Hi Lovemore--
I can answer question 3 in part. Many moons ago there was a decision to
use FCKEditor because of its broad adoption. Since then replacing it, or
at least providing TinyMCE as an alternative, has been a high priority,
but no one within Sakai has had the bandwidth to take it on. At one
point it was hoped that an accessible version of FCKEditor could be
developed which would resolve the issue, but I'm not sure where that
stands at present.
It would be great if you could explore making it available as a plug-in...
Mike
Lovemore Nalube wrote:
Hi All
Thanks to Colin, I have hope that having an accessible Fluid Rich
Inline Editor will be a reality sooner than later.
I ran a test of the patch you provided and it's fantastic. I had a
little trouble with the following;
1. The finish() and cancel() functions aren't called properly and
hence were not working the way they should. Instead, clicking
either of them would reload the page as though a form had been
submitted.
2. Calling fluid.inlineEdits for multiple textareas will only
tranform the first textarea and not the rest.
3. Is there any reason to why TinyMCE was used as opposed to
FCKEditor? How complex would it be to plugin the latter?
I'm still looking into it, but my thought is that finish() and
cancel() functions are still not visible.
Any pointers will be welcome.
BTW, how can I contribute to the Fluid project :) ?
Kind regards to all
Lovemore Nalube
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Colin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hey all,
Recently, I've heard a lot of interest in the prospect of using
Fluid's Inline Edit component with a rich text editor. So far,
it's a feature we've done some preliminary design work for, but
not something we've looked at in depth or implemented yet.
I wanted to explore how well Inline Edit's current architecture
would support this use case. In the end, it was really easy to get
it working, and only involved minor changes to the code. Here are
the things I did:
1. I wrote a simple new TinyMCE plugin for jQuery. The existing
one was quite broken.
2. I created some HTML markup for my inline rich text editor,
consisting of a textarea and save/cancel buttons.
3. I used my TinyMCE jQuery plugin to unobtrusively turn this
textarea into a rich text editor.
4. I added a public cancel() method to InlineEdit.js, and bound it
to my Cancel button
5. I refactored any code in InlineEdit that assumed we were
working with plain text and plain old <input> tags. This code now
lives in separate methods for getting/setting values on both the
view and the edit elements.
6. I wrote two lines of TinyMCE-specific code to correctly get/set
values from it.
That's it. They key is Inline Edit's flexibility with markup, and
making sure that any assumptions can be overridden for different
contexts. To make this code cleaner, we may eventually want to
break Inline Edit up into separate views responsible for handling
different types of content and editors.
While I think it's too early to release the whole thing as a
fully-supported option for Inline Edit, I think the underlying
changes to the component are useful. I've posted a patch with an
example of this code, and I'd appreciate it if others in the
community could take a look and let me know what you think. In
particular, check out:
isEditing()
cancel()
setValueOnEditField()
getValueForEditField()
setValueOnViewText()
getValueOnViewText()
Apologies for the hard-coded paths in the patch. Has anyone else
figured out how to get Eclipse to create a diff that uses relative
paths?
Thanks,
Colin
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Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org
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University of Cape Town
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