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Asked by pkej

I recently added the prosepoint modules to a project I am migrating from 5.x to 6.x. Enabling the editor automatically enabled channels etc.

I wonder if you have considered integrating with the wysiwyg module? For example the select image functionality is sorely missed by everyone using image fields and not image nodes. If that could be factored out and into a small module integrated with the wysiwyg's button api, then your efforts could be valuable to a much larger part of the community.

The same for the pp_editor; as it is now it automatically installs prosepoint channels. Again, if it was factored out so that the dependency on prosepoint channels went via another module, then the pp_editor could be installed and the functionality depending on prosepoint_channels would not be installed.

Apart from that, I can work with installing everything on my sites, but if you search the issue queues of image_browser, img_assist and imce you will see a lot of frustraition about the functionality that your pp_editor provides.

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bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#1

Hi,

When I started work on the ProsePoint modules, I definitely considered basing the editor on wysiwyg.module + image assist. However, I didn't for a number of reasons ...

Those two modules weren't quite ready and usable/stable for 6.x at that time.

I came to the conclusion that seamless wysiwyg editing with image support needed modules that knew about each other and integrated tightly (or else needed a monolothic module, but the reasoning is the same). Directly using predefined CCK content types also helped a lot with this.

I needed to have close control over the editor because I consider it a very important part of making ProsePoint usable out of the box.

Hence, I wrote the editor independently of the wysiwyg.module and img_assist.module.

In hindsight, yes, it is still possible to merge the ProsePoint editor into wysiwyg.module and other modules, but I think it would have taken much longer to achieve.

(And I'm still not quite convinced it is possible to achieve the same level of functionality with wysiwyg.module and others without doing an excessive amount of work).

Moving forward, I may consider merging/refactoring at a future point in time, but I cannot promise this.

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Aaron Gill (gill-aaron) said : 		#2

Hi bengtan,

We are currently using Pp for www.mmail.com.my and so far its been great but we have had some issues with ProsePoint editor with regards to the image manipulation. Whenever an image is inserted into the editor, if the user moves that image somewhere else in the story, and saves it, the image makes a duplicate copy of itself, one in the old location and the second in the new location within the same story. Its weird I know, can't seem to explain it to the users, wonder if there's a fix for this?

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bengtan (bengtan) said : 		#3

@Aaron: Please post this to the support forum on the ProsePoint website. I haven't observed the behaviour you've described, but if it is happening, and it's repeatable, it's a bug that needs to get fixed.

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