Prompt Save Changes using isDirty with CF8 cftextarea

I'm using FCKeditor built into Coldfusion 8. My code is calling the editor like this:

<cftextarea  name="mycontent" id="mycontent" richtext="true" skin="silvernarrow" toolbar="Main">#pagecontent#</cftextarea>

I need to be able to detect whether the user has made changes in the editor and prompt them to save changes if navigating away from the page. I have looked at the documentation, including the JS API containing the isDirty method, but I can't figure out how to get the API to interact with the editor called this way. I CAN get the FCKeditor_OnComplete event to give me the editor instance name (see below), but I can't figure out how to proceed from here.

function FCKeditor_OnComplete(editorInstance)
{
var instancename = editorInstance.Name;
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance(instancename);
}

Has anyone done this using CF8?

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 22:02

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Prompt Save Changes using isDirty with CF8 cftextarea

This is redundant

function FCKeditor_OnComplete(editorInstance)
{
var instancename = editorInstance.Name;
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance(instancename);
}

editorInstance is already an instance of FCKeditor, you won't get anything extra by getting it again.

For the rest of the question, search about onbeforeunload

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 23:12

cfcodegirl2

Joined: 21/08/2008

Posts: 2

Re: Prompt Save Changes using isDirty with CF8 cftextarea

alfonsoml, I am actually doing some other things in the OnComplete function - this was just a snippet... I am familiar with onbeforeunload event. Have you used the FCKeditor embedded within CF8? My question is how to interact with the API when calling the editor in this manner.

Fri, 05/29/2009 - 03:49

calverte

Joined: 29/05/2009

Posts: 1

Re: Prompt Save Changes using isDirty with CF8 cftextarea

What was the solution where you able to come up with for this. I have a similar issue.

Thanks