WYSIWYG Post Editor v1.0

WYSIWYG Post Editor

Description:
Lets you have a Microsoft Word/FrontPage-like editing box when you reply to threads, create new threads, and/or edit posts.

Features:
- Supports BBCode
- HTML is converted to BBCode
- Gives user a visual layout of what he/she is typing
- Supports dynamic bolding/underlining/etc.
- Has cool-looking Office XP-styled buttons.:bunny:
- Allows users to choose wether to use this editor, or vB's default one.
- Makes BBCodes obsolete
- And many more...:bunny:

Installation Time:
About 20-30 minutes.

Credits:
Toolbar, Original Coding and Design: eiSecure (http://www.eisecure.com)
Debugging & HTML to BBCode Conversion: Superman53142 (http://www.aoaforums.com)
User Options for WYSIWYG: Velocd (http://www.diffusion4.com)

NOTE:UNLIKE PREVIOUS VERSIONS, THIS ONE DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT YOUR FORUM HAS HTML ENABLED IN POSTS!

You can view a demo of the hack in action here: http://forums.eisecure.com

If you encounter any problems or if anything doesn't work right, or if the instructions aren't correct, then please post them here.

If you want to limit this hack to people who are using IE5.5 or above, click here for instructions.

Thanks,
Alex

[eiSecure]

The basic functionality for that is already implemented, but because it does not limit images to only ones on the internet, we did not enable it, since vB doesn't currently support multiple attachments.

[memobug]

Who's talking about attachments? I am talking about images!

Have you ever used G-TForum's WYSIWYG editor? You can resize and align images left right or center, click on 'em and drag em around in a post Click link and make them an anchor for a link or whatever.


I should hope if a WYSIWIG feature is going to be incorporated in VB3 that it would work at least as well. I like vB and use vB but its editor is prehistoric and frankly this one is marginal if it doesn't support images well. Let's leave the question of attachments aside, shall we?

Regards,

Matt

[eiSecure]

I would think as well that vB3 will have that support. However, if you're looking for that in this hack, you're at the wrong place, and for now, you're using the wrong forum.

If you want that editor, use that forum. If not, then live with the current one in vB2 for another 2 months until vB3 beta comes out.

This hack is just a small improvement over the existing reply box to make it easier for the user to do basic formatting. It is not designed to be a WYSIWYG CMS front-end.

If that is what you want, then go and buy a commercial ActiveX that supports it. Otherwise, live with the current feature set or like I said, switch to that forum.

We are all very busy people, and it cannot be expected that we constantly update our hacks and cram in every single feature that is requested. I for one have a life outside of a computer, and it is my intention to pursue it at the expense of becoming a drone and live lifelessly debugging and improving a hack that does not generate any income or compensation for me.

Regards,

Alex

[Schorsch]

any ideas about that problem ?

I found an error:

the smilies I see on the left side are working without problems, BUT when I click on "Get More" and the smilie popup appears, the smilies in this popup aren't working any more!!

How can I fix that ??

Thank You very much

Schorsch

[Alex]

This hack requires to alter table user for one more field. Will this cause trouble when updating vbulletin at a later time?

[eiSecure]

When upgrading, it should not cause any DB problems.

[Birdie501]

i have some problems and dont find any solution??

If i make a newreply and type e.g. test
the message will be shown as:

<PRE>test</PRE>

what is that PRE???

Help please!

[zman]

Hi, great hack. Please figure out a way to include the aspell spell checker into this as that is a major loss to the forum when you already have it installed and try to move people to this. Again thanks for a great hack

[Erwin]

Clark Kent, how goes the JS work in trying to keep the buttons down after clicking?

[Velocd]

Originally posted by Birdie501
i have some problems and dont find any solution??

If i make a newreply and type e.g. test
the message will be shown as:

<PRE>test</PRE>

what is that PRE???

Help please!

<pre> stands for preformatted text. It's like you can use invisible keys within the <pre></pre> tags and they will show up.

I know that was alittle vague, but here is an example. The {} stands for a key pressed (such as the space bar):

So inputting this:

<pre>{space}{space}{space}hello{space}hello{return}</pre>

Will output in the post as this:

   hello hello
hello

I hope I'm clear ^^;

And that picture of the image WYSIWYG looked pretty cool. But I'm sure VB3 will be far more advanced than just that