how to get name of current instance from plugin?

currently im using a hardcoded instance name

in my plugin iframe php file i have in the header jscript the following:

var CKEDITOR   = window.parent.CKEDITOR;
var oEditor   = CKEDITOR.instances.info_content;

Mon, 11/30/2009 - 21:41

luckdragon

Joined: 23/11/2009

Posts: 15

Re: how to get name of current instance from plugin?

well beautiful it is not but it works...

var CKEDITOR   = window.parent.CKEDITOR;   
for ( var i in CKEDITOR.instances ){
   var currentInstance = i;
   break;
}
var oEditor   = CKEDITOR.instances[currentInstance];

of course this only works as long as you have only 1 editor in the page......
which thankfully i do in this case but its certainly not the best solution.

Wed, 12/09/2009 - 19:41

adico

Joined: 02/11/2009

Posts: 100

Re: how to get name of current instance from plugin?

well, if you only have one instance of the plugin, there is no point in doing the for-loop, that is, instead of you could use

   oEditor = CKEDITOR.currentInstance;

this will give you the current instance.

This raises an interesting question. Is there a property that gives the index of the current instance? That is, I currently have 3 instances of the editor on my page. When the user clicks on one, I'd like to know the index of the editor, something like

   oEditor = CKEDITOR.currentInstance.getIndex();

Instead, I am currently comparing the editor's name, which as you can see is pretty ugly

if ("editor_kama" == oEditor.name)

Tue, 03/15/2011 - 16:32

stephaneeybert

Joined: 10/01/2005

Posts: 51

Re: how to get name of current instance from plugin?

I'm stuck too. I found out that CKEDITOR.config.currentInstance does not work if several instances on the same page.

In my case, I'd like to retrieve the current one, and retrieve it from a plugin popup window.

Wed, 07/13/2011 - 21:30

tristan

Joined: 13/07/2011

Posts: 1

Re: how to get name of current instance from plugin?

For whoever is interested, I solved this using the following method:

for(var id in CKEDITOR.instances) {
    CKEDITOR.instances[id].on('focus', function(e) {
        // Fill some global var here
        Some.GlobalVar = e.editor.name;
    });
}