WYSIWYG editor height not adjustable - too slim

[shanen]

Hi,
The WYSIWYG editor only fits 5 lines which makes editing a few paragraphs with bullet points, tables etc quite difficult.
See attached screenshot.
Cheers,
Shane.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

Hi Shanen,

You can put these instructions in your config.php file to make the text box larger:

  $cfg->blockeditormaxwidth = true;
  $cfg->blockeditorheight = 550;

(the second one may not be necessary)

But really, we should look into making this the default for 1.5

Cheers,
Francois

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

We're going to need to find another solution for 1.5, because that config option to increase the size of the textbox configuration form doesn't play nicely with the variable-height form introduced by reusable textboxes.

We could have another go at trying to get the fullscreen button to work (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/530656)

We could also try the autoresize plugin again (https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/791854), though this doesn't help with the textbox configuration because the containing form will still be too small.

Or we could implement the theme_advanced_resizing setting (described by Thomas Bell on http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=724) We just need to find the setting that stops the resized dimensions from being 'sticky', which was the main downside I saw when I took a brief look at it.

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

Hi Francois,
I suppose either full screen or drag-able TinyMCE window is out of the question for now.

In the mean time, could there be an admin setting to configure the default height of the editing window?

Then folks could set it to 10 or 15 whatever suited their users.

Thanks.
Shane.

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

Richard, by "reusable textboxes" do you mean resizeable?
Because I can't resize ours.

[shanen (shane-nuessler-canberra)]

Just out of interest,
How come we cannot achieve the resizeable example on this page - dynamically by the user?
http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php

[François Marier (fmarier)]

We have enabled the full-screen button in 1.5, see bug #530656.

For the details on reusable text boxes, see bug #736665.

[Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner)]

Full-screen option and draggable corner have been implemented.