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Text editor with macro function

by Wim Eling - Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 5:12 PM

Hi there,

We are using the wiki module with the normal html editor. But we do want to have something like a word macro function so it can make our job easy. My question is, is there an open source text editor that includes the macro function and is this easy to implement in Moodle ?

Thanks in advance,

Wim Eling

Re: Text editor with macro function

by Michael Penney - Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 11:32 PM

Hmm, in 1.5, the editor has find and replace buttons, I would think other macros could be built on this example (probably easier than integrating a new text editor thoughtful

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What would you have your macros do?

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Wim Eling - Thursday, April 14, 2005, 2:34 PM

I was planning on using the macro to automate the copying of content in the wiki. So when students push the macro all of the wiki content is selected and all the student has to do is paste it in a word document. This way the sstudents don't have to copy paste in the wiki themselves.

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Wim Eling - Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 7:13 PM

Ok i have got moodle 1.5 installed where can i find the text editor and is it easy to develop something for it ?

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Jan Dierckx - Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 7:33 PM

It is in lib/editor/
I don't know how difficult it is to develop for it. If I understand correctly, you want students to be able to press a button which automatically copies the wiki text to Word, they can edit the text in Word, afterwards press another button and the text is entered in the wiki again. Is that right?
All this is done clientside, so it would have to be done in javascript. I doubt javascript will let you control applications oustide of the browser. (It would pose serious security threats)
Have you looked at Mozex ? This extension for Firefox makes it possible to use an external editor whenever a textarea shows up. (It doesn't work with HTMLArea so you should disable that in your user profile)
I haven't tried connecting openoffice/word to it, but it worked with vim. I am not sure what happens with all the formatting openoffice applies.

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Wim Eling - Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2:42 PM

The button has to make sure al wiki text is selected and then copy it to the clipboard. The students have to paste it into word from the clipboard. Then the job of the button is done. And i found the editor in MoOdle and it's a big bag of javascript indeed

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Wim Eling - Friday, April 22, 2005, 2:58 PM

Ok i am bussy with making the new button i put it in htmlarea. But i cant find out where exactly the function of the different buttons is made. I see this piece of code:

copywiki: [ "copy wiki content", "ed_wiki.gif", false, function(e) {e.execCommand("copywiki");}

the red is the piece were something should happen i think but where is in de the script can someone help ?

Thanx

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Re: Text editor with macro function

by Janne Mikkonen - Friday, April 22, 2005, 5:13 PM

The function (e) {e.execCommand("copywiki");} actually calls the function HTMLArea.prototype.execCommand that defines what function is called to finish the task.

So you need to add that copywiki into HTMLArea.prototype.execCommand switch block somewhere:
case "copywiki": this._copyWiki(); break;

Then you'll need to create a function:
HTMLArea.prototype._copyWiki = function () {
// your code in here.
}

- Janne -

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