[Plugin: Ultimate TinyMCE] May be a small bug

Hello,

Yes, I’ve noticed a small “bug” when switching as well. It only happens sometimes, and I feel it’s like chasing a ghost in the machine ??

Keep me informed if you keep having trouble, and if you are able to isolate the cause. Any suggestions would be most helpful.

I have found myself using the HTML code syntax highlighter button when needing to view the html source. So it kind of negates having to switch windows.

I will certainly look into the next page button and see what I can do ??

Once installed, I definitely do not need to switch to HTML view any more. One of the key reason I chose your plugin was the formated and color coded HTML view. It makes such a huge difference that it is impossible to go back to a “dum” html window

Glad you will consider the Next page ??

I was actually thinking that a better way than just implementing the next page would be to implement a “custom Insert” button you could create a Custom Insert button based on a drop down list (like styles), and we would have the option to create as many items in the list as we want.
Like that when people always need to insert the same piece of code, they could add them to the list, and be able to simply click on the dropdown list and select the line they want to insert.

This could also be used to insert shortcodes. If there is a way for you to detect all the shortcodes available in a WP install, it could even be worth having a dedicated “Insert Shortcode” drop down list button that you would automatically fill.

My susggestions for the time being ??

Hahahah…. we must be sipping the same coffee or something.

The shortcodes is exactly what I’m working on right now. The trouble is that a lot of shortcodes have attributes you can include within the shortcode. So, it’s going to be almost impossible to include all the options a shortcode might be capable of using.

This is why any plugin which uses a shortcode should include a button in the editor allowing for simple usage. It’s going to be very difficult finding a “universal” solution.

But….. I’m working on it ??

Cool ??
I suspected the issue would be to gather the options, this is also why the custom insert drop down list would also allow us to put in shortcodes with our preferred options.

Looking forward to it.

The bug is more serious than I thought. It looks like it happens systematically if I switch to HTML with the standard wordpress tab at the top right. As soon as I do that, I cannot go back to Visual, I need to deactivate the plug-in which is quite inconvenient.

Although I would rarely use that view because of your advanced editor, there are cases I may still use it, and some of the users I make site for will inadvertently do that from time to time. So if you can find a way to fix that it would definitely be nice.

I am on windows 7, IE9 and WP 3.31

Let me know if there are any specific tests I could do for you on this

Thank you very very much!! I certainly appreciate the help!

Is this happening on all pages, or only pages with existing content?

Try creating a brand new post/page, and before you add any content, see if you can switch between modes.

I don’t use IE9, but I just quickly experimented with IE8, and didn’t have any trouble.

I had no problem switching back and forth into an existing post or a new one, so I tried various scenarios until I found one that seems to reproduce the problem every time.

Click on Pages
Click edit on a page
Switch to the HTML view in the editor
Click on Posts, leave the page to go to posts
Click Edit on a post
Try to switch back to Visual it does not work and now you have to desactivate the plugin to make it work again

The funny thing is that if you do the same but going from Post to page it works fine. It is the transition from page to post that screws it up

Hope it will help nail the issue

Hmmm… even per your most wonderful instructions… I am still unable to replicate the problem. I’m running winXP, with FF 9.0.1, IE8, and Opera 11.60.

I have had this happen before… and it unexpectedly disappeared one day and has been gone ever since. Like I said… it’s like chasing a ghost in the machine.

I’ll have to pick up my laptop and see if it’s a win7 or IE9 thing. What about you? Do you have the issue if using another browser?

OK so I did what I should have done at the beginning. I opened the IE developer Window (F12 on IE8 and IE9), and checked the Script tab debugger and console.
When everything work, the only warnings I get in the console are:
SEC7115: :visited and :link styles can only differ by color. Some styles were not applied to :visited.
post.php?post=1309&action=edit
SEC7113: CSS was ignored due to mime type mismatch
editor-style-css.php?mce=1&twidth=706&fontsize=12&fontfamily=%22Times+New+Roman%22%2CTimes%2Cserif&titlefont=%22Comic+Sans+MS%22%2CArial%2Csans-serif&bg=%23FFFFF0&textcolor=%23333&hdgcolor=%23000&inbg=%23EDECD1&incolor=%23222&a=%231868AD&ahover=%23BB1100&table=default&list=disc&ver=345-20111127
HTML1115: X-UA-Compatible META tag (‘IE=7’) ignored because document mode is already finalized.
post.php?post=1309&action=edit

When I recreate the problem (as so far it is 100% reproducible on my system) I get the following errors

SCRIPT445: Object doesn’t support this action
wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=345-20111127, line 2 character 137623

SCRIPT445: Object doesn’t support this action
wp-tinymce.php?c=1&ver=345-20111127, line 2 character 137623
LOG: Failed to load: https://www.nicolatrwst.com/testnicola/wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/simple/editor_template.js

And in the debugger this part is highlighted as where the error is
H.theme=new q()

Other things I tried:
I tried on an XP Pro Sp3 +IE8 laptop and I had the same problem, so I thought may be it is more linked to my configuration. Here are the other plugins I use:
Akismet
Easy Theme and plugin Upgrades
Fast Secure Contact form
Google XML sitemaps
Post Type Switcher
Types
Ultimate Tiny MCE

But I tried deactivating All the plug-ins except Ultimate, and it still fails in the same scenario

I did installed before ultimate the Advanced tinymce and the CKEditor, but have uninstalled them.

I also tried uninstalling Ultimate and reinstalling, no change.

If this info still does not help, I can do any other test you need using the Developer window and the script debugger if you like.

One last thing I noticed that when reducing the width of the browser, your buttons do no reflow at the top of the editor, they stick out into the sidebar. You may want to change the CSS to get a fluid reflow ??

I forgot to add, I also tried on firefox on the laptop, and same problem,with slightly different behavior, when I try to switch back to Visual, I can click the tab and the tab becomes active, but the Tool bar and the content of the window is empty. On IE, clicking the Visual TAB simply does not work, the HTML tab stays active.

One more thing I forgot, I am using the Weaver II theme in case there is a conflict there
https://weavertheme.com/