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Cel Editor Button Management

cellarius

cellarius

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Exploring xenForo to find out whether I could do what I need with it, one of the first things I tried to find out was whether I could add additional buttons to the editor. Taking some inspiration from ragtek and this thread, I found the buttons to be hardcoded and found no way different addon coders could add buttons each. If there is, I'll don a tinfoil hat and blame my inexperience with xF so far :D

What does it do?

This simple (but quite powerfull) button manager gets around this problem by taking the button configuration for the two xF editor toolbars into two templates. This solution offers the following advantages:
  • existing buttons can easily be added, removed, or moved about (yes, I am aware that removing buttons will not prevent people from simply typing bbcode; it can still be useful if you trigger non-bbcode actions by button)
  • custom buttons can easily be added; addon developers could simply point to this addon
  • the full flexibility of xenForos template conditionals can be used on each single buttons or button groups, making it easy to show buttons to certain usergroups only for example (see Shadabs how-to)
Minor disadvantage:

  • Since the templates overwrite the xF button configuration, new buttons will have to be added manually to the templates
How does it work?

The configuration templates are CelEditorButtons1 and CelEditorButtons2. The buttons are listed comma seperated and each in a new line in the templates for better overview. See the attached screenshots for an example.
xFbuttons.webpxFbuttons_result.webp
Explanation: Bold and italic buttons have changed position, strikethrough has been removed, and a custom button ("celphotopopup") has been added. The alignment buttons have been wrapped by a condition, as has the image bbcode. They are hidden for the current users usergroup.

Installation

Upload the library directory into your xF root directory. Install the included .xml file as an addon. Done.
 

Attachments

For Reference:


The buttons currently present in xF in toolbars 1 and 2 are:
Code: 
removeformat,
|,
fontselect,
fontsizeselect,
forecolor,
xenforo_smilies,
|,
undo,
redo

Code: 
bold,
italic,
underline,
strikethrough,
|,
justifyleft,
justifycenter,
justifyright,
|,
bullist,
numlist,
outdent,
indent,
|,
link,
unlink,
image,
xenforo_media,
|,
xenforo_code,
xenforo_custom_bbcode
 
[offtopic]
It would be a**kicking add-on if the button names would be replaced with the button icons which could be placed via drag & drop:D
[/offtopic]
 
If i use the File in your Post i become this message
"Bitte gib eine gültige Callback-Methode ein."
 
Do you have uploaded the library directory in the .zip-file into your xF-root directory? It will add the folder CelEditorButtons to your library folder, containing Listener.php.
 
Anyway, it would be really easy for Kier and Mike to add the editor configuration that is now in the js file to templates (or one template), just like this addon does. I'd sure like to see this become obsolete (hint, hint). Hm, should probably make a suggestion out of this.
 
After installing this addon I tried to add spoiler button (in vain), but than my QuickReply visual editor could not load toolbars and it displays only raw text. I've uninstalled the mod, but quick reply is still broken. How to repair it??!
 
vkams said:
After installing this addon and tried to add spoiler button (in vain), but my QuickReply visual editor cannot load toolbars and displays only raw text. I've uninstalled the mod, but quick reply is still broken. How to repair it??!
Click to expand...
refresh the browser ?
 
Oh, all return to normal work.

I do ask developers to improve editor and give us simple way for addition custom buttons for bb-codes (images and actions)!
 
Installed this on 1.1 B5, but all toolbars are gone from the editor, just an empty text box displays. Still looking to see what might be wrong, but so far, nada.
 
Any update on this Trekkan as I was about to install it but am using 1.1b5 and saw your post so have come to a screaming halt on the install.
 
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