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Custom Button Questions

Last post 04-11-2008, 1:15 PM by Aaron Edwards. 8 replies.


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04-08-2008, 1:26 PM 38877

Aaron Edwards
Joined on 01-26-2006
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Custom Button Questions

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Hi,

I'm trying to create an 'Insert Silverlight Video' button and form, similar to 'Insert Flash' and 'Insert Media'.

When the user clicks the button, a gallery of WMV files is brought up, as well as a couple of radio buttons and a dropdown list. When the user selects one of the WMV files, a bunch of JavaScripts are then inserted into the HTML content, similar to the following...

var player = new StartPlayer_0('FileName', 'AutoStart', 'SkinToUse');

</script>

</div>

Obviously, in order to accomodate this, we need to set EnableStripScriptTags to false. I also need to to be able to paste this content into the appropriate place in the editor, i.e. where the cursor was when the gallery was opened. Not sure how to do that. I know there's some JavaScript involved.

Also, what is the mechanism that CuteEditor uses to communicate between forms (in my case, the main editor form and the gallery that comes up when the user clicks the 'Insert Silverlight' button)?

Thanks!

04-08-2008, 3:54 PM 38880 in reply to 38877

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

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Please check the following example:

Add a Cross Browser Modal Dialog Box to Cute Editor

How to create a custom button(client side) which displays a dialog?( C# | VB )

This example demonstrates how easy it can be to add your own client side buttons to the CuteEditor by creating a Cross Browser Modal Dialog Box.

The source code of this example can be found in the download package.

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04-09-2008, 2:57 PM 38969 in reply to 38880

Aaron Edwards
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Re: Custom Button Questions

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Thanks Adam,

That helped a lot. Now I need to be able to paste back in to the main editor, but keep the <script> tags in place. I'm using the code from the example:

function button_click()

{

var editor=Window_GetDialogArguments(window);

var ta=document.getElementById("ta");

editor.PasteHTML(ta.value);

}

But PasteHTML is stripping out the script tags. Unfortunately, a Silverlight video object looks like the following:

</div>

Is there another method I can use? Thanks.

Aaron

04-09-2008, 8:08 PM 38974 in reply to 38969

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
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Re: Custom Button Questions

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Aaron,

Please set the following property to false.

Editor.EnableStripScriptTags Property

Specifies whether to remove inject script before write the string into the db. When this property is set to true (the default) Cute Editor strips all script elements and script contents from the html.

04-10-2008, 12:31 PM 39052 in reply to 38974

Aaron Edwards
Joined on 01-26-2006
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Hi Adam,

Yes, I had done that. My problem is that scripts are being stripped not by the editor, but by the PasteHTML function itself.

Here's a quick test you can run to see what I mean:

Open up HowTo/AddDialogs/vb/create_a_custom_dialog.aspx.
Modify the Editor by adding "EnableStripScriptTags=false"
Run it.
Click the "Insert my Custom Text" button.
Type in the following: Test 123 <script type='text/javascript'></script> Test 456
Click "Insert It"
What you'll get in the Editor is "Test 123 Test 456"

If the PasteHTML fucntion is in fact stripping out the script tags, perhaps there is an overload of the function which tells it not to do that. Or maybe a configuration setting? Or perhaps there is a quick workaround using some custom JavaScript?

Thanks so much for your help!

Aaron

04-10-2008, 1:16 PM 39055 in reply to 39052

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
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Aaron,

Can you try the following example and get back to me?

http://richtextbox.com/test/pasteHTML-EnableStripScriptTags.aspx

04-10-2008, 3:03 PM 39058 in reply to 39055

Aaron Edwards
Joined on 01-26-2006
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It works.

I'm such a fool. It had already been working on my system, I was just so dazed from staring at the code for so long I didn't see it (didn't switch to HTML view). Argh!

Anyway, thanks for your help Adam.

Aaron

04-10-2008, 3:38 PM 39059 in reply to 39058

Aaron Edwards
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No, wait. I spoke too soon. It still isn't working for me.

Testing it with just...

...was a detour. It works just fine with that, but what I really need to be able to paste is something like this:

</div>

But it keeps eating the script tags.

Notice this is a script with inline Javascript, not just a reference to an external script. But even stripping those commands out I can't get it to work. Very strange. Perhaps it's because it's inside a div?

The problem occurs using the link you sent me as well as my own local version.

Thanks for your help.

Aaron

04-11-2008, 1:15 PM 39109 in reply to 39059

Aaron Edwards
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Any ideas on this yet?

I tried to find the definition of PasteHTML in the implementation files, to see if maybe I could disable JavaScript destruction, but it's too scary. Not a world I want to live in if I can avoid it.

I was also thinking I could cheat, and use and use an Ajax call to put the script back in if, from the popup, I can identify the current cursor position in the Editor.

Any advice is welcome. Thanks.

Aaron