Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki

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2: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 1)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 03/27/08 09:53 PM
Hmm, 0.6 is pretty old (the oldest version in the openacs cvs is 0.14), so i assume, you mean 0.60.* from the oacs-5-3 branch.

The best way to specify the size of the xinha widget is to set the size (height, width) in CSS dimensions. You can change the height by altering the line

   {f.text "= richtext,editor=xinha"}
to e.g.
   {f.text "= richtext,editor=xinha,height=500px"}

The applicable attributes are displayed in the class diagram
http://alice.wu-wien.ac.at:8000/xotcl/show-object?object=%3a%3axowiki%3a%3aFormField%3a%3arichtext%3a%3axinha

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3: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 2)
Posted by Steve Manning on 03/27/08 11:42 PM
Thanks Gustaf.

I did indeed mean 0.50 to 0.60 (that's what you get for firing off a quick message on the way into a meeting :o)

Thats exactly what I was looking for but I didn't have much luck trying to trace it through the docs from the WikiForm class.

- Steve

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4: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 2)
Posted by Steve Manning on 03/28/08 12:26 AM
Gustaf

FYI I'm using 0.60.3 of XOWiki. As suggested I've changed line 23 in xowiki-form-procs.tcl to read:

{f.text "= richtext,editor=xinha,height=700px"}

But it doesn't seem to have an effect. If I change the default height value for the FormField::richtext::xinha class in form-field-procs.tcl (line 593) to read:

{height 700px}

Then I get the desired effect. It looks as if the height attribute isn't being passed through. Am I missing something?

- Steve

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5: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 4)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 03/28/08 08:47 AM
Maybe there was a bug in xowiki 0.60.3; before my posting, i was testing the line above with xowiki 0.83 on firefox 2.0.0.12 and safari 3.1, working in both cases correctly.

The change in form-field-procs alters the default height of all xinha textareas in xowiki. Was this your intention?

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6: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 4)
Posted by Gustaf Neumann on 03/28/08 11:28 AM
steve, i can confirm that this was a bug in 0.60.3. The bug fix was kind of tricky, since 0.60.3 is about 20 version bumps from head. However, the new fixed version in the oacs-5-3 branch is 0.60.4.
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7: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 6)
Posted by Steve Manning on 03/28/08 01:17 PM
Thanks Gustaf. I'll try it out.
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8: Re: Changing the textarea size in xowiki (response to 6)
Posted by Steve Manning on 03/28/08 02:15 PM
That sorted it - thank you.

- Steve