Call for testers: new Online Editor

Monday 07 July 2008 7:35:02 am

Beta4 is version out, this is most probably the last beta since all major issues are fixed.
So delete or rename the one you have, extract the new one, clear ini and template cache and give it a go.

http://ez.no/developer/contribs/applications/ez_oe_mce

Some changes:
* Custom attributes settings are reworked to be more streamlined ( content.ini )
They also have their own templates so you can easily add your own types.
* Added custom attributes 'color picker' type
* Added custom attribute to Style map to preview attributes used for style in the editor
* Fixed all custom tag related issues
* Fixed all empty paragraph related issues
* literal text in ie6 bug
More details in the change log file.

BC break compared to ezdhtml:
This issue has been in ezoe since day one: it is not possible/buggy to add links around embed tags.
The reason is that a block tag used (div) inside the editor for embed tags (unless it is defined as a image), and a link (a) cannot have block tag as child.
I will look into fixing this before next version (rc).

Bin:
Are you looking in correct svn repository? It is mentioned in content.ini and ezoe.ini (CustomAttributeStyleMap).

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Monday 07 July 2008 9:50:19 pm

Thanks Andre, the new editor looks fantastic.

I have two questions:

1) AJAX loading of eZ Templates & Online Editor.
I've been experimenting with loading eZ edit templates via an ez_xajax call and then placing the resulting code in page div.
Everything works properly except for the editor (using Beta 4). I think this is because the load/execution order of the editor javascript files and template javascript become confused (Firebug reports errors: "eZOeMCE is not defined", "tinymce is not defined" x 2).

I have been able to load the Online Editor via a xajax eZ template load by:
- Loading tiny_mce.js & ez_core.js as part of a custom pagelayout.tpl
- in ezxmltext_ezoe.tpl: adapting the "runonce" javascript code into a function that is called if not already done (ie if (typeof(window['eZOeMCE']) == 'undefined'), then load "runonce" javascript function, this check is placed in second always-run section of javascript)

Unfortunately these changes make the extension unusable for normal editing in the user/admin siteaccesses.

Qn: >> Is it possible to structure ezxmltext_ezoe.tpl so that it checks/enforces a correct sequence of javascript execution? Or perhaps there's something else I've missed?

Some other options seem to include:
- Some sort of class-based override for the ezxmltext_ezoe.tpl (but I'm not sure how to achieve this in an extension)
- A second version of extension, with different versions active for user/admin siteaccesses (only a partial solution)

Anyone else struck this? Any thoughts?

2) Color Picker? This sounds great - can you give a brief desciption of where it is used in the online editor (or how it is enabled) - I haven't managed to spot it.

Thanks

- Paul

Tuesday 08 July 2008 6:20:11 am

Andrew:
- Which Browser?
- linebreaks in the final html or in the editor (no <br /> tags?)
- which clipboard are you using?
- try for debugging to claim that your browser is firefox or camino instead of safari.
- is remove_linebreaks set on or off?

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Tuesday 08 July 2008 1:57:52 pm

Just to inform everyone, I needed to remove this from trunk today (CustomAttributeStyleMap):
>Added custom attribute to Style map to preview attributes used for style in the editor

Reason is that if you use color in that feature on a inline custom or embed tag (span tags in editor), they will be converted to font tags in ie / ff / opera for some reason and then removed when you re publish / store the object. So until I find a way to workaround/fix this and test it more, please be careful when / avoid using this feature.

Paul:
As I mentioned, look into the scripts / css loaded with ezoescript / ezoecss operators, might help.

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Wednesday 09 July 2008 2:37:47 am

André R.

Hi, my svn is http://svn.ez.no/svn/extensions/eztinymce
and in trunk/ezoe/settings/ezoe.ini or content.ini
i didn't find CustomAttributeStyleMap ?

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Friday 11 July 2008 9:22:25 am

Hi André,

I would like to know if it was possible to map buttons with custom attributes, like for the bold or italic button. I think it coul be very useful :-)

Monday 14 July 2008 10:16:44 am

There are still some weird things happening with literal boxes.

1) When I insert a new literal, it is pre-filled with an empty space. I expect many people to have problems with spotting/removing the space, and it is kept there later.

2) When I try to leave an empty line (but not a paragraph), it would get converted into a paragraph brake, for example:

<?php

echo 's';

?>

after processing will no longer be a five-line code, but a three line with a paragraph! Try to put the above code into a literal box, publish, and re-edit.

3) Following the above, paragraph empty lines (or endings) seem to get replicated each time the attribute is eddited/stored. Just put this code in the literal:

Line #1

Line #3

and store several times. At first, the empty line will get converted into a paragraph, then in will become two, then three, then five, then eight... and so on ;(

Should literal actually include any paragraphs (logic) at all?

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Tuesday 15 July 2008 4:24:48 am

1) should I fill it with tag name instead if no text is selected? ('literal')

So I assume you have to fill it with something? Not sure what would be better...

2 & 3) Seems to be caused by a line from the old editor.
Please test by commenting out line ~1139 in ezxmltext/handlers/input/ezoexmlinput.php:

Yup, this is it. Will you fix that or will we have to remember about that line when using new OE with eZ 4.0.x?

Thanks!

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Friday 18 July 2008 4:40:08 am

Some feedback on a short testing of beta4 (ff 2.0.14 on xp):

- literal tags get some newlines eaten when switching from oe view to plain view and then back to oe view. After publishing content and going back to edit it again, there are otoh a lot of newlines added

- adding an anchor after having selected some text does not create the anchor over that text but deletes it

- when creting a link, I think the "view" selector should be disabled when the type of link is not eznode or ezobject...

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Friday 18 July 2008 8:07:31 am

I have deactivated the DHTML extension and everything seems to work fine