored, and so on.  I'm only speculatiing here but that is what comes to mind.

In the end, it's not a matter of whether a Notepad is useful for you, or not.  It depends on the forum it's suited for. Just because someone built a Mod for uploading images doesn't make it necessary for you to implement it into your own forum - that depends if in your judgement you have a need for it, or your members would find it useful.

In our case, we have a ton of folks who are writing/posting a ton of scripts.  That is why I felt a notepad would be useful for them in the first place.

My original query was first to see if anyone had used a browser based NotePad of any kind [javascript or php or a hybrid], and if they would oblige by pointing me to a good one.  I haven't been able to find anything doing a net search.

"I'm only speculatiing here but that is what comes to mind."

Sure, it  didn't matter to me how it was implemented.  Whatever was the best way.

I haven't even found any takers, so I figured this post was dead anyway.