Help! Is CKEditor customizable to this extent?

Hi, on our website we need a control like the image attached having few buttons. For instance the green button opens a div with a list of emoticons images and on click on an emoticon image , the emoticon gets added to the white area.
The blue button also opens a div having a list of text phrases (like Hello!,GoodDay! etc) , on clicking a text phrase , the phrase gets added to the white area.
Also the user can type into the white area.
These three features are all we want. The appearance of the control should be as in the attached screenshot . Please guide wether the FCKeditor is going to serve our purpose?

Thnks.

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Fri, 08/13/2010 - 16:47

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: Help! Is CKEditor customizable to this extent?

You could code this yourself pretty easily with JS or something...You'll spend more time modding CKEditor to fit that specification than you will writing your own. But I mean yes you could do that with CKEditor.

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 21:24

phena

Joined: 12/08/2010

Posts: 4

Re: Help! Is CKEditor customizable to this extent?

Yes I have aleady tried to do it myself using plain javascript, the functionalties of green and blue buttons (i.e adding emoticon images and adding predefined text phrases is quite simple) but the third functionality of enabling user to type in the white area is causing problems.

In my approach the white area is a div and for enabling user typing in white area I used the div property 'contenteditable=true'. This is causing problems as this div property is not supported in all the browsers specially in firefox older versions. Also I am having issues of cursor positioning even in IE.The cursor automatically changes its position during typing in the div.

I am stuck and not sure what to do.Please guide if you can tell the correct approach.
Thanks a lot.

Sat, 08/14/2010 - 08:56

axomat

Joined: 14/08/2010

Posts: 8

Re: Help! Is CKEditor customizable to this extent?

I would look at jquery or mootools who both have very simple inline edit capability to add the bit you are missing. A RTE is overkill for what you want.

Sat, 08/14/2010 - 12:51

phena

Joined: 12/08/2010

Posts: 4

Re: Help! Is CKEditor customizable to this extent?

Re:axomat

Any inline edit plugin will allow the user to type in the white area but then what about the emoticon images ??Usually Inline edit plugin uses common input elements like textarea and it is not possible to insert images in textarea .If you do know about any particular that can do my job then do let me know.
Thanks.