Rails spinoffs - Dec 2005 - RE: Scriptaculous and Prototype based Rich TextEditor

What I have so far.

In my main HTML:

	<script type="text/javascript"
src="/javascripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_src.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
		tinyMCE.init({
			mode: "textareas",
			theme: ''advanced'',
			theme_advanced_toolbar_location: ''top''
		});
		...
	</script>

My Ajax form has a textarea like this:

	<textarea name="text-foo" id="text-foo"><%=
@item.text
%></textarea>

When my form appears on the page with the magic of Ajax (this is in a
method in a wrapper object I use):

	this.editor_id = ''mce_editor_'' + tinyMCE.idCounter;
	tinyMCE.execCommand("mceAddControl", true, edit_element.id);

In my ''Save'' function - the tinyMCE onsubmit code is hooked in
too late
for my purposes:

	tinyMCE.triggerSave();

The important part - when my Ajax form gets removed from the page:

	tinyMCE.execCommand("mceRemoveControl", true, this.editor_id);


If you don''t remove the tinyMCE control when your form gets removed,
all
sorts of bad things occur.  The ''this.editor_id'' value of
''mce_editor_<id>'' is the documented way of doing what
I''m doing, but the
idCounter isn''t documented.  The ''mceAddControl''
doesn''t return the id
you need, so you have to construct it.

There are about 10,000 options you can set in the ''init'' call,
but I
haven''t looked too closely there yet.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Clayburn
[mailto:rob-M+duPSAH6l8PldudreuJTlpr/1R2p/CL@public.gmane.org]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 1:54 AM
To: rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Scriptaculous and Prototype based Rich
TextEditor

Hi Tom

I''m just about to start on integrating TinyMCE (which is a great
editor)
with scriptaculous, any pointers on what you''ve learnt would be really
appreciated!

Cheers
Rob

Tom Fakes wrote:
>I tried using Dojo''s editor - 0.2.1 - and it crashes my Firefox
every
>time!  I''m currently integrating tinyMCE, and after 60 minutes of
work,
>I almost have it working with my dynamic elements.  tinyMCE is very
>large though, but very feature rich.
>
>One thing about the Silk icons - they are .png files, with
transparency,
>so IE doesn''t display them correctly.
>  
>
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HI all

I also need a rich text editor, tried Dojo, it seemded to work fine, but on
one of these says, after upgrading my environment to the latest libs, Dojo
kept crashing Firefox on windows XP Ajax pages.

I really like Pelle lightwight apporach and I also think the silk icons
would fit nicely to the toolbar. Unfortunately I am not a javascript expert,
but I will take a look at the code and if I manage to impove something, I
will post the result.

Has anybody played with Pelles code yet ? Pelle, do you continue to work on
it and if yes, where do you post new builds ?

regards
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I am working on a project using Dojo and Tiny MCE, however I would be
interested to know more about this pelle lightweight if possible?

On 31/12/05, Roberto Saccon
<rsaccon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> HI all
>
> I also need a rich text editor, tried Dojo, it seemded to work fine, but
> on one of these says, after upgrading my environment to the latest libs,
> Dojo kept crashing Firefox on windows XP Ajax pages.
>
> I really like Pelle lightwight apporach and I also think the silk icons
> would fit nicely to the toolbar. Unfortunately I am not a javascript
expert,
> but I will take a look at the code and if I manage to impove something, I
> will post the result.
>
> Has anybody played with Pelles code yet ? Pelle, do you continue to work
> on it and if yes, where do you post new builds ?
>
> regards
> --
> Roberto Saccon - http://rsaccon.com
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well, as first step to know more, just take a look at the source code at
Pelles initial post of this thread (if you haven''t yet)

regards

On 1/1/06, Sam Sherlock
<sam.sherlock-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> I am working on a project using Dojo and Tiny MCE, however I would be
> interested to know more about this pelle lightweight if possible?
>
> On 31/12/05, Roberto Saccon
<rsaccon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > HI all
> >
> > I also need a rich text editor, tried Dojo, it seemded to work fine,
but
> > on one of these says, after upgrading my environment to the latest
libs,
> > Dojo kept crashing Firefox on windows XP Ajax pages.
> >
> > I really like Pelle lightwight apporach and I also think the silk
icons
> > would fit nicely to the toolbar. Unfortunately I am not a javascript
expert,
> > but I will take a look at the code and if I manage to impove
something, I
> > will post the result.
> >
> > Has anybody played with Pelles code yet ? Pelle, do you continue to
work
> > on it and if yes, where do you post new builds ?
> >
> > regards
> > --
> > Roberto Saccon - http://rsaccon.com
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rails-spinoffs mailing list
> > Rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
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> >
> >
> >
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