use stylesheet to edit text like dreamweaver!

I wrote some plugins (style, font color, font size, bold, italic...), its function expected like dreamweaver to use style button. it is headachy thing!
my codes is not very good, and exists some bugs.
who has already written those plugins?
can you discuss it with me?

Fri, 11/25/2005 - 07:23

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

RE: use stylesheet to edit text like dreamwea

Sorry, but I can't understand what you mean. I don't use Dreamweaver so I only know about somethings that it can do, but I don't know it well enough to know that "style button"

You say that you have wrote several plugins, but those functions are already available in FCKeditor, what's the difference?

Sat, 11/26/2005 - 09:59

kindchen

Joined: 20/12/2005

Posts: 4

RE: use stylesheet to edit text like dreamwea

sorry, my bad english!
I mean, for example, in FCKeditor, when i select some words to change their color, current ways is to add "font" tag, it is not create "stylesheet". my expected ways is to add stylesheet like Dreamweaver.
e.g.
<style type="text/css">
.style1 {color: #0066FF}
.style2 {
font-size: 18px;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
}
</style>
So in the list of style button, you can use the style which was created just now. The style list will be created dynamically. There is no need for you to reselect color.
So when you change color, font, bold, size and so on for words in many places, i think you don't want to clcik every button to change them every time.

Sat, 11/26/2005 - 11:32

xenden

Joined: 08/04/2006

Posts: 321

RE: use stylesheet to edit text like dreamwea

Doing it in-line would be pretty difficult. Not impossible, but it would be tough, I think. And add a good bit of overhead, as you'd have to parse all the time to tell if one had been added, etc..

What might be an easier solution: Add a "style edit" dialog (plugin) that is linked to a database, and upon saving, have the editor instance reload the XML for the styles (which would also have to come from the database) so they are available in the editor.

That way, you know exactly when to recheck available styles, and you don't have to delve too deep into the core code. Theoretically.
It's an experiment I've been meaning to try, but of course haven't got the chance.

I'll probably be taking a stab at it within the next month or two... If I'm successful I'll post the plugin in the tracker!

Sat, 11/26/2005 - 15:34

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

RE: use stylesheet to edit text like dreamwea

As xenden has said I don't think that this would be easy. Interesting and useful of course, but hard to do and if the editor is used to edit only a part of the document then some special server coding should be done to save back those styles that have been created.

As an intermediate step you could create several styles for the Styles combo, but I'm still fighting to make it work as I want 100% of the time the way that I want (don't creating invalid markup and don't crashing anything).