[opencms-dev] WYSIWYG editor also works with news?

[Uli Jaan]

RE: [opencms-dev] WYSIWYG editor also works with news?Thanks, Andre. 

Maybe my posting has been mistakable. 
I know that OpenCms yet uses the DHTML Active-X Control which only works with IE. Thats ok. Nevertheless it would be a great deal to have an Open Source WYSIWYG editor which works with different browsers and an different plattforms. 

What I meant is the following: editing my html sites with the WYSIWYG integrated in OpenCms works fine. But when I want to create or edit NEWS(Administration=>News) there is just a form like interface with different fields (headline-description-autho-link-content...). I use OpenCms 4.6.1 major, with NewsModule4 and the Website for OpenCms 4.4.0 downloadable on the OpenCms homepage.

On the First Open Source Content Management Conference in March 2002 there was a presentation of OpenCms where news entries were edited with the WYSIWIG. Is this feature not availible on the Open Source Version?

Uli

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  From: Fuechsel, Andre 
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  Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:15 AM
  Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] WYSIWYG editor also works with news?




  You are probably not using Internet Explorer. One of the major drawbacks of OpenCms is IMHO that the WYSIWYG feature is limited to Internet Explorer. It's an ActiveX-Control. Furthermore, to enter source code, OpenCms uses another ActiveX-Control. I can't see any value of this particular one since it does nothing more than a simple text area. Not even syntax highlighting. 

  I recently tried to replace the WYSIWYG-ActiveX with some scripting code which worked for me but still is limited to Internet Explorer. So this is no real solution. 

  The best solution would be to have a Java-based editor with WYSIWYG capability and HTML-source code editing with syntax highlighting. There is nothing like this in the Open Source, the closest I could find, is still Alpha. I tried to extend it but it is far from beeing mature. It is called EKit, you can try it here: http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php (site is currently down?)

  But if you want to download the source code to continue the development, don't use it from this site, it is not modular. I structured the whole thing into packages and generalized some features into abstract base classes. I plan to send this back to the original author but I didn't do yet. 

  If EKit would be finished it could easily be integrated into OpenCms and replace both Active-X controls. But the problem with this Java-based WYSIWYG editors is the strange behaviour and strange API of the HTMLDocument in Swing. If somebody has time and more experiences I can publish the source code for continuing development. 

  André 

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