How to change Default Automatic Text Color

I think that maybe the SpellWord can be an easy plugin in order to understand how to put just a new button.
Replace the Execute contents with alert( 'Hello world' ) ;
and once it works try to call this function FCK.ExecuteNamedCommand ( commandName, commandParameter )
with the proper parameters (don't know right now which ones for color change)

sorry, I forgot.

And of course, start from the Wiki http://wiki.fckeditor.net/Developer%27s ... n/Plug-ins

it doesn't have everything, but at least it's better than guessing.

Now according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/auth ... andids.asp and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/auth ... ecolor.asp
you should make this call:

FCK.ExecuteNamedCommand ( 'ForeColor', '#FF0000' ) ;

and that will set the color to red.

If it works you have an easy way to test changes and commands, and now you can make the same call listening to a onKeyDown event as I wrote in a previous post, but you have to change core files for this to work.

The automatic Text color comes from the EditorAreaCss file, so if several users are changing the same document it's not useful for you.

What you can try to do is make it easier for them to change the color, for example create a plugin that calls the command to change the color with their color instead of having to pick it up from the palette (one step less for them), and from there go ahead and try to create a key binding like Ctrl+key that automatically executes the color change function. (although currently there's no onKeyDown event you can see in a previous post from a few days ago how to do it, I've begin using just to catch the Esc key and it works)


Regards and good luck.