Mauricio Márquez

New windows from your menu item?

locopon@tiendaboliviana.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

I saw a lot of posts asking about how to open a link in a new window from the menu URL. I posted a simple solution in the old days of the asp.net forums for dotnetnuke and today I decided to blog about it becuase I think it could be useful

FckHtmlEditorProvider 02.00.01_Beta and 03.00.01

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT

It has been a long time since my last blog, so I want to apologize for that because many people wanted to know what happened with the FCKeditor provider Project, so here it is the status

Dynamic controls, postbacks and viewstate data

locopon@tiendaboliviana.com — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:00:15 GMT

Many developers out there use a well known technique for dynamically loading an .ascx into another custom .ascx. That technique is applied in the code behind and there are many variants of that code created by many developers out there. Problems? most of times?

Back at work

locopon@tiendaboliviana.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:00:00 GMT

I just returned from a long vacation. I enjoyed the trip with my family and my 1 year old doughter. I want to say sorry for being out so long to everybody waiting news about the FCKeditor.

Now, I will take some time to review the pending tasks for the provider and to re-joing my own team (I abandoned Dan for a long time).

I want to let you all know that now I am in charge to review the editor functionality for the DotNetNuke Framework and this could really improve the way all editor providers work by entering some features like the ones included in the FCKeditor to be available for all the editors (Let’s see if I can meet your expectations here).

I am happy to return to work and to spend some time making my best work for this community. Next days I will try to make a clean provider to be avaliable for the ned DNN version. I know that many people are waiting to know about.

Regards.

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FckHtmlEditorProvider 01.00.07 is ready

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT

After a great job done by the core team and specially our lifesaver called Mrswoop, the new release is ready to download (and... you knew that the editor used to write today's blog was fckeditor?)

FCKeditor provider news and new team member

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT

Hi everyone. I want to apologize because it was a long time without any news about the provider and myself. The truth is that sometimes real life could take more time than expected (My new beautiful daughter).

The new version (01.00.07) of the provider is ready and all it needs is to be published, but it could take some time because the core team has a new process to ensure real quality on each DNN part involved. Hope to have it published this week.

The 01.00.07 version fixes a lot of bugs and includes the new FCKeditor (2.3.2) which fixes a lot of bugs too.

You can learn about the new FCKeditor release here:

http://www.fckeditor.net/whatsnew

I have really good news: we have our first team member. I want to introduce you to Dan Ferguson who will be doing some coding to enhance the provider.

Dan has proved me that he has the knowledge and the imagination to move this project forward and I want to say him thanks to be here helping our community to be better.

Next time I will blog the road map to keep you informed about what is inside our minds. Also, we will start to look for new team members (Testers and documenters) to keep this project going faster and better.

Hope 01.00.08 will come really soon (After 01.00.07 is released) including a big set of new features and enhancements

Regards to all

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FCKeditor provider is out (01.00.06)

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:00:00 GMT

The new version of FCKeditor provider is out (01.00.06)

The modifications were:

The custom options page was moved to a new window to improve load time when the user is allowed to view the custom options, and to solve the profile module problem.
The profile module problem (missing tabmoduleid) was solved by using the tabmoduleid from the "user accounts" module
The image gallery was fixed and validate against the "/" problem under DNN 3.3.x and 4.3.x
Version 2.3.1 of FCKeditor was included to solve some problems.
A new web.config attribute was included to control who is allowed to view and edit the custom options page: CustomOptionsDialog. Possible values are: Host, Admin, None
Fixed a simple bug when using FCKDebugMode
Added support for using four open methods for opening custom options dialog. A new web.config parameter was included so host can decide the best way. Possible values are:

OptionsOpenMode="ShowModalDialog"	This uses the showmodaldialog function of IE (uses normal window.open for other browsers. This could avoid a bug inside IE and session cookies. This is now the default method
OptionsOpenMode="Open"	The normal window.open is used for all browsers
OptionsOpenMode="urlsamewindow"	Uses a normal link that opens in the same window. No javascript
OptionsOpenMode="urlnewwindow"	Uses a normal link that opens in a new window. No javascript

Thanks to all those people who tested the module

Download it from the project page

http://dotnetnuke.comhttp://www.dotnetnuke.com/DotNetNukeProjects/ProviderFCKeditor0153/Downloads/tabid/936/Default.aspx

Regards

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The "Width" problem (and the 100%)

locopon@tiendaboliviana.com — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 04:00:00 GMT

There are some aspects of HTML coding that developers not always take care when creating a module. The experience then gives the last details.

The following are common issues made by developers, skinners, etc (yes...me included)

Let me try to explain by giving a few samples

FckEditor 01.00.04 released

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Thanks for your patience. Now you can download the new provider from the project page.

http://www.dotnetnuke.comhttp://www.dotnetnuke.com/DotNetNukeProjects/ProviderFCKeditor0153/Downloads/tabid/936/Default.aspx

Please take note that this is not an upgrade. This is a new provider and could be installed without touching the old version from dnn.tiendaboliviana.com. It uses a new folder name and a new provider name entry.

Well, a new provider but working identically to the old one. Why? the answer is simple, this is now a new project and uses the DNN branding and this project is going to stay here for long time

I want to thank all people who had to answer all my recurrent requests. Now I will start to build a development team, so stay tunned.

How to install?

You must unzip the downloaded file and you will find a install.txt file in there. Follow the instructions step by step

What is new

A lot of fixes with the image and flash gallery
Fixed the custom CSS and XML file
Added support for Medium trust
Uses the new FCKeditor 2.3 (Really enhanced)
Includes more options to customize font names, font sizes, font formats and font styles
Other pending fixes

The new Gemini space will be created as well and you will be able to report bugs and suggestions there

Please use the forums to post comments and request help

Enjoy

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FCKEditor provider news

mauriciovaleria@hotmail.com — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:00:00 GMT

Sorry for being so quiet lately, but now I can break the silence to give you details about what are coming soon.

There are no real changes other than moving the project to use all DNN branding

Namespace has changed to be under DotNetNuke structure
Some folder names has been changed removing the DS prefix
Provider folder name has been changed
Provider identifier inside web.config has been changed

So the question could be: Can the new provider be installed along with the old one?

The answer is: Yes, the new provider will start as version 01.00.00 using a new name, but it will be the same at the end.

Gallery templates: A few TAGs have been renamed (DS chars removed). You will be able to include your custom gallery templates too after replacing a few TAGs.

It addresses a few pending bugs, and now it will start to use the standard way to make suggestions and to report bugs (Gemini)

Next days I will be recruiting more people inside the team.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. The new release will be available soon.

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