disable certain toolbar items when in a table

hi,

a bit over a year ago, i hacked the fckeditor (v.2.5.1) to be used as dokuwiki's wysiwyg editor.
unfortunately, i had to hack directly into the core, because some things didn't seem possible else... this is why i am forced to stay at version 2.5.1.

this said, many many people use that editor these days, and there are just a few ever recurring requests from the users, which i am trying to fix those days.

i just hacked <th> and <td> support into it following the ideas in http://dev.fckeditor.net/attachment/ticket/822/822_2.patch, but there are two more things i'd love to be able to achieve:

(1) disable certain buttons and selects in the toolbar when editing a cell, such as <hr>, the table button itself, the format selection, and others, because the dokuwiki syntax does not allow such things

(2) have a button in the toolbar, which is enabled when editing a table cell, that would switch between <th> and <td>

before going back into the core and hack more dirty things, i'd like to find out, it there is some 'clean' way to achiefe these things...

thx in advance ...

[edit]
as requested, some more info on point 2: right now, i can switch between a table header cell <th> or a regula table data cell <td> over the context menu: cell->cell properties ... this calls then some code from the patch 822 mentioned earier... now: i'd like to have an additional button in the toolbar, which is only enabled when the cursor is being in the context of a table cell ... it should toggle between <th> and <td> and change color accordingly ...
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Tue, 01/13/2009 - 16:45

pointer

Joined: 11/12/2008

Posts: 38

Re: disable certain actions when in a table

What follows is a related nugget of information but not exactly what you wanted to know. I write this because it just occured to me when reading your post and maybe it will ehlp you someway..

You can add a context menu item to call a function (typically a plugin execute function) that only is available when some condition is met (it is the 'context' menu afterall). Here is some code taken from http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Customization/Plug-ins/Context

//attach a context menu item
FCK.ContextMenu.RegisterListener( {
        AddItems : function( menu, tag, tagName )
        {
         // under what circumstances do we display this option - the condition
         if ( tagName == 'P' ) {
               // when the option is displayed, show a separator the command
               menu.AddSeparator() ;
               // the command needs the registered command name, the title for the context menu, and the icon path
               menu.AddItem( 'InsertPath', FCKLang.InsertPath, oInsertPartItem.IconPath ) ;
         }
        }
   }
);

Also it is possible to detect where the cursor is and it is possible to disable a button so I presume it is possible to disable a button depending on where the cursor is.

I think you could explain item 2 in your post a little better so that you could be more easily helped.

Cheers!

Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:37

caillou

Joined: 13/01/2009

Posts: 3

Re: disable certain toolbar items when in a table

@pointer: thx for the effort, but this doesn't seem to be helping.

let me rephrase what i want to do:

(1) disable certain core toolbar buttons (e.g. <hr>) when the cursor is in the context of a table cell

(2) write a toolbar button plugin which is only active when the cursor is in the context of a able cell

i hope this makes it a bit clearer ...