Customize a plugin

Hello,
I'm using CKeditor 3.0 (rev4148) and I'd like to modify a plugin very ligthly. I've changed the source code in the ckeditor/_source/plugin/xxx directory but can't find how to regenerate the ckeditor/plugin/xxx/plugin.js. And BTW it seems like I also have to regenerate the main ckeditor/ckeditor.js.

I've searched the web and sort of understood that I should use ckreleaser but I can't figure out where I could get it. None of the tutorial I could find deal with this.

Could anyone give me a hand on this?

Cheers,
Gildas

Fri, 01/15/2010 - 18:22

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Customize a plugin

You need CKPackager. CKReleaser is meant to be used with the SVN code and I think that you are using just the released version.
You can get a rough guide in this post: http://alfonsoml.blogspot.com/2009/12/r ... -your.html

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:26

iuliusandu

Joined: 03/03/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Customize a plugin

Wouldn't this package the plugin.js files only? What if I modified one of the dialogues as well?
Or even created my own plugin that has a dialogue file?
My understanding is that CKPackager doesn't touch the dialogues so they aren't minified then.

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:53

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Customize a plugin

Dialogs aren't packaged into the core, they are loaded on demand.
If you want to add your plugin to the core, then read my post and do some tests

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 18:08

iuliusandu

Joined: 03/03/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Customize a plugin

I understand that the dialogues aren't packaged into the core. But they are minified - at least the default CKEditor dialogues. I was only asking if there is a way to minify them using CKPackager/CKReleaser or should I minify them using a minifier tool (and if so which one)?

In other words how do I minify a potential dialog at "_source/plugins/calculator/dialogs/calc.js" ?
Is looks to me like a pertinent question, isn't it?

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 19:09

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Customize a plugin

You can chose whatever minifier that you want. The big impact is the initial page load and avoiding loading too many files.
Loading a file with extra 1kb after the page is loaded won't be a big problem

Edit: and using CKReleaser then you can minify also your dialogs, after all there's nothing hardcoded. I'm not sure about the behavior in CKPackager, but I think that it could also work

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 19:43

iuliusandu

Joined: 03/03/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Customize a plugin

Thanks Alfonso, will give that a go. Also like you said, it's probably not a big deal to leave it unminified as long as it doesn't affect the page loading process.
On a different note I've noticed there was a "dragresizetable" plugin in FCKEditor which doesn't exist in CKEditor.
Is there any plan to convert that plugin any time soon?

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 20:14

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Customize a plugin

It seems that no one filed a ticket about this, so I've created this one: http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/5268

Anyway, there are other parts that have higher priority, so if anyone can do the port it will help a lot.