[Building Sakai] FCKeditor Plugin to embed movies

[Matthew Jones]

A 'insert movie' plugin was added to fckeditor for the 2.7 release as part
of SAK-15523. [1] This depended on some work in KNL-341 [2] to actually
allow you to modify the which tags were allowed. A small part of the reason
for going to CK is that it also has a few more useful plugins (such after
the deadline and some for math) available than the old editor.

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15523
[2] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-341
<http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-341>
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:

>  Hi Nico,
>
> There was a discussion in the project planning meeting's about changing the
> editor for 2.8 because of its accessibility limitations (among other
> reasons). I believe the idea is to move on to CKeditor (
> http://ckeditor.com/). I am curious about your opinion about the new
> editors ability to embed multimedia. I am also curious about the timing of
> decisions around the 2.8 roadmap.
>
> Alan B.
>
> Alan Berg
> QA Director - The Sakai Foundation
>
> Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
> Group Education and Research Services
> Central Computer Services
> University of Amsterdam
>
> http://home.uva.nl/a.m.berg
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org on behalf of Coetzee, Nico
> Sent: Mon 28-6-2010 9:49
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Building Sakai] FCKeditor Plugin to embed movies
>
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> Hi
>
> We had a need at UNISA to embed movies, (especially apple .m4v and .mov
> format)  into learning content such as Samigo and Melete. The only way to do
> that was to edit the content in FCKeditor by clicking the "source" button,
> and then adding the embed script. eg.
>
> <embed type="video/quicktime" src="
> http://podcasts.unisa.ac.za/library/attachments/5F20BE90-6AAD-4C8D-ABBB-3F1984B8F769/0FAE91D4-E8C6-4902-B77F-3AAA240A9684.m4v"
> autosize="false" autostart="true" showcontrols="true"
> showpositioncontrols="true" showtracker="true" showaudiocontrols="true"
> showgotobar="true" showstatusbar="true" pluginspace="
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" codebase="
> http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="650"
> height="500"></embed>
>
> Well the above works but is difficult to tell or even show users with
> little or no html experience to do this, and they easily typed it
> incorrectly.
>
> I did some searching in google and found a plugin for FCKeditor called
> embed movies. It adds new functionality to the fckeditor toolbar through an
> additional button which then generates the above statement for the user at
> the required point in the content. You can embed the following movie
> formats:  mpg, mpeg, avi, wmv, mov, asf, m4v.
>
> For those interested, please find attached a zip file called
> EmbedMovies.zip.
> Unzip this file in the
> sakai-src/reference/library/src/webapp/editor/FCKeditor/editor/plugins
> directory (it Should create a Directory called EmbedMovies)
> Secondly edit the
> sakai-src/reference/library/src/webapp/editor/FCKeditor/config.js :
>         . add the following (I added it at line 51) :
>                 . FCKConfig.Plugins.Add( 'EmbedMovies','en') ;
>         . then add the EmbedMovies to the toolbars you want to I added it
> to the Default, large, largecompressed toolbars (line 99, 112, 124) eg:
>                 . FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["Default"] = [
>         ['Source','DocProps','Templates'],
>
> ['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteWord','SelectAll','RemoveFormat','SpellCheck'],
>         ['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace'],
>
> ['Bold','Italic','Underline','StrikeThrough','Subscript','Superscript'],
>         ['OrderedList','UnorderedList','Outdent','Indent'],
>
> ['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyFull','TextColor','BGColor'],
>         ['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
>
> ['Image','Flash','Table','Rule','Smiley','SpecialChar','EmbedMovies'],['Style'],
>         ['FontFormat','FontName','FontSize'],
>         ['About']
>
>
> Rebuild and deploy reference and your done.
>
> If the community finds this useful we can possibly request that it be
> included in future releases of Sakai?
>
>
>
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