The new SPAW Editor testet for 4.5.2.x with all browsers !

[hello]

The SPAW editor is ready to run now and can used with mambo 4.5.2 now.
The installation is very simple which you have to do in the backend.

The editor works fine with all browsers. Testet mit ie, firefox, netscape und opera.

There you’ll find a online demo: http://www.solmetra.com/spaw/demo/demo.php


Pedro Gonçalves finished the WYSIWYG editor. Therefore all editors complete and ready to use with mambo.
A german translation is included, but 33 diverent languages are aveable too. We say thank-you to Simon Schmitz for the german translation.

I gratitude to the beta testers, particularly to Marco Kobek, who tested the path problems with me in detail.
The advantage from the SPAW editor is it’s easy structure and the simplicity to create content, using and correcting it.
Folders and subfolders can created easyly and the moderators get a clear structure for the picture folders.


The installation on a MSAS is done fast too without any problems.

The developement team:

Developed: Alan Mendelevich, alan@solmetra.lt
Developed for Mambo: Pedro Gonçalves
German translation: Simon Schmitz, schmitz@unitedfuor.com
Corrections: Matthias Höschele, matthias.hoeschele@gmx.net
Copyright: Solmetra (c)2003 All rights reserved.

The Link to the page:

http://www.globodigital.net/Products/Spaw_Editor/20/1/

Download:

http://www.globodigital.net/Products/Files/1/

Install in MAMBOTS !


Thanks Alan Mendelevich
Thanks Pedro Gonçalves


Best regards,

Helmut Tönnies

Aka: hello

Features included in this release:

• Basic text editor features (cut, copy, paste, undo, redo);
• Basic formatting features (bold, italic, underline, fore color, background color, fonts, etc.);
• Management of HTML objects (images, links, tables, etc.);
• Applying CSS classes to text and objects;
• Advanced image manipulation - image library sub-control (upload, preview and select images);
• Advanced table manipulation - create, modify attributes of table and cells, insert/delete rows and columns, merge/split cells (including unique vertical merging feature!!!);
• Support for themes (skins) - 2 ready to use themes included;
• Fully customizable toolbars - 5 presets included;
• Multilanguage support - English, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Dutch, Italian, French, Hebrew, Turkish, Chinese, Czech, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, Finish, Estonian, Japanese, Galego, Norwegian, Slovak, Catalan, Portuguese, Slovenian, Greek and Thai language files included;
• Support for multiple fully independent instances of control on the same page (each instance can have different theme, toolbar, language, style classes, etc.);
• HTML code cleanup (useful for copy/pasting content from MS Word);
• Optional design time borders on borderless tables;
• Active toolbar reflecting applicable features and current style;
• Demo script showcasing the use of the control;
• Basic documentation.

Mambo features included:

• mosImage support;
• mosPageBreak support;
• The default template CSS file can used when editing;
• Images folders from stories and images folder;
• Set the theme and type in the administration;

Mambo features to do:

• More Mambo buttons;
• Set editor options for different user types;

Here the spaw_control.config.php


global $mosConfig_live_site, $mosConfig_absolute_path, $spaw_root, $spaw_dir;

//require_once( "../configuration.php" );

// directory where spaw files are located
$spaw_dir = $mosConfig_live_site.'/mambots/editors/spaw/';

// base url for images
$spaw_base_url = $mosConfig_live_site.'/';

[swordhert]

is there demo with image upload?

[Yerg]

Excellent look and feel ... very slick

BUT nothing works in FF 1.02

The page when it loads shows nothing in the text area even though there is content there. None of the buttons work either.

In IE 6 no problems

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URL Link

This needs some work the latest Tiny Editor does this real well by being able to link to all existing articles.

When I create a link in a sentence then save the item the paragraph above disappears. This is in IE.

Look like it's not quite there yet ... another one nearly across the line

Here the spaw_control.config.php

global $mosConfig_live_site, $mosConfig_absolute_path, $spaw_root, $spaw_dir;

//require_once( "../configuration.php" );

// directory where spaw files are located
$spaw_dir = $mosConfig_live_site.'/mambots/editors/spaw/';

// base url for images
$spaw_base_url = $mosConfig_live_site.'/';

Suggest you provide some more comments about usage of the bit above for the average user. It could be confusing for some

[PercyKing]

Using SPAW and very happy, best word cleaner of the lot.
I originally had the blank text box problem, which was solved by making sure the url included the www. (same as all other editors)
Looking forward to the TO DO's being finalised, but all in all, my users really like this editor.
My vote is 4.5 stars

[hello]

BUT nothing works in FF 1.02

.......no problem with Firefox 1.02 !
I have testet with Firefox 1.02 german with WIN XP PRO and MSAS and Linux Suse 9.2

[macman]

I does not work in Firefox 1.02

MacOsX 10.3.8.

[PercyKing]

Don't know about macs, my users are all in same office environment and all use IE on PCs, I have tested on Firefox 1.01 from PC and works OK

[gsbe]

Originally Posted by swordhert

is there demo with image upload?

Agreed, this would be nice to test out on your demo. Could you set a cronjob to clear a specified upload folder ever hour?

This new editor seems to be working well in your demo - congrats! Some of the icons (especially text font color vs. text background color) are not intuitive, so tool tips would be a nice option to help the user. Nice work

[ArunK]

Why can't something like this in the default installation? Without installing any components/modules? TinyMCE is craptacular. Its better than nothing I guess, but it could be improved a lot more. The enhanced editor for vB would be better than TinyMCE, htmlArea would be too. Hopefully in a future version, they will listen to some of the user suggestions.

[gsbe]

I have some thoughts that I would gladly discuss as to why the editors that you mentioned are not included with Mambo. I will hold these in light your other comment which I definitely take issue with.

Originally Posted by ArunK

Hopefully in a future version, they will listen to some of the user suggestions.

The developers of Mambo are extremely focused on user experience AND user feedback. I have been really surprised and encouraged at their interest level and responsiveness to their users. Please spend more time in the community and/or reading these forums before making such assertions.

[ArunK]

Hey, all I'm saying is that it could be improved. I'm not saying that Mambo developers aren't doing anything about it (user suggestions). I have been using Mambo for a long time, just because I'm not as active in the forums here, doesn't mean that I don't appreciate the work they have done.

[TWDesignStudios]

Couple things to note that I found wrong:

In FF1.02 Once you apply changes you can't deleted anything (text or images) on the page until you type something new. For some reason the delete key gets disabled.

Somestimes when I open a page it doesnt pull in the information thats there.

In one section we have a into item with read more. Once you switch to the read more page we have the intro disabled so it doesnt repeat. Using SPAW and clicking hide intro kills it on both sections instead of just the "read more" page.

Also when inserting an image I noticed all my directories aren't showing up. It's stoping short 1 sub directory level.

[hello]

http://www.globodigital.net/Products/Spaw_Editor/20/1/

[ford]

I've installed it in my Mambo 4.5.2.1 setup.

Firefox 1.0.4 : I can't get it to work at all!!
IE6 : seems to work, although not tested thoroughly.

Ford

[snapple]

thank u so much only took me 5 days to find this and it works perfect.. this should be in the next build .. it blows away mosce and tiny.. this editor ROCKS dude........... GREAT work ....

[swordhert]

is it open source editor?

[KaitsuN6]

I have Mambo 4.5.2.1 and I'm using mostly FF1.04.

I do get spaw working in FF, but no tooltips are shown. Also there are a lot of functions missing in FF (Gecko), see screenshot FF as upper IE6 as lower.

This editor is really beautiful in IE, but it is very much cropped down in FF/Mozilla.

Any change of getting these missing funtions into the FF version?

Screenshot:


Cheers

[hello]

Here the link for SPAW 4.5.1X und 4.5.2X

http://www.globodigital.net/Products/Files/1/

Greetings hello

[versus7]

spaw is very fast but i have a problem
when i insert a image i got on the frontend an empty image.
when i show the path in properties come something like this
....mambots/editors/spaw/empty.html
tested in 2 sites and in both the same problem

[mjjones]

Thanks for this maaaaaaaaaaaarvelloussssssss goodie. I'm a newbie to MOS and this will the the 1st mambot I'll install. Wish me luck...
Tried your online demo and here are my remarks:

***** Typing can be real fast. Bravo. Usually I lose characters on the way (like in this forum) or they get inverted.

***** Numbered lists work beautifully and readapt fine even on several levels. Can't say that of most editors I've used.

***** Personalized lists of styles will be a godsend if I ever have the skill of making them work... Not easy for a newbie...

*** html preview is most useful and unobtrusive. Problem is that it doesn't highlight the selection one made in Design mode. Hence it's not easy to locate the area one wants to look at/edit. If the document is long, it could take several minutes.

** Absence of alt tags/captions over the buttons (at least in Firefox) doesn't make it easy to work out the use of some buttons. Specially for the pix and tables which look pretty similar. A visitor wouldn't like it...

*** takes absolute ages to load the colour picker and the pix folder (even when it containted only 3 pix as in your demo). Except for greys, color picker doesn't seem to have all the palest colours, i.e. real light yellow, green, etc.

** Never managed to add a row in a table (except by copying and pasting the html code). Found no way to vertical align content of cells (except by changing the code) but I guess one could use a stylesheet to overcome this limitation.

Question: code seems to introduce <br> instead of <p> but this could be a stupid newbie interrogation, <p> being not allowed in database fields???

Altogether these are (easily resolved?) details compared to alltogether great quality of this tool. Thanks again.