XMLArea extension development

Monday 20 December 2004 7:23:19 am

just thought i'd start this thread to stop the contributions area getting clogged up.

the contribution is here:

http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/xmlarea
http://pubsvn.ez.no/community/trunk/extension/xmlarea

please leave bug reports + suggestions here though bear in mind i personally won't be doing anything much til the new year.

i hope eZ don't mind me using the forum in this way.

Tuesday 21 December 2004 1:14:35 am

I experience a funny problem with Firefox 1 on linux: the toolbar displayed at the top of the screen is fine when I turn on the editor, but if I go to a another tab and come back, it isn't there anymore. Anyone has the same problem ?

X+

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Tuesday 21 December 2004 4:45:46 am

Hi again,

Here are my first bug reports.

As someone mentioned earlier, the editor definitly looks better in Firefox. However, until the rest of the world understands that this is the better browser, I'm somewhat concerned about its appearance in IE.

On my test system, running phpdev locally on my Win XP, and using I.E 6 as the browser, the toolbar remains on the top of the page when scrolled in IE, as apposed to the top of the browser window as in Firefox. This, in combination with what I belive is an eZP CSS bug (or IE CSS bug, depending on how you look at it), causes the the toolbar and the text area to not appear on the same screen (se screenshot: http://www.netmaking.no/ezp/xmleara_screenshot.jpg).

If I remember correctly, there's a setting in HTMLArea which decides whether the toolbar should be placed on the top of the page, or in association with the textarea. If I'm correct, perhaps this setting could be added as an INI setting to the xmlarea.ini file?

Furthermore, I had some trouble initially, probably due to a quick-n-dirty setup of my test system. Since the ezp installation was not installed in the root web directory, and no rewrite rules were in effect, the javascript files where not found. This was due to the HTML code looking for the script files in /extension/and_so_on dir when it should have been looking in /ez/extension/and_so_on. This might be worth mentioning in the readme file.

Thanks again for contributing this great tool!

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Tuesday 21 December 2004 5:22:10 am

I noticed this, but if you simply highlight the text you want to become a link, then link code is added.

Regards,

Tim

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Tuesday 21 December 2004 6:12:56 am

Just one more, and I promise I'll stop (at least for today). :)

Anchors disappear when stored, and when toggling between edit modes.

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Wednesday 29 December 2004 4:42:27 am

I've tried to install this. I seem to have it half working!
I can activate the extension in ezpublish, but when a new item is created, the page doesn't look complete.
1st off, each box has no title, just a colon before it.
2nd there is no right side of the screen (translate/preview) etc.

Although I can use the editor, once I click on publish, I get a 'location did not validate' error and no document is created.

checkout the screen print at http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/images/screen.jpg

I guess this must be an install error but I've no idea what's gone wrong.
Can anyone shed some light on this please?

Sunday 02 January 2005 10:24:17 pm

Guys I have been trying to use this extension but no success.
1-ezPublish 3.5
2-uploaded to extensions directory + ezBrowserSniff
3-Activated in Extensions Area
4-Added the roll allow for all functions on xmlarea for Anonymous
5-Clear the cache

Am I missing anything? The link "turn on" apears at the bottom of xmltext fields, but when I click on it -> no action. The page will refresh and the link still says "turn on".
On debug mode I get two errors on line 45 and 47 of extension/xmlarea/ezxmltext/handlers/output/xmlareaxmloutput.php for the variable $aliasedType.

Any suggestions?

Sunday 02 January 2005 11:59:11 pm

Thanks Tobiass, that was it. You saved me a lot of time.

Tuesday 04 January 2005 1:22:25 am

Hi STEVO,

The following images seem to be missing from the toolbar in v. 0.11:

- Quote
- Factbox
- Insert Anchor
- Insert/Modify Object
- Toggle Edit mode

I do not have eZP installed in the root dir, so it might got something to do with that.

Sincerely,

Eirik Alfstad Johansen
http://www.netmaking.no/

Tuesday 04 January 2005 9:34:53 am

ack, thanks eirik.

i think it's all fixed now in 0.11b, i've actually tested it this time!