Ticket #6199 (closed enhancement: wontfix)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

TinyMCE fails to detect some Mac keyboard combos

Reported by: Denis-de-Bernardy Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: lowest Milestone: 2.6
Component: TinyMCE Version: 2.5
Severity: trivial Keywords: tinymce, mac
Cc:

Description

This is a very minor niggle, but it would be nice if things worked as expected. :)

On a Mac, in Camino (i.e. Firefox lite) and Safari, if you select text using Shift + Command + Arrow (to select the entire line), the Add Link button doesn't turn on. I'm assuming the same for Firefox.

Things work fine when you use Shift + Arrow or Shift + Option + Arrow.

The Windows equivalent, for reference and testing purposes, would be Shift + Arrow and Shift + Control + Arrow respectively. Not sure about Linux.

Change History

03/13/08 18:19:28 changed by mdawaffe

  • keywords set to tinymce.
  • summary changed from add link button broken, sometimes to add link button broken in rich editor, sometimes.

I noticed this problem in WP's TinyMCE today too when typing Command-a in FF3b4/Mac (to select all the text).

03/13/08 20:35:56 changed by azaozz

Seems to be Mac specific behaviour. Using Shift + Arrow in Windows (FF, Safari, Opera) selects one character at a time, using Shift + Control + Arrow selects one word at a time, triple-clicking selects the whole paragraph and Ctrl + A selects all. In all cases the Link button activates. Passing on to TinyMCE's team.

03/13/08 23:25:42 changed by Denis-de-Bernardy

  • keywords changed from tinymce to tinymce, mac.
  • summary changed from add link button broken in rich editor, sometimes to On Mac boxes, Add link button in TinyMCE fails in a rare use-cases.

Hopefully, someone over there will have a Mac. :D

Bumping this

03/14/08 00:23:42 changed by lloydbudd

  • component changed from Administration to TinyMCE.
  • summary changed from On Mac boxes, Add link button in TinyMCE fails in a rare use-cases to Mac, Add Link button in TinyMCE fails seldom.

06/28/08 15:45:48 changed by pishmishy

I can confirm this under FF3 in OS X. I don't know enough about my Mac or TinyMCE to fix this though.

07/09/08 13:51:17 changed by MattyRob

  • summary changed from Mac, Add Link button in TinyMCE fails seldom to TinyMCE fails to detect some Mac keyboard combos.

I suspect that this is a bug in TinyMCE and not WordPress.

To reproduce: Open a "Write Post" page Enter some text into the document Change the focus off the textarea Select text using different methods: Mouse + drag works Ctrl+A works Shift + arrow keys works

Command as a modifier key and arrows doesn't work, most likely because TinyMCE does not detect the modifier on Mac of pressing Command. I will confirm my suspicions by trying out TinyMCE directly on the Moxiecode site from my Mac later and close this ticket as wontfix and log it with TinyMCE if I'm right.

07/09/08 19:03:15 changed by MattyRob

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

This affects TinyMCE outside of the WordPress environment (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true) so closing as invalid and opening a ticket (SourceForge? ID 2014422)

(follow-up: ↓ 9 ) 07/11/08 19:49:45 changed by MattyRob

I've found a fix.. line 7974 in tiny_mce is: 

if ((e.keyCode >= 33 && e.keyCode <= 36) || (e.keyCode >= 37 && e.keyCode <= 40) || e.keyCode == 13 || e.keyCode == 45 || e.keyCode == 46 || e.keyCode == 8 || e.ctrlKey)

Change this to: 

if ((e.keyCode >= 33 && e.keyCode <= 36) || (e.keyCode >= 37 && e.keyCode <= 40) || e.keyCode == 13 || e.keyCode == 45 || e.keyCode == 46 || e.keyCode == 8 || (tinymce.isMac && e.keyCode >= 91 && e.keyCode <= 93) || e.ctrlKey)

(in reply to: ↑ 8 ) 07/11/08 20:02:25 changed by azaozz

Replying to MattyRob:

I've found a fix.. line 7974 in tiny_mce is:

Thanks, will pass it on to the TinyMCE's developers.