CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal does nothing

I've been wanting to move my custom plugins into a seperate folder, so they won't get entangled with the original source code.

But sadly, the CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal command appears to do absolutely nothing. It does not add the plugin, nor does it throw an error in Firebug.

The plugin is placed in the /alek/lib/cke/randomizer folder.
This is the code I added to my config.js:

CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal("randomizer", "/alek/lib/cke/randomizer/");

What on earth could be wrong? Been bashing my skull in about this for days now...

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 19:55

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal does nothing

addExternal only tells CKEditor where to look for such plugin, but it doesn't really add the plugin itself.

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 20:20

voskat

Joined: 27/01/2010

Posts: 19

Re: CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal does nothing

Ah ok, then how do I activate the plugin?

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 20:46

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal does nothing

Like any other plugin, you add it to extraPlugins.
As I said addExternal only tells CKEditor to load those files from a different path, but there's no real difference; everything else should be just the same unless you have a bug in your code.

Fri, 08/10/2012 - 14:32

voskat

Joined: 27/01/2010

Posts: 19

Re: CKEDITOR.plugins.addExternal does nothing

Thanks!
My skull feels better now.