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ADF 11g RC: Manipulating a components toolbar.

Last week I had a question regarding the Rich Text Editor in ADF 11g RC.

Is it possible to disable/enable or add/remove components form the rich text editor's toolbar? At first I didn't know the answer, but after some investigation it appears to be very simple.

The most important piece of the puzzle is to understand how the toolbar is constructed. According to the components documentation, the toolboxLayout property allows control over the layout of the toolbar. This is actually just an Array of Strings.

The built in strings the component recognizes are:
1) "all"
2) "font"
3) "history"
4) "color"
5) "formatAll"
6) "justify"
7) "list"
8) "indent"
9) "link"
10) "newline"
11) "stretch"


For more information on what these built in Strings do, refer to the online help of the component.

One of the options you have to change the toolbar is to bind the editor component to a backing bean. In this bean you can manipulate the list with the built in Strings.



Each of the entries in this select many checkbox correspondents with one of the properties in the toolbar.



Every time a checkbox is selected or deselected, the corresponding item in the toolbar will (dis-)appear. This happens because the autosubmit property of the checkbox is set to true, and in the toolbarItems() method, not only the list with selected checkboxes is updated, but also the bound richTextEditor is changed by calling its setToolboxLayout() method with the list of checked boxes as argument.


public void setToolbarItems(String[] toolbarItems) {
this.toolbarItems = toolbarItems;
toolbarItemMap.clear();
for (int i = 0; i < toolbarItems.length; i++) {
toolbarItemMap.put(toolbarItems[i], Boolean.TRUE);
}
rte.setToolboxLayout(toolbarItems);
}


This results in a runtime changeable toolbar.



Note that with this knowledge we are also able to change the toolbar of a calendar component, because this toolbar consists of a set of built in Strings as well.
You can download a workspace with the toolbar functionality here.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Great Help for me.The richTexteditor stop working when i set the local of the application to indian language such as hindi(hi).I need to disable the font for that case.
Luc Bors said…
Do you have more info for this ? What version are you using, and what is it exactly that you want to achieve
Rolling Stone said…
Jdeveloper version is Studio Edition Version 11.1.1.6.0.I am toggling the local between English and Hindi(Indian language) using FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().setLocale(new Locale("hi"))in the login page;
When the local is hindi Richtexteditor of the landing(home page) is failing with some javascript nullpointer exception internally.
Luc Bors said…
Hi there, It looks like a bug in the RichTextEditor. I suggest you either post the question on the JDeveloper ADF forum, or you file a SR on metalink.
Rolling Stone said…
Thanks Luc.I have posted the issue in the ADF forum.Same issue is happening for af:inputDate also.Seems internal adf javascript bug.
Luc Bors said…
FYI: The forumpost can be found here: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2443360
Rolling Stone said…
Thanks Luc. RichtextEditor is working by discarding the font from the toolbar. RichInputdate is not working with 'hi' locale.
Using jquery date instead of richInputdate for the time being.

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