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Sun, 05/27/2007 - 00:25

peteboyd

Joined: 07/12/2005

Posts: 8

Default Paste Function

Hello all. I have been using FCKeditor for a year now with great success. I have one question, can we set a default for the pasting function.

I know that there is a force as plain text variable:

FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText = true ;

However that causes you not to be able to use the icons Paste From Word or any other paste controls. Basically you are really forced to only paste as plain text.

Ideally, I would like the user to paste as plain text (so that we can style the pages) as default. but if needed I want the user to be able to paste from MS Word with all of their styling and/or links.

Basically there should be a variable that says FCKConfig.PasteDefault = plaintext ;
FCKConfig.PasteDefault = html ;
FCKConfig.PasteDefault = msword ;
or something like that

Any ideas are helpful. Thanks.

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 12:07

didgiman

Joined: 26/01/2007

Posts: 130

RE: Default Paste Function

Maybe you can make the value for FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText a variable, that you can change depending on the user.
Just a thought...

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 12:17

peteboyd

Joined: 07/12/2005

Posts: 8

RE: Default Paste Function

Yeah I thought about that too. Although that is not really solving the problem. That would still force each that user to paste EVERYTHING as plain text. What if that user suddenly had a 5 page document of links, bold, italics that they wanted to insert. They would have to totally reformat (or paste into an html program and then into the editor).

I guess another solution would simply be that FORCE AS PLAIN TEXT should have an override feature (i.e. the MS Word button should still work.

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 13:36

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Default Paste Function

I also think that some kind of option like this would be a good idea, but I still haven't made up my mind about how it's better, because in fact I don't like very much the way it works the option to paste as plain text as it removes even tables, and I would rather have pasted the basic html without any styles or decoration.

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 12:25

didgiman

Joined: 26/01/2007

Posts: 130

RE: Default Paste Function

Ok then, maybe you can convince the user to click a link whenever he wants to paste from MS Word, and if the user clicks that link, let that refresh your page with forceAsPlainText set to false.

There might be a better way, but I don't have the map ;o)

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 13:49

peteboyd

Joined: 07/12/2005

Posts: 8

RE: Default Paste Function

Well Paste as Plain text rocks because it cleans all code and makes it look pretty on the page. You would not believe how many times I have to go back in and redo some edits because of font size, font color, or font style issues.

However, at times I would just like to be able to paste with formatting. No biggie, just improved functionality.

Thu, 12/08/2005 - 04:29

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Default Paste Function

Yes I fully agree with you. Paste as plain text without styles, fonts, or whatever it's great to keep the site style uniform and even easier to change. And it would be good to have the option to eventually be able to paste something keeping the formatting.

And I was saying that the thing that I miss from paste as plain text it's that it just paste everything as plain text, but I would like to keep some tags like tables still there, but without any formatting tag just the basic tags like <p>, <br>, <a> and <table>(+childs <tr>...)

Sun, 12/11/2005 - 10:24

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Default Paste Function

I didn't thought about this, but maybe it's as easy as follows: (didn't tested it, this is pseudo-code)

Create a plugin, nothing fancy, just a button "paste with format", and in its execute Method, store the current FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText value, set it to false, execute the default paste and restore back the previous value:

MyPaste.Execute = function ()
{

Sun, 12/11/2005 - 10:27

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Default Paste Function

Let's try again:

I didn't thought about this, but maybe it's as easy as follows: (didn't tested it, this is pseudo-code)

Create a plugin, nothing fancy, just a button "paste with format", and in its execute Method, store the current FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText value, set it to false, execute the default paste and restore back the previous value:

MyPaste.Execute = function ()
{
var previous=FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText;
FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText=false;
FCK.Commands("PASTE").Execute();
FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText=previous;
}

(don't remember right now if that's the correct way to call a command)

When I'm able to test it I'll post back the finished code.

Mon, 12/12/2005 - 16:52

#10

bhannemann

Joined: 12/12/2005

Posts: 2

RE: Default Paste Function

I am also very interested in this type of functionality. I am trying to make the Paste From Word into the default paste mode such that the control will always attempt to clean it up.

Tue, 12/13/2005 - 07:28

#11

bhannemann

Joined: 12/12/2005

Posts: 2

RE: Default Paste Function

Actually, I have found where the code is that does all of the 'cleaning'. It is located in the function 'CleanWord' in the file 'editor/dialog/fck_paste.html'. I am going to adapt that code to run elsewhere, and you may be able to do the same for your application.

Sun, 05/27/2007 - 00:25

#12

arunpulikkan

Joined: 11/05/2007

Posts: 12

RE: Default Paste Function

Hi,

Im also looking to make the paste from word as default.I'm a beginner in FCKEditor ,can you please brief how to solve this problem???

Thanks

Wed, 07/25/2007 - 09:34

#13

wgh

Joined: 24/07/2007

Posts: 5

Re: Default Paste Function

UP!

I'm interested to make the paste from word as default, too. Can you give information!?

WGH...