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Sat, 05/13/2006 - 08:39

jvoelcker

Joined: 11/09/2006

Posts: 7

Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via plugin

Hi,

How easy is it to add a drop down list to the toolbar via a plugin - more specifically a drop down list that is populated from a database (using ASP.Net)

I can handle the .Net stuff, but am unsure how to add the drop down list to the toolbar.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Julian

Sun, 05/14/2006 - 16:53

jvoelcker

Joined: 11/09/2006

Posts: 7

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

Hi Marcus,

THanks for that, although the link you give doesn't seem to work, but managed to run with this:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=737639

I'm ultimately wanting to generate the items in the drop down from the database, but instead of having it paste code into the editor I want to use it to launch a dialog and then pass the selected item id along with the selected text from the editor to the dialog.

The functionality of the dialog will then be determined by the selected item id from the drop down.

The sample you highlighted should give me a good starting point, many thanks for that.

Cheers,

Julian

Sat, 05/13/2006 - 19:18

bsides

Joined: 26/12/2006

Posts: 32

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

Take a look at this plugin example:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=737639

To customise it with items from the database you can use a javascript array that is generated server side and included into the parent document. Change the plugin script where the items are added to the combo to refer to the javascript array and load the items like this:

for (var i = 0; i < parent.arrSpecialLinks.length; i++)
this._Combo.AddItem(parent.arrComboItems[i][0], parent.arrComboItems[i][1]);

...and the array itself would be something like:
arrComboItems = new Array(
new Array('<a href="[subscriberupdate]" target="_blank">Item 1 text to insert</a>', 'Item 1')
, new Array('<a href="[memberreferral]" target="_blank">Item 2 text to insert</a>', 'Item 2')
);

I hope this helps.

Fri, 05/26/2006 - 08:27

xxpikeboo

Joined: 04/12/2006

Posts: 4

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

Hello,

I have been trying your plugin with the older version of FCKeditor and it worked great.
I have just switched to the new Beta 2.3 and I have troubles. In Firefox I have the following error and I have no idea how to get rid of it:

FCK.ToolbarSet.CurrentInstance.Commands.GetCommand(this.CommandName) has no properties

Can you help?
Thanks

Fri, 05/26/2006 - 11:50

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

somethig to look for..

I to do had this prob with my custom plugin..it was fixed after i applied an ID on the form field
note: id="txtName"

<select id="txtName" name="txtName" style="WIDTH: 100%">

and in the js above it... (note the getbyid)

function Ok()
{
if ( document.getElementById('txtName').value.length == 0 )
{
alert( oEditor.FCKLang.DlgClassifyErrorName ) ;
return false ;
}

//oEditor.FCK.InsertHtml( '<a name="' + GetE('txtName').value + '"><\/a>' ) ;
oEditor.FCK.InsertHtml( ''+ document.getElementById('txtName').value + '&nbsp&nbsp' ) ;
return true ;
}

Fri, 05/26/2006 - 11:54

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

Here is a full example of my plugin...in case it might not be clear

<?php

include ("../../../../../functions/db.php");
include ("../../../../../functions/variables.php");
include ("../../../../../functions/functions.php");

$class_result2 = mssql_query("SELECT * FROM class order by name"); 
?>

Fri, 05/26/2006 - 11:55

stripe-man

Joined: 30/11/2006

Posts: 143

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

(i had just typed in my comment) i meant to say MODIFIED by

Sat, 05/27/2006 - 08:27

bsides

Joined: 26/12/2006

Posts: 32

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

I had the same problem yesterday after upgrading to 2.3 Beta. It's pretty easy to fix.

After this line in the plugin:
this.Command=FCKCommands.GetCommand('mycombocommand');

add:
this.CommandName = 'mycombocommand';

I have updated the file attached to the Plugin (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p ... tid=737639)

Tue, 05/30/2006 - 05:49

xxpikeboo

Joined: 04/12/2006

Posts: 4

RE: Adding Drop Down List into toolbar via pl

Thank you very much!!