How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

I'm writing a plugin and I can get the contextual menu item to show up ok and it opens my plugin window but I can't find how to pass the selected tag over to my plugin.

I read that the ContextMenu.addItem function takes a 5th parameter for the tag but there are only 3 parameters in the addItem examples.

Also how would I read this parameter from my plugin?

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 14:32

andrew.r

Joined: 12/08/2008

Posts: 6

Re: How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/958

Wed, 08/13/2008 - 16:04

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

No, you are reading the ticket wrong. those five parameters are used when you want to add a context menu entry, but don't mix it with the menu listener added with AddItems that uses just three parameters.
Check any plugin that uses the context menu to see how it works.

Sun, 08/17/2008 - 14:03

andrew.r

Joined: 12/08/2008

Posts: 6

Re: How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

Thanks for the tip. I have used the FCK selection methods instead and that seems to work. So instead of creating a new dialog using:

FCKCommansd.RegisterCommand('name', new FCKDialogCommand(...

I now do:

var FCKmydialog = function(name)
{
this.Name = name;
}

FCKmydialog.prototype.Execute = function(){
...
selection = FCK.Selection.GetSelectedElement();

new_window = window.open('path_to_plugin',width, height etc);

}

FCKCommand.RegisterCommand('name', new FCKmydialog('popup'));

I should be able to pass the selected tag info through a PHP get request (although I might reach a length limit in IE) but I'm not sure how I would pass a result back from the popup to the FCKmydialog execute function so I can replace the selected element.

Sun, 08/17/2008 - 21:50

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

I guess that you are gonna end with lots of troubles.
As I said, look at other plugins or the built-in dialogs, don't make it harder than it is.

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 16:18

andrew.r

Joined: 12/08/2008

Posts: 6

Re: How do I pass the selected tag onto a contextual menu call?

I had a look at another plugin. You're right, I was making it more difficult than it needed to be. Although I had intended on executing the same plugin outside of the editor but I think I'll just do things separately because they won't do the same thing anyway.

I didn't realise I could access the FCK editor instance from the plugin popup.