Answered Load lexicons on all manager pages in Javascript

Hi all,

I'm currently working on a new component for MODX. My component can launch a window on every manager page and I want to load my lexicons for Javascript. To use it like _('mycmp.lexicon').

Does anyone know how this works?

Regards, Bert

What I have done now; but hope there is a way much nicer then this
I've added this in the plugin which is OnManagerPageInit



After that I do a $modx->regClientStartupHTMLBlock(); and added lexicons as a json string.

Working in JS file now is possible with mycmp object..

like to hear if there are better approach out there

Hey Bert, have you created an action for your CMP? I'm not sure exactly how you're doing it if you've made it available on every manager page, but normally you would assign a lexicon topic when creating your action (System > Actions > Language Topics).

The lexicon strings would then be available within your JS code like this _('mycmp.lexicon')

I've done this by a plugin which is loaded on event OnManagerPageInit

I dont have an action created because there are not specific manager pages for my component

In that case I don't have any further ideas, although it would be nicer to use the native lexicon support rather than the json array.

If I were you I would be looking into the manager files and see how the default lexicons are initialised there, then try and use the same method within your plugin.

Thanks Lucas!
I did debug the core files, but there looks like there isn't a way to hook in on that

if anyone else have any idea that would be welcome!

Yeah! That's what I do now too!
The $modx->controller->addLexiconTopic('componentname:default'); is indeed working.