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I have worked with tinyMCE before and I like it a lot
One thing that would be nice would be to be able to decide
which tinyMCE plugins to load without having to edit
drakecms/editor/tiny_mce2/editor.php
I don't mind
editing editor.php, but it makes upgrading Drake a little more
work.
It takes a long time to load all the tinyMCE
plugins even on my local machine and it seems unnecessary since I
will not use many of the plugins.
Also, like I said, I
have worked a lot with TinyMCE, and many other javascript rich
text editors. Although TinyMCE is the best one in my opinion, it
is still does not make perfect code, especially when someone who
does not know HTML tries to make massive edits on a long article.
The code gets bloated to a ridiculous size and the user
eventually calls me and complains that he can no longer edit his
page! The best way I have found to minimize this problem is to
severely limit what the user can do with TinyMCE (or any other
javascript rich text editor).
Also, the
"browse" button in the "insert/edit" image
dialog box doesn't seem to do anything. When I click it, the text
"someurl.htm" gets inserted in the image url box and
that's it.
Also, the last button in the toolbar(it
looks like a yellow rectangle with a little black triangle beside
it) seems to be broken. I can't tell you which button it is
because the tooltip just says "{$lang_imanager_desc}"
trex1512
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
11 May 2007 09:34
Anonymous
Hi
The missing button is the image manager
plugin...error flagged for attention..
Re your other
suggestion, the old TinyMCE as distinct from TinyMCE2 is also
included in the current distribution, I don't know for how much
longer, it may be worthwhile looking at it as it is configured
with a lot less.
Thanks
legolas558
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
16 May 2007 00:07
Anonymous
Quote:
I have worked
with tinyMCE before and I like it a lot
We too Quote:
One thing that would be nice would be to be able to decide
which tinyMCE plugins to load without having to edit
drakecms/editor/tiny_mce2/editor.php
I don't mind
editing editor.php, but it makes upgrading Drake a little more
work.
It takes a long time to load all the tinyMCE
plugins even on my local machine and it seems unnecessary since I
will not use many of the plugins.
Pleeease, tell us
what to leave apart! tinyMCE2 is about 1.2 MB while the old
tinyMCE was 160 KB (if I remember correctly).
If you
can provide us a modified version of tinyMCE2 which loads only
the core plugins (in the style of the old tinyMCE) we will use it
in the next release.
Quote:
Also, like I said, I have worked a lot with
TinyMCE, and many other javascript rich text editors. Although
TinyMCE is the best one in my opinion, it is still does not make
perfect code, especially when someone who does not know HTML
tries to make massive edits on a long article. The code gets
bloated to a ridiculous size and the user eventually calls me and
complains that he can no longer edit his page! The best way I
have found to minimize this problem is to severely limit what the
user can do with TinyMCE (or any other javascript rich text
editor).
We need your
experience. Please tell us how to make it more usable; I am
definitively for disabling the unnecessary stuff.
Quote:
Also, the
"browse" button in the "insert/edit" image
dialog box doesn't seem to do anything. When I click it, the text
"someurl.htm" gets inserted in the image url box and
that's it.
Sorry, the browser integration part
is not yet written. Yet another thing to do Quote:
Also, the last
button in the toolbar(it looks like a yellow rectangle with a
little black triangle beside it) seems to be broken. I can't tell
you which button it is because the tooltip just says
"{$lang_imanager_desc}"
@trex1512: can
you please handle this?
hbryant
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
16 May 2007 06:06
Anonymous
Hi,
I'm piecing together something that's at least
"kind of" portable. I'm including a custom image select
dialog and page/file select dialog(for the 'insert/edit link'
button), that may or may not be useful. I was still learning php
when I first wrote those so the code is not optimized as well as
it could be. Hopefully I will have it packaged up by tomorrow. I
can't add attachments to this forum and I don't have svn
installed on this computer and I have never used cvs before. How
should I send you the zip file?
legolas558
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
16 May 2007 06:21
Anonymous
Quote:
Hi,
I'm piecing together something that's at least "kind
of" portable. I'm including a custom image select dialog and
page/file select dialog(for the 'insert/edit link' button), that
may or may not be useful. I was still learning php when I first
wrote those so the code is not optimized as well as it could be.
Hopefully I will have it packaged up by tomorrow. I can't add
attachments to this forum and I don't have svn installed on this
computer and I have never used cvs before. How should I send you
the zip file?
About the page/file select
dialog: you'd have to use the Drake CMS API..I'd suggest you not
to spend too much time on that since your work might not be
introduced in the core if it does not comply to our planned
feature.
About the minimized tinyMCE2 editor package:
please submit an item to our patches tracker (you can
also add attachments there); if you do not want other people to
see the item, mark it as private and only the project admins (me,
trex1512 and rsavarese) will be able to see it.
Thank
you very much!
hbryant
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
17 May 2007 12:35
Anonymous
Hi,
I finally got my stripped down version of TinyMCE2
together. I took out my custom image picker and link picker
because they were not written with the Drake API and you have
probably written something better anyway.
I tried to
upload the file to the tracker, but I got an error: Uploaded
file must be >20 and <256000 bytes.
The file I'm
trying to upload is 269KB, so I guess I can't upload it to SF.
Is there somewhere else I can send it?
legolas558
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
17 May 2007 13:53
Anonymous
Quote:
Hi,
I
finally got my stripped down version of TinyMCE2 together. I took
out my custom image picker and link picker because they were not
written with the Drake API and you have probably written
something better anyway.
Not yet, but will of
course; the purpose is not to offer security vulnerabilities
through those plugins. And, definitively, image uploading
will be editor-independent.
Quote:
I tried to
upload the file to the tracker, but I got an error: Uploaded
file must be >20 and <256000 bytes.
The file I'm
trying to upload is 269KB, so I guess I can't upload it to SF.
You'd have to split it into two chunks, if you are
able to
Quote:
Is there somewhere else I can send it?
I will
privately tell you my email address
legolas558
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
17 May 2007 21:07
Anonymous
Good news hbryant, I have reviewed the edited tinyMCE2 you sent
me and since I think it is better and does not remove important
plugins I have merged it to the trunk.
The old tinyMCE
(version 1) will be removed in v0.4.2
One further
question: do you know if it is possible to disable the
"Path" on the statusbar? If it gets anyway parsed maybe
it would be better to leave it there, but I am wondering if we
can save some computation hiding it...
Thank you
legolas558
Re : A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor
17 May 2007 21:11
Anonymous
Do you know if it is possible to have an image insertion wizard
like the one in the old tinyMCE?
And, when you will
have time, please review the other editors available through SVN
at:
A small wish regarding tinyMCE editor 
