Change Toolbar at Runtime

thanks for sharing

azilberbaum wrote:Anyone know how to change the toolbar at runtime?

Unfortunately I found only one way how to resolve this issue: using editor.destroy(). And it works for me. You can try my plugin switchbar attached below.

How to use it:
1) unzip it into ckeditor/plugins/
2) add the code about toolbars into ckeditor/config.js file

config.toolbar_Basic = 
[
    ['SwitchBar','-','Source', '-', 'Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline' ],
    ['NumberedList','BulletedList', '-', 'Outdent','Indent', 'Blockquote','CreateDiv'],
    ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
    ['Link','Unlink'],
    ['Image','Table'],
    '/',
    ['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
        ['TextColor','BGColor'],
        ['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks']
];
config.toolbar_Full = 
[
    ['SwitchBar','-','Source','-','NewPage'],
    ['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
    ['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
    '/',
    ['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
    ['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote','CreateDiv'],
    ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
    ['BidiLtr', 'BidiRtl' ],
    ['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
    ['Image','Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
    '/',
    ['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
    ['TextColor','BGColor'],
    ['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','About']
];

You can change how different toolbars should be looked, but it's better to leave 'Switchbar' on the first position so that the user wouldn't move the mouse switching between toolbars.

3) during the creation CKEditor add 'switchbar' into extraPlugins option:

var config = {
   ... //your parameters
   
   //plugin parameters
   switchBarSimple  : 'Basic',
   switchBarReach   : 'Full',
   switchBarDefault : 'Basic',

   toolbar : 'Basic',    // Loads toolbar_Name where Name = Basic

   extraPlugins: 'switchbar'

};
CKEDITOR.replace( 'YOUR_TEXTAREA_ID', config );

I posted same question earlier.

It seems under FCKEditor 2.5, there was method like this.
<EditorInstance>.ToolbarSet.Load( '<ToolbarName>' )

There must be alternative way of this....

thezen5 wrote:There must be alternative way of this....

Did you submit a feature request for CKEditor development?

I would be nice if there where such function.

Not yet.
I've been waiting someone answers my question.
Because since there was such method in 2.5, I thought there must be in 3.0.
I'll post request later.
So I don't need to destroy instance each time.
That would be nice.

diter98 wrote:

thezen5 wrote:There must be alternative way of this....

Did you submit a feature request for CKEditor development?

I would be nice if there where such function.

hello,
There is a BUG in this plugin!
when you click on Maximize (to FULL SCREEN), and then click on SwitchBar the editor will disappear !


check on IE7, IE8, CHROME 10+, FF 4, Safari 5+, Opera 11

plz help !! ??????