That the f*ck... with this editor?!

Hi,

First of all it would be nice if you could describe your problems more clearly.

Second, are you sure you haven't got to quick with criticism?

1. You have written "Why can't you apply submit event right away, put there some listener, then when instance is ready, just apply handler ".
   Editor enables all commands (command handlers) when it is created. Standard save command is one of them. As for user custom commands you have to do it yourself. There are two events you could use to attach your submit - instanceReady or pluginsLoaded.
   The problem I see with your code is that you don't attach any listener but simply add method that is executed when editor is ready.
   You should rather use this http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.event-method-on.
   Your code should probably look something like:

   editor.on('instanceReady',function(){
   editor.on('beforeCommandExec', function(event){
          if( event.data.name == 'save' )
                         //your save here
            });
   });
   });
   

   If this isn't what you meant please describe exactly what the problem is.
2. Textarea is auto updated when you post the form in traditional way - http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg-autoUpdateElement. When you want to submit content via AJAX then you should: update content of this textarea by calling ​editor.updateElement() get data directly from editor instance by ​editor.getData().
   Could you please tell us how were you updating textarea?
3. I assume you have used builder. Well http://ckeditor.com/builder has radio button below big red download button. You can select optimized or Source version - I assume you have selected source version and compressed one.
   Am I correct? Could you please explain how have you downloaded this uncompressed version?
   Please also note that compressed doesn’t mean one file. Dialogs code is kept in separate files. This is because we don’t load it at the start but only when user asks for dialog the first time. This lazy load for dialogs helps to save time when editor loads with page for the first time.

Regards,
Jakub Świderski

• Pull requests aren't disabled - developers successfully creates them - https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-dev/pulls
• Every bug should be reported on http://dev.ckeditor.com first.
• You were very impolite in your first post and now you ask if we'll work on this theoretical issue?

I didn't like user first post but I'm writing this so that others could know if they get similar problem.

1. Editor has its own save button on toolbar plus it attaches listener to parent form (the one CKEditor is in) so that it could know when to update texta area with editor contents. I one wishes to attach his own submit he should attach his custom save handler to toolbar button like this:

   editor.on('instanceReady',function(){
   editor.on('beforeCommandExec', function(event){
          if( event.data.name == 'save' )
                         //your save here
            });
   });
   });

   As for parent form - one should search for such form and attach to it his own submit handler as well. In his submit handler one should get editor data with editor.getData() method and make ajax request with parameters he wants.
   This should be done after editor is created (on instanceReady event). Some might say this is to late because use user might press enter or click submit till that time. Currently editor doesn't provide any hooks to attach custom submits as early as possible or to override editor classic submit. Simple workaround might be blocking Enter key and hiding submit button until custom submit isn't attached.
2. You can get uncompressed version from https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-dev or by downloading uncompressed code from builder - http://ckeditor.com/builder.  If you want to modify editor core code you should use githhub version and then build your own release: http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/guide/dev_build

If anyone sees any other workaround for issue one please write.