No way to set minHeight of richtext when instantiating Editor

[Martin Scheffler]

it is not possible to set minHeight when instantiating the editor with dojo.widget.fromScript. It should look something like this: editorArgs = { items: ["textGroup", "linkGroup"], minHeight:"300px"}; this.editor = dojo.widget.fromScript("Editor", editorArgs, dojo.byId("the_editor"));

This is needed because when the editor has just a single line of height, it is hard to drag&drop html to it.

[Martin Scheffler]

This is a hack to set the height without an api function.

function() {

h=80; this._richText.minHeight=h+"px"; this._richText.editNode.style.height=h+"px"; if(this._richText.iframe) {

this._richText._lastHeight=h; this._richText.iframe.height =h+"px";

}

}.bind(this.editor)

the bind function is from the prototype library, I am not fluent in dojo but I am sure there is an equivalent. Bind() sets the context in that the function will be executed.

I had to start this function with a window.setTimeout of 1000, because the iframe is not existent onload.

[alex]

Dojo does not pollute the Function object prototype and uses dojo.lang.hitch() instead. Additionally, the Editor component calls functions which we can interecept and/or listen to using dojo.event.connect(). The (much safer) Dojo way to write this would be:

var doOnCreate = dojo.lang.hitch(this.editor, function(){
   var h=80;
   this._richText.minHeight=h+"px";
   this._richText.editNode.style.height=h+"px";
   if(this._richText.iframe) {
     this._richText._lastHeight=h;
     this._richText.iframe.height =h+"px";
   }
});

// only call this method when the editor is available
dojo.event.connect(this.editor, "fillInTemplate", "doOnCreate");

[Dustin Machi]

Looks like a solution was provided to me on how to accomplish this.

[(none)]

Milestone 0.3release deleted