Text editors

Dear Bo,

I have the same problem and I tried your solution but no luck.  I recently installed language packs and I dumped them as you suggested. I also tried changing themes -no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Starr

Just to be clear, my issue is that the html editor is missing and I want a way for students and teachers to be able to write html in WYSIWYG mode. This is not about editing moodle html and php files, I use dreamweaver for that.

So I upgraded to 1.72+ and the missing html editor tool bar was still absent without leave. I tried to get TinyMCE working on 1.6 and 1.7 and managed to do neither. I found lots of people asking about how to enable TinyMCE but I have been unable to find any guidance. I would like to know how to do that - it seems like a good fix.

So I investigated external html editors and looked at 3: 1) vim, 2) nvu and 3) Xinha Here! I am now using Xinha Here! on my site for teachers and students to edit text areas in courses and forums. I think it is a great tool. Here's a good thread to read about it. Downside is it is only for firefox users.

Vim was not WYSIWYG. My issue is to simplify education building for non techies, so I left this alone.

NVU also seems good but I can not get it working on my site without a hack, which is again, not in line with making things easy for users. That being said, it it does work on www.moodle.org text areas without the hack and XInha Here! does not. How wierd is that?. So use of the external editor must be dependant upon your moodle version and/or site settings. I'd be interested to know if someone finds out the variables on that one.



Al

Dear all,

at my installation, the editor is not shown when using the German language pack. The "solution" was just to replace lang/de_utf8/editor.php with the English one.

Regards,

Lars Geldner

Your list there was a big help! I was going nuts. Noticed when reading your list that I hadn't checked the possibility that it was turned off in my profile. It was. I'm not sure exactly how that happened, because I hadn't done it right in connection with suddenly not assessing the HTML editor.
I know that I had tested turning the editor off after reading a tip about how to open a page containing a JavaScript for minor editing without destroying a functioning JS. But that was several weeks ago. A wild guess: Maybe I had imported some course with user info from the server where I had tried that and it changed my state on the one where I was working. Thanks anyhow!
This happened of course while adjusting, the night before, a workshop course where I hoped to have newbies see how easy it is to work in Moodle! The error was still there in the morning. So I quickly set up a new Moodle site (3 minutes with Fantastico) and imported the course (5 minutes more) and tested , then dried the sweat off my brow . In hindsight I see that it would probably have worked fine for them!

It happen to me that all editor buttons don't show up.
It happen when the connection speed is low.
The problem solve by press CTRL+F5
Let try
Good luck
Jeeradate K.

I found it in the database and removed it from there and it fixed the problem! Thanks. I'm thinking now it stopped working because my host must have (re)moved Aspell. But since they also upgraded PHP at the same time I was convinced it had something to do with that instead.