[wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the selected text?

[Ryan Fitzer]

MaxPower has a great article/downloadable plugin that takes care of this:
http://www.maxpower.ca/how-to-add-buttons-to-the-wordpress-editor-for-your-plugin-theme/2006/10/28/

Ryan

On 3/22/07, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> You can do it with a custom plugin for TinyMCE. The key functions would be
> mceInsertContent and {instance}.selection.getSelectedText(). My best
> advice
> would be to download the full TinyMCE package and take a look at the
> advlink
> plugin, since this basically does the same thing.
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Brian Groce
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:44 PM
> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the
> > selected text?
> >
> > Callum,
> >
> > Any luck with this?  I've been wondering the same thing for TinyMCE on
> > WP 2.1.x and WPMU 1.1.1 using a plugin and not editing the core code.
> >
> > My needs are to highlight text in the editor, click on my custom button
> > and then that would wrap the selected text with some code.
> >
> > Something like...
> >
> > <div class='myClass'>The selected text from TinyMCE</div>
> >
> > ...this is easy to do in the "code" editor, but TinyMCE has yet to work
> > for me.
> >
> > If anyone knows how to go about this, I'd be extremely grateful.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> > Callum Macdonald said the following on 3/19/2007 5:46 PM:
> > > I've looked at that, but it's launched as a javascript prompt, not a
> > > new HTML window. So it exists with all the variables already set.
> > What
> > > I'm doing is trying to send a command back to the editor from an
> > > external window. So I can't figure a way to do it relating to the
> > > existing insert link functions.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > > Callum.
> > >
> > > Computer Guru wrote:
> > >> Can't you refer to the original link insertion dialog for TinyMCE?
> > >>
> > >> Computer Guru
> > >> NeoSmart Technologies
> > >> http://neosmart.net/blog/
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> > >>> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum Macdonald
> > >>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:11 AM
> > >>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> > >>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Plugin to insert a link, how do I handle the
> > >>> selected text?
> > >>>
> > >>> G'day,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm working on a plugin that adds a couple of buttons to the
> > editors
> > >>> (using Photopress as a base) and then pops up a list of links to
> > insert
> > >>> into the post. However, I can't figure out how to detect if text is
> > >>> currently selected in the editor, and if so, wrap the link around
> > that
> > >>> text. My current code is:
> > >>> function pluginInsertLink(linkcode) {
> > >>> var winder = window.opener ? window.opener :
> > window.dialogArguments;
> > >>>     if ( !winder ) {
> > >>>         winder = top;
> > >>>     }
> > >>>     tinyMCE = winder.tinyMCE;
> > >>>     if ( typeof tinyMCE != "undefined" &&
> > >>> tinyMCE.getInstanceById("content") ) {
> > >>>         tinyMCE.selectedInstance.getWin().focus();
> > >>> alert(focusElm);
> > >>>         tinyMCE.execCommand("mceInsertContent", false, linkcode);
> > >>>     } else {
> > >>>         edCanvas = window.opener.document.post.content;
> > >>>         winder.edInsertContent(edCanvas, linkcode);
> > >>>     }
> > >>> }
> > >>>
> > >>> Does anyone know if the current text is mapped to a javascript
> > >>> variable?
> > >>> Do I need to pass it to the popup when the popup is opened?
> > >>>
> > >>> Or does anyone know of another plugin which does something similar?
> > I'm
> > >>> happy to poke about in that code and figure something out.
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers,
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Callum.
> > >
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Ryan Fitzer
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