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cut'n'paste text and images into content?
vee:
Hello all
Just been having a look through WB. I like it - but like many cms's it seems to suffer from the need to upload all images into a media folder before they can be used in content and referenced through the content editor.
I've also been trying Fastpublish (still quite buggy) but that uses a rich text editor and allows one to cut'n'paste text+images from elsewhere, in particular other html pages, directly into the content area. The images are automatically stored in a "rich" folder and are renamed with a prefix so as to avoid name conflicts. This makes creating page content a real breeze.
Have I missed something with WB or is this also possible? If not, is anyone thinking of integrating such a rich text editor with cut'n'paste functionality.
Cheers
Vee
pcwacht:
Fastpublish uses Rich Editor (http://richarea.com/demo/) wich isn't released under gpl or simular license, in fact you need to pay for using it.
This will never make it to WB
John
vee:
Hello John
Thanks for the reply. Yes, agreed on the gpl point but there are several other such editors available that are gpl. The real thing I was getting at is the way Fastpublish takes images in the clipboard and automatically transfers them into a "rich" folder within Fastpublish, together with some kind of automatic rename to avoid conflicts, when they are pasted into the editor.
I downloaded the Xinha module for WB and this seems like a step in the right direction - except that it doesn't work properly!
The step in the right direction is that one can paste text+images from the clipboard and they appear in the editor (unlike in the default html editor, of course, where one just gets image marker boxes). The problem is that Xinha seems only to make a link to the source of the images. So if they are copied to clipboard from My Docs and then pasted, Xinha makes a link to the My Docs location. Similarly if you copy from elsewhere on the web - you just get a link in the code to that place on the web. Of course, the pics won't then show if the link is broken or the image source is changed.
What's needed is for the copied images to be automatically placed/uploaded into a folder within WB, say within the media folder, and then automatically linked as usual to the wb media folder location by the ricg-text editor. That way wb content is dead-easy for the end user to make and the content is also made part of the wb website rather than being made up of a bunch of links to outside sources. Therefore, no worries about images not showing when outside links are broken.
I've studied many cms's and my goal is always to find something that is easy for the end user to work with. I find WB to be clear and very accessible for the end user but adding content is still a tedious job for most since they have to plan ahead what images to upload first and in addition make sure there are no name conflicts when uploading them.
I'm not a programmer so I don't know how difficult this is to achieve but surely it can't be too difficult to have the clipboard images copied into WB at the same time as they are pasted into the editor and have the rich-text editors produce the link direct to the new renamed images in the WB "rich" media folder?
As for Xinha not working properly, it seemed to install ok and I got one save out of it - then the whole of WB started to behave as if I'd selected "none" for the wysiwyg choice in settings - ie no editor was available for adding content. (Tried fckeditor too - can't remember what the problem was right now but it didn't work properly either.) For the moment I'm back to the default editor and everything works fine, though no image pasting of course.
I think integrating a cut'n'paste capability as described would be a very worthwhile addition and I'd be happy to help out with ideas and testing if any programmers are interested.
Many thanks
Vee
pcwacht:
Agreed on the capability of cope and paste, but for that you are in the wrong forum I think.
WB uses standard HTMLArea wich has died.
XINHA based on HTMLArea, FCKEditor, TinyMCE and other gpl editors are made as a plugin for WB. WB does not code on them, just make them pluggable for WB
Only tiny things (ahum tiny) programmed by the community are things lilke integrating css, pointing the wysiwyg to the right mediapool etc
Extra features as your described copy-paste is best if they are programmed by the wysiwyg builders/community.
John
PS Troubles with switching wysiwygs, make sure your local cache is empty!!
vee:
Hi John
Thanks for that. Only just joined the forum - where is the right place to go to talk with the wysiwyg programmers? Community discussions/modules maybe?
Thanks
Vee
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