Hmmm .... in that case, I may just go with it. Our dev environments are CF9, but production is CF8.
It's on an admin page, so I guess I'll just see what happens and make sure it works. Thanks! Scott On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Azadi Saryev <[email protected]>wrote: > > it was actually me who was misunderstanding things! > i have misread your question and assumed that you were loading an > external page which contained richtext textarea into a dialog... > not that i see what exactly you are doing, i have run some tests, and, > as you said, in cf9 the textarea does not get the new value... > cf8 does not have this problem and works correctly, though... > > i will play with it some more and post here. > > Azadi > > On 15/06/2010 23:49, Scott Brady wrote: > > Ok, I'm still having issues following this. > > > > Your suggestion is to run the function when the page loads (ajaxonload). > > But, the problem occurs long after the page loads (I can wait 5 minutes > > after the page is done loading to try it, and I still get the issue). > And, > > putting in an onload handler (either with CF's ajaxonload or using jQuery > to > > append the handler) has it run when the page has loaded -- before I've > > clicked the "edit" button that does the ajax request to get the form's > > values. > > > > Maybe I'm not explaining it well enough. > > > > The dialog that contains the form is part of the initial page load (i.e., > > it's a hidden div that, upon the document being loaded, is converted into > a > > jquery dialog. Why would that affect when the ckeditor instance is ready > or > > not? Even if I wait until the dialog is displayed before populating the > > fields, it throws the error, so it's not just because the dialog is > hidden > > when I try to populate the field. > > > > Alternatively, maybe I don't understand what causes the ckeditor to be > > "ready". > > > > Scott > > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Azadi Saryev <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> the <textarea> element exists on your page, but its ckeditor (richtext) > >> 'incarnation' does not. > >> thus calling ColdFusion.RichText.setValue() at this stage does not > >> produce any results - because it uses ckeditor-specific javascript > >> functions to populate the ckeditor instance of the textarea (which is > >> actually an ifame, iirc) with content, not the actual <textarea> > element. > >> > >> Azadi > >> > >> On 15/06/2010 22:14, Scott Brady wrote: > >>> But the text area exists on the page already. The empty cftextarea > would > >> be > >>> available by the time the page loads (and the div isn't made a "dialog" > >>> until after the page loads). The whole form exists when the page > loads. > >>> The ajax is just to get data for populating the form field values > >>> themselves. > >>> > >>> So, I don't think that's the issue, unless I'm misunderstanding you. > >>> > >>> Scott > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Azadi Saryev <[email protected] > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 15/06/2010 10:25, Scott Brady wrote: > >>>>> The success function then populates the form (including the text > area) > >>>> i assume you are talking about $.ajax() [or similar] jquery success > >>>> callback? > >>>> that one will fire before the cf's richtext area is fully ready, thus > >>>> your error. > >>>> what you can do, is move the success callback into a separate named > >>>> function (if you have it defined in-line in success: property of > >>>> $.ajax()), and then call it using ajaxonload() cf function by putting > >>>> <cfset ajaxonload('function-name-here')> > >>>> as the last line before the closing </body> tag in your page that > loads > >>>> inside dialog. > >>>> > >>>> another option is to create a 'listener' that checks if cf richtext > area > >>>> is ready for use, and only then fire your function that populates the > >>>> form. i don;t have code for this as i have never done it this way, but > i > >>>> think it can be done with setInterval() ... > >>>> > >>>> Azadi > >>>> > >>>> > >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334580 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
