TinyMCE plugin

Ok...so here it goes:

Take a look at the attachments to my post.? You’ll see the dialog boxes for the inserting links and images.? Looks like some variables aren’t being assigned right.? Looks like a simple thing to fix though.? That’s bug number one.? Now...on to other matters...

On my installation, the menu for TinyMCE appears at the bottom of the editor field.? I tend to err on the side of consistency.? Considering that FCK and Xinha have the menus at the top of the editor field, the same should apply to TinyMCE.? That’s just me though and I think when it comes to your average user, they’re used to menus being at the top.

Also, if you go to the TinyMCE website (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/), the latest version is 1.45.? The current plugin is using version? 1.22...which is fine but I think we should stay ahead of the curve.? Looking at the examples on the TinyMCE website, I’ve noticed that they have added a feature set that is very similar to FCK.? I really like what I see so far.? Looks like they’ve concentrated quite a bit on maintaining strict DHTML code output...which is fantastic.? As an example, take a look at the options available for creating links.? Notice the options for creating a popup link with JavaScript.? This kicks ass for those who want to use a strict XML doctype since the Target attribute has been depricated.? They have also integrated a pretty slick image manager.? Not only can you assign a mouse over image, but the Image Browser also has some abilities to edit images as well.? All in all, I’d say they’re giving FCK and Xinha a run for their money!? Very impressive stuff!?

I think we should do what we can to integrate the most current version in.? Only problems I see is the integration of the Resource Manager.? TinyMCE appears to have integrated their own Image and File browser and I’m not sure just yet if a substitution can be made.? Who knows...we might decide that TinyMCE is so good that there’s no point in trying to use the MCPUK browser for this.? I’ll play around with the new version and see what I can come up with for you guys to check out.?

Great stuff Jeff! I agree on grabbing the latest version for sure. And I really am a bigger fan of Tiny because you can do some pretty cool stuff in it. Like delete without having to add stuff first.

The only thing I think is that it lacks FCK’s paste-from-word stuff, which is incredibly handy...

Let’s just create a more up to date version with all their bells and whistles and not worry about overriding comprable browser features with MCPUK (or whatever it is).

Actually...if you look at the examples on the TinyMCE website, particularly the Full featured example, they do have a Paste from Word feature now. What I envision is something similar to the way the FCKeditor plugin has...the ability to choose which feature set to have for each user. We could have Simple, Advanced, and Full Featured as settings. The Full Featured setting would likely need to be tweaked a bit. For instance, do we really need a Save button? Probably not. Just take a look at the Full Featured example though...you’ll agree that it’s definitely worth having. What’s odd is the other settings (Simple and Advanced) still have the menu at the bottom. I think it could be tweaked to allow for the menu to be at the top...which I think should be the case.

Good going Jeff!

I’ld say go it and let’s see how the new version compares to FCKEditor. We also need to test Form creations, etc

Well...all I can say is...SHIT! Turns out that the file and image manager in TinyMCE (dubbed MCFileManager and MCImageManager respectively) aren’t free but commercial plugins by MoxieCode. So..what does this mean for us? It means that we’re going to have to develop our own damn plugin in TinyMCE to integrate whatever file browser and/or image manager we chose. Sigh! Oh what fun! LOL!

Question though...is there currently any examples that show integration with either the MCPUK Resource Browser or the ImageManager in TinyMCE? If so, we could save some time and use it as a start point.

What about the Ibrouwser and Imanager from net4visions.com (mmjaeger
@ etomiteforums)

http://www.etomite.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2622 (iBrowser)
http://www.etomite.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2597 (iManager)
Imanager Demo at http://net4visions.com/dev/imanager/imanager.php
IBrowser Demo at http://net4visions.com/dev/imanager/imanager.php

I played around with it in FCK and it looks realy nice and it is GNU Licenced

Dimmy

I’ve tried iBrowser and iManager too. Seems pretty good...but it also seemed a little slow to me. Problem about implementing this is the fact that it only works with images. Thus we would still have the problem of implementing the Resource Browser into the mix to cover file management.

installed tiny and got nothing in my admin screen. While smf comes up fine.

clean install
osx 10.4.1
firefox 1.0.3

Hi,

Open the file assets/plugins/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_image/fck_image.js

look for the function OpenServerBrowser() and SetUrl.

The SetUrl function is used by the Resource browser to pass the selected file to the parent window.

Hope that helps

Quote from: xwisdom at Jul 21, 2005, 10:54 PM

Hi,

Open the file assets/plugins/fckeditor/editor/dialog/fck_image/fck_image.js

look for the function OpenServerBrowser() and SetUrl.

The SetUrl function is used by the Resource browser to pass the selected file to the parent window.

Hope that helps

Hmm...I noticed that myself. Just before leaving work yesterday I thought about how these functions could be used in the TinyMCE Image dialog box. Looks like it might work...guess we’ll see!