drue

The editor.php is hardcoded at a width of 500. For some fixed width templates (JavaBeans included) this will cause problems with the full editor not showing on the frontpage (fck_editor) or visual blight to the template. I have some ideas on how to hack editor and my template to hide the righthand column when editting, however, I'm not sure this is the route I want to go. I don't normally like hacking the core code and that's the only way I can see this happening (I take that back... I could hack each editor I want to use also).

Before I go ahead with that, anybody got any better ideas (ones that don't require modification of the core code) on how to make the right hand column disappear when editting?

Mambo

Still a core mod but.

Maybe hack to open up edit as a new browser page would be neat without the rest of the sides top etc.

Maybe this as an option in admin would be good.

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davidgal

How about using htmlarea2 which has a full screen pop-up window for large editing area??
I have installed htmlarea2 on 4.5.1 stable and it is working like a dream both in front and back ends.

Mambo

Not much core mod in that then!

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drue

will take another look at htmlarea2 then.... thanks. I'm not picky, I just want something that is easy for my users and powerful enough for me.

Sundance

Hi drue,

there is another way of doing it which is fairly easy and quick to realize. The solution bases on the fact that your wrapper editor page has a unique ID within the Mambo database. Check the properties of your menu entry for your editor. You will see something like the following in the non-editable area of the properties:

Url: index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=46

In this case the ID is 46. Now all you've got to do is open your template index.php page and search for the <td> tag of your right column. Around that tag you put this PHP code:

Code:

<?PHP if ( !($option=="com_wrapper" && $Itemid="46") ) { ?>
<td CLASS="right">
   <table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ALIGN="center" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0">
      <tr>
         <td><?php mosLoadModules ( 'right' ); ?></td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</td>
<?PHP } ?>

Now the right column is only displayed if it is not your wrapped editor being called.

It works pretty well for me using TeamCal Pro within Mambo.

Best regards,
Sundance

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