I'm a designer, (as opposed to any sort of a developer) tasked with making a custom mailer for a client. Here's what they need that I could use a basic roadmap for making: (I don't need specifics, just a push in the right direction for how to make it all work.)
to / from / content forms, with a button next to each that makes a side panel appear ( all three need to make the same panel appear, not three separate panels)
A side panel with entries based off a xml document. When you click an entry, a string is returned to wherever the cursor was prior to clicking the button.
I can handle all the theming and making it pretty, but those two pieces of the functionality I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around. I found the strInsert plugin which very basically adds the functionality I need, but how would I get the same idea but in a side panel and working for all three form elements? Any help would be much appreciated!
Probably need a developer but ...
Suspect you're trying to do something that a develop would be more suited to.
Anyway, The CKEditor editor object's insertText might be what you're looking for. When the button is clicked, it would ideally pass a reference to which editor instance it came from. Then the XML processing code would need to have an onclick event that takes the clicked word and pushes it back to the CKEditor instance using the instance reference passed out in the first place, and the insertText method.
Good luck.