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I can confirm that now it works on my Moodle 1.9.8+ and works also with chrome, following the patch suggested in the other post on this forum.

Thanks.

I have tried this using a Moodle 1.98 install, but only see a text field without an editor.

We have:

-added the tinymcelib.php file to the lib directory.

-replaced the lib/editor/tinymce files with the WebCourseworks tinymce files

-added the require_once line to lib/settings.php

-added Chrome modifications to moodlelib.php

-established use_html_editor is set

Sergio, you said it just worked on your Moodle 1.98 install.  Can you or anyone else offer any suggestions?

Many thanks, Paolo

thanks for your reply, Sergio.  I was not sure what the junk was at the time of posting.  I've discovered since that the characters were &#010 (line feeds).  They are not in the HTML in the database, but were added everywhere when the editor was rendered.  it may be a PHP thing.  I honestly don't know.

Anyway, I resolved the issue by adding this line to the init section of tinymcejs.php:

remove_linebreaks : true,

This cleans the &#010 codes out of the HTML when it is rendered and when it saves. 

I do have another unusual issue.  On a clean install with a fresh database, the new editor appears.  But if I then connect the installation to a copy of my production database, the editor disappears and only displays a HTML box with no editor at all.  A previous poster seemed to be reporting a similar issue.  i cannot see anything in the config that would cause this.

Thank you again for your reply.   

Hi,

Both of the issues you've reported should now be fixed.  Inserting media now permits selection of any file and a bug has been fixed that prevented TinyMCE from showing up on certain screens.

You can download the latest version here: http://www.webcourseworks.com/sites/default/files/moodle-tinymce.zip.

Hello,

There is a version of the dragmath plugin that works with tinyMCE. I have now upgraded to Moodle 2.1 but I have used for nearly a year before that Moodle 1.9.x with tinyMCE (my own integration but it doesn't matter, it will also work with any other integration of tinyMCE in Moodle) and Dragmath (and asciimath !!, and geonext !!, and jsxgarph !! and all those wonderfull math plugins for tinyMCE) thanks to the fantastic work of Mauno Korpelainen and others. I think tinyMCE is heaven for math teachers compared to HTMLArea. See the mathematics tools forum to learn how to download and install those plugins.

I think the ability for students (and me of course) to more easily include  formulas, graphs and drawing in forum posts has completely changed how they used the forum to communicate on math subjects. I will never go back to an editor without these features.

Hi John,

I saw Jean-Michel's post and as we all know there are several kinds of integrations of tinymce for various versions of moodle so here a guide how to add dragmath to your integration without a significant porting work

Download files from http://korpelainen.net/dragmxx.zip and unzip/add them over your existing integration. Files of dragmath will go to lib/dragmath folder and plugin (originally created by Glen Davies) to lib/editor/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/

I had to modify only one of your files: lib/editor/tinymce/tinymcejs.php and there added 'dragmath' to

$theme_advanced_buttons = array(1 => array('bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strikethrough', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'justifyleft', 'justifycenter', 'justifyright', 'justifyfull', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'formatselect', 'fontselect', 'fontsizeselect', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'undo', 'redo','dragmath'),
                                2 => array('cut', 'copy', 'paste', 'pastetext', 'pasteword', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'search', 'replace', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'bullist', 'numlist', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'outdent', 'indent', 'blockquote', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'link', 'unlink', 'anchor', 'image', 'cleanup', 'help', 'code', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'insertdate', 'inserttime', 'preview', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'forecolor', 'backcolor'),
                                3 => array('tablecontrols', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'hr', 'removeformat', 'visualaid', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'sub', 'sup', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'charmap', 'moodlesmileys', 'media', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'ltr', 'rtl', MENU_SEPARATOR, 'fullscreen'));

and to plugins list

$tinymceplugins = array('safari',
                        'pagebreak',
                        'layer',
                        'table',
                        'moodlesmileys',
                        'insertdatetime',
                        'preview',
                        'media',
                        'searchreplace',
                        'print',
                        'contextmenu',
                        'paste',
                        'directionality',
                        'fullscreen',
                        'noneditable',
                        'visualchars',
                        'nonbreaking',
                        'xhtmlxtras',
                        'template',
                        'inlinepopups',
                        'dragmath');

after changes refresh your browser and dragmath should be visible with default settings given in plugin files.

HTH,

Mauno

Hi Sergio,

I'll have to take a look at that issue when I’m back in the office on Monday.

Hi Sergio,

I'm trying to duplicate the issue you're describing. If I understand correctly, you're adding a forum post or creating a resource and are getting a validation error (red square, red warning text) on the TinyMCE field unless you enter more than two words. Is that correct? What browser is this happening with? I've tried Chrome 12, FireFox 4, and IE9/IE8/IE7/IE6, and am not having any luck duplicating it.

Does the validation error always occur when you save the page regardless of how many words you've entered into the editor? We found and fixed a bug that would cause the editor to always produce a validation error. The page would save correctly if you tried to save a second time with or without adding content to the editor. You may want to try updating your /lib/editor/tinymce/tinymcejs.php file with the latest version to see if that fixes this problem: https://raw.github.com/WebCourseworks/moodle/dbf6950db875ef0744c4ce5fa4cb923e4dafaaa6/lib/editor/tinymce/tinymcejs.php.

thanks.

had already tried removing the line from setup.php but that resulted in htmlarea losing it's editing icons.

will try removing tinymcelib.php and downloading new tinymce directory as you suggest. fingers crossed that will solve the problem of missing icons!

Hi John,

thank's for the guidance, it works fine! Yuhhuuuu!

Cheers

Thanks, John, but when I made the change in tinymcejs.php as you stated, the default spellcheck didn't work (you had to right-click to spell check and the red lines would disappear as soon as you tried to make a correction).  Instead, I had to edit /lib/editor/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js as well. 

I changed:
if(!v.gecko_spellcheck){q.getBody().spellcheck=0}

To:
if(!v.gecko_spellcheck){q.getBody().spellcheck=1}

You'll have to do a text search for the first line of code since tiny_mce.js is minified.  Now, as soon as you make a spelling error, it underlines it like any ordinary textarea.

Of course, as you said, the context menu needs to be off, but really, what advantage does it have anyway?

Time is a factor for me too (so I probably should stop posting and get back to work ) but as I've started getting my clients' sites ready for the move to Moodle 2, a server-side spell check for this may not be necessary.  Tinymce works great in Moodle 2 with the spellchecker.