JCE Utilities Mambot 1.1.5 has been released and is available now in the downloads section.
This release sees the mambot move from using mootools as its javascript effects library to jQuery, partly because of unavoidable conflicts between mootools and prototype/scriptaculous (which is used by many other Joomla mambots/modules). Unfortunately this means that the popups will no longer be draggable (they may get this functionality back in the future), but a number of new configuration options have been added to the mambot, including the ability to have a 'semi-transparent window overlay' like in the original Lightbox.
 'Operation Aborted' issues in IE6/IE7 should also be fixed. Furthermore, both the jQuery script and the JCE Utilties script are compressed for quicker loading (the original source files are included.
Ryan.
A few security patches are available for JCE 1.0.4 and JCE 1.1.0 beta 2 Admin Components in the downloads section.
JCE Admin Component 1.0.5 is available for download for new users (for use with JCE Editor Mambot 1.0.4 only)
Existing JCE 1.0.4 users can download and apply the patched files.
Copy the contents of the zip - admin.jce.php and jce.php over the exsting ones in administrator/components/cim_jce and components/com_jce respectively.
Existing JCE 1.1.0 beta 2 users will need to download and apply the patch available.
Copy the contents of the zip - admin.jce.php and jce.php over the exsting ones in administrator/components/cim_jce and components/com_jce respectively.
An updated version of the JCE Admin Component 1.1.0 beta 2
has been uploaded for new users.
Ryan.
Hi,
JCE 1.1.0 beta 2 has been released, and due to a stupid mistake on my part, re-released with some critical fixes that affect the Editor Mambot and plugins. If you had already downloaded these packages any time before 04/12/2006, 10:00 AM (GMT+2), please download and install them again.
There are a number of important changes in beta 2, the most important being the use of a set of custom ajax functions (which also use the mootools ajax class), instead of the xajax library. This was necessary because of frontend conflicts with other modules and mambots that uses xajax which could not be resolved.
All plugins that use ajax have therefore been updated (all the Manager plugins and the AdvLink plugins), and the Caption plugin has had a minor update.
There is also a new DocLink plugin, that provides the ability to browse through DocMan documents using the familiar Manager interface, and insert links to these documents in a way similar to the File Manager plugin and the original DocLink extension. Unlike the origianl DocLink plugin, these inserted links are now editable.
In order to prevent users trying to install older 1.0.x plugins, which are incompatible with the new 1.1.0 system, the plugin installer requires the XML file to have a 1.1.0 version number. All new plugins have been updated with this, only the Simpleboard plugin is not, and will be soon.
Update: One thing I forgot to mention in the initial posting of this article is that 'Guests' are now supported as an access level.
Important:
After installing the new Admin Component and Editor Mambot, I recommend clearing your browser cache, and once the editor has loaded for the first time, doing a hard refresh (CTRL +F5). Javascript seems to have a horrible way of sticking to the browser cache, nad this will ensure that the newest installed files are loaded and not older ones which although may have the same name, contain vastly different contents, which would prevent many things from not working properly.
I hope we can move JCE 1.1.0 out of beta soon, so please let me know (via the forum) of any problems or suggestions.
Thanks
Ryan.
Okay, so I've finally got round to releasing a new version of JCE, even if it is a beta version.
So why has it taken so long? Well, version 1.1.0 is almost a complete rewrite of the JCE Editor Mambot and all the plugins and includes the latest version of the TinyMCE editor, 2.0.8.
This release is particularly significant as it sperates the plugins into two different types, standard plugins available to all, along with the editor mambot and admin component, and 'Subscription Edition' plugins, available to those of you who have purchased or will purchase a JCE site subscription.
There have been far too many changes to write up as a changelog as one would usually do, so I will go through each part of the JCE system one by one:
The Editor Mambot
As mentioned above, the editor mambot includes the latest version of TinyMCE, which itself includes a number of new plugins, such as a Layer plugin, for creating div layers in your content items, an XHTML Xtras plugin, for adding elements such as cite, abbr, del and ins, and a specific command for inserting non-breaking space characters. The editor itself includes numerous bug fixes (you can check out the specifics here ) and a new gzip compressor is included to speed up editor loading times.
I have also added a number of new features to the editor itself, such as the ability to toggle the editor on or off (the state is remembered with a cookie), the default state can be set in the Editor configuration.
I have also attempted to overcome the dreaded 'www / live site' problem that has plagued mosCE and JCE for so long, by including all javascript files with a relative url.
The mambot now includes an api that centralizes all file functions and plugin setups, which not only makes it easier for me to create and maintain plugins, but will make it easier for uses to create their own, possibly with full 'Manager' functionality.
Help System
JCE 1.1.0 includes a new online help system, that uses articles on this site to provide Help topics for the main plugins and Admin sections. Thse articles will be able to be tranlsated using JoomFish, providing a full multi-lingual help system for JCE.
This is still in development, and most help articles are not yet available.
Plugins
The plugins are now seperated into 2 types, Standard plugins, available to all, and 'Subscription Edition' plugins for JCE site members.
Standard Plugins
- Image Manager - This is similar in functionality to the older Image Manager Lite plugin, and includes all the new functionality of all the Manager plugins. This plugin is installed with the Editor Mambot.
- Advanced Link - Similar to the old Advanced Link, but without the Search option. Features the new Ajax powered Joomla! links dropdown list. This plugin is installed with the Editor Mambot.
- File Manager - Identical in functionality to the old File Manager but with the new Manager interface.
- Media Manager - an all new Media Manager plugin, based on Moxiecode's own Media plugin, with support for flash, quicktime, real media, windows media and shockwave. This plugin can operate in 'script mode' which generates a javascript function in place of the media code, which is converted on page load to the inline html, overcoming the IE object issue (requires either the JCE Utilities Mambot 1.1.3 or the JCE Embed Mambot - available soon.).
Subscription Edition Plugins
- Image Manager SE - includes all the features of the old Image Manager plus new popup methods using JCE Utilties, Lightbox or Thickbox, and the older JCE 1.0.x popup method, and tooltips (JCE Utitlies mambot 1.1.3 required).
- Advanced Link SE - includes all the features of the old Advanced Link plugin, plus the ability to store and recall 'Favourite' links. Includes the ability to create popups and tooltips for use with the JCE Utitlies Mambot 1.1.3.
- Caption Plugin - the return of an old favourite. Produces boxed captions around images using divs, which can be styled in various ways.
Quick note: Both Image Managers produce XHTML compliant code, eliminating the deprecated border, align, vspace and hspace attributes.
Whats missing?
Well, the Media Manager SE, which will add support for FLV files, and hopefully MP3's too, using included flash players, is still in development.
The Template Manager plugin will be available soon, as will the Iframe plugin.
Some notes and warnings:
- JCE 1.1.0 is not compatible with Joomla 1.5! Don't even try using them together.I will begin working on JCE 1.2.0 soon, which will be specifically designed for Joomla 1.5.
- JCE 1.1.0 has been tested on IE 6 and IE7, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, and Opera 9. Opera doesn't work too well, but I will continute to try and improve this.
- JCE 1.1.0 works best with IE 7 or Firefox 2, and users should note that these browser version are going to become minimum requirements for future version of JCE, follwoing th release of JCE 1.1.0 Stable.
- It is a good idea to clear your browser cache and do a CTRL+F5 refresh before using the editor, to clear out old JCE javascript.
A note to translators
It sould be a good idea to begin translating JCE's language files, but do not commit to any packages until we are out of the beta period. There have been numerous changes to JCE's languages files, and older ones are not compatible with the new JCE.
I can't think of anything more to say right now. Download JCE and let me knwo how it goes.
Thanks
Ryan.
Hi,
The JCE Utilities Mambot has been updated. The major change was to move from using JQuery to mootools. There are also a few new things added, and it looks and works a little better too (a lot like Lightbox).
USAGE:
The script will automatically convert old JCE and mosCE popups. The page must fully load before any popups become active.
To create a new popup, create a link on
an image, using the full sized popup image for the links href
attribute. Give the link a class of 'jcebox'. The link's title will be used as the popup image's caption.
To create a 'gallery', give each image link the same rel attribute, eg: rel="gallery".
Can also be usd to create popups to content items. Give the link a class of 'jcebox' and append a width and height value to the end of the content link ie: &bw=400&bh=400
CREDITS:
Based on...
Lightbox v2.02 - Lokesh Dhakar - http://www.huddletogether.com
Thickbox 2.0 - Cody Lindley - http://www.codeylindley.com
Litebox v1.0 - http://doknowevil.net/litebox
The onload script is by Dean Edwards/Matthias Miller/John Resig
Everything else by me.
Uses the awesome mootools library - http://mootools.net
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ only because Lightbox is and is a condition of the above licence, otherwise it would be under an MIT-style license.
Should work with all modern browsers - FF 1.5, IE 6 & 7, Opera 9, Safari
This script requires you template to have a valid DTD, and may fail in IE if your template includes an XML declaration. Don't ask me why, something to do with IE and quirksmode.
You can get it here .
Here is an example:
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Oh, I almost forget. The popups are Draggable too!
Ryan.
UPDATE: I have added a tutorial to try and explain things a little better.
ANOTHER UPADTE: The mambot has been updated to 1.1.1
Changelog:
- Added parameters to control Opacity FX speed and Resize FX speed.
- Images are resized if larger than the screen size.
- Fixed missing border on content popup.
YET ANOTHER UPDATE: The mambot has been updated to 1.1.2
Changelog:
- Added PNG fix for IE, including options to enable/disable and to specify an identifier for files to be affected.
- Fixed resize issue fir images in IE when in quirks mode.
- Fixed resize issue for content links in Opera.