Market Needs a Better Editor

I am simply sick of this crap editor in 7.1----> It's far from user-friendly and not enough tools.

I hope somebody gets with it and puts something worth buying out on the market.

PLEASE!

Thanks!

I have no idea what you are talking about.

You see this editor that we are using right here?

This is closer to what I had on 7.09----> and I like it.

Now- On my 7.1 site, it's like the editor got scaled back....Hell- people can't change font colors or the size-----> That BLOWS!

If you are talking about the tinyMCE editor, you can enable all the buttons you wish.  You can add plugins to the tinyMCE editor as well.  You can even create new tinyMCE editors (there are two files to edit, one is the tinyMCE configuration file and the other is the one that will handle the assignment of which editor to load as in HTML => 2 or HTML =>3; I think number 2 is the one with most of the buttons predefine.  You can even add an image uploader using a plugin.

If you need help with this, I will try to find some time to help.

right on geek_girl- sounds cool...

I'll start digging around here and getting familiar with the files

I was just reading about some of what you just mentioned and was hoping I was getting somewhere in the ballpark...

So yeah this is way cool- thank you

Awwww.....OK- This sounds dumb, but we rarely use our forum yet....

Our Forum has the TinyMCE I'm wanting on ALL mods....

Once I figure that out, then I can go to work adding those 2 plugins I like for uploading images and inserting embed code (You know- with the "EMBED" Icon)

OK, the configuration for TinyMCE different editors are in /templates/base/scripts/BxBaseEditorsTinyMCE.php.  If you are not interested in creating a new editor, then the other file is not important but I will see if I can recall it.

Now, there is a basic editor that will default if an editor is not selected.  If you say, HTML => true, it will use the first editor in the list.  There is an editor that is used for comments that has a limited toolbar, that was one of the first editors I had to expand on so users could do such things as embed in comments and add smileys.

If you go to tinymce.com, you can see all the available buttons you can add; some will require you add the plugin.  If the plugin is not found, TinyMCE will not add the button to the toolbar when it initialises.  You can find free tinyMCE plugins on the net; most are hosted at sourceforge and some listed there are outdated; no longer maintained.

OK Great! That's get me rolling here- Sweet!

The forum, since it was started as a stand-alone application, has its own TinyMCE init.  You need to work with the tinyMce file I mentioned.

To change the editor used in some modules, you need to edit the module code so that it is pointing to the TinyMCE configuration you wish to use.  I had to do this in a market mod the other day, it was pointing to an editor that had limited toolbars; I pointed it to the full editor just by changing HTML => 3 to HTML => 2; number 2 is probably the editor that you are interested in for most areas; however, you will probably want to add some buttons that are missing.

Right on....this is going to be a cool little project then.

Back on 7.09 I had Anton do some modifying for Profile Composer (Add Blocks)....

I'm going try to find some of those notes....I should understand them better now X~)

Here is the mini editor that I am using for the comment boxes.  Below it is the original code that shipped with 7.1.

    protected static $WIDTH_MINI = '340px';
    protected static $CONF_MINI = "
                        plugins: 'autolink,autosave,lists,inlinepopups,paste,fullscreen,embed,emotions',
                        width: '100%',
                        height: '150',
                        theme: 'advanced',
                        theme_advanced_buttons1: 'bold,italic,underline,removeformat,|,bullist,numlist,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,|,blockquote,|,link,unlink,image',
                        theme_advanced_buttons2: 'fontselect,fontsizeselect,|,forecolor,backcolor,|,embed,code,|,emotions',
                        theme_advanced_buttons3: '',
                        theme_advanced_toolbar_location: 'top',
                        theme_advanced_toolbar_align: 'center',
                        theme_advanced_statusbar_location: 'none',
    ";

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    protected static $WIDTH_MINI = '340px';
    protected static $CONF_MINI = "
                        plugins: 'autolink,autosave,lists,inlinepopups,paste,fullscreen',
                        width: '100%',
                        height: '150',
                        theme: 'advanced',
                        theme_advanced_buttons1: 'bold,italic,underline,removeformat,|,bullist,numlist,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,|,blockquote,|,link,unlink,image',
                        theme_advanced_buttons2: '',
                        theme_advanced_buttons3: '',
                        theme_advanced_toolbar_location: 'top',
                        theme_advanced_toolbar_align: 'left',
                        theme_advanced_statusbar_location: 'none',
    ";

Here is the embed plugin; not written by me.  You add it to the plugin folder of the TinyMCE folder under /plugins/tiny_mce/plugins.  Then you add it to the list of plugins; see my example, then just add embed to the button list; again, see my example.

 Awww There we go- That's Perfect for comments!

I started working on this a while back and stopped....

I have the PHPImage folder dropped in there (in the Plug-Ins dir)....

So same thing yes (as with the embed folder)?

 Yes, same thing.  I am using DeeEmm's; sad that he left the Dolphin world, integration of TinyBrowser, for letting a member upload and insert images.  I need to do a write up of that for someone else on the forum.

I'm missing something....

I changed all the "image" to "phpimage" and lost my image icon (the little tree)

Embed worked though

I am not familiar with the phpimage plugin, let me go look.

 Ooops! I got it! X~) forgot to add to the list of plugins to include- WooHoo!

    protected static $CONF_MINI = "
                        plugins: 'autolink,autosave,lists,inlinepopups,paste,fullscreen,embed,emotions,phpimage',

I can send it to ya if you like....it's the upload image or link image option

I don't have knowledge about the phpimage plugin, http://www.boonex.com/m/DeeEmm_Dolphin_7_x_x_TinyMCE_Media_Browser_2010_05_17.  Since DeeEmm had already did the work on integrating TinyBrowser, I went with it.  One thing about it is that it separates our each user's images they have uploaded into their own folder.

Of course some slight modification to the install since 7.1 works a bit different; see here: http://www.boonex.com/forums/?action=goto&search=1#topic/DeeEmm-s-TinyMCE-Media-Browser.htm