Latest Internal Build

In our efforts to keep you informed on the progress of RadEditor "Prometheus" we are posting the latest internal build from today.

This is the list of the things we have been working on since SP1:

1. Fixed editor tooltips not showing in Firefox
2. Implemented NodeInspector module (including AlignmentSelector tool)
3. AJAX Spellchecking in FireFox now advances automatically to next word
4. UI improvements (textarea in HTML mode and RealHtml module, etc), UI improvements in IE6
5. Bug fixes with Filters and Flash files in FireFox and Opera
6. FireFox - Fixed jumping of page if disabled tool is pressed in design mode
7. FireFox - localized message when pressing the "Paste" button
8. Removed table borders when going into Preview mode
9. Paste dialogs in FireFox implemented allowing for format stripping
10. FormatCodeBlock dialog

The following tasks are under development and not fully finished yet.

1. ImageMap dialog
2. ImageProperties dialog
3. PageProperties dialog
4. TableWizard/Table properties dialog
5. A couple of new skins

We are targeting an official SP2 release towards the end of next week which will include all the points from the lists above.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still work in progress and some of the things are not 100% complete and have not gone through full QA phase. The official release will be towards the end of next week.

Any feedback is very welcome!

Best Regards,
Telerik team

Hi,

I downloaded the zip file (Telerik hot fix) but could not find any dll for radEditor. I could only see TelerikWeb, charting and design dlls, but no file for prometheus RADEDITOR.

Please let me know if I am missing something.

Thanks
Vivek

Hello Vivek,

Indeed, these are the files that you need. Telerik.Web.UI.dll file contains all controls included in RadControls "Prometheus". More information on how to use them is available in the following sections of the documentation:

• Installation and deployment
• Adding RadControls to the Visual Studio 2005 Toolbox
• Adding RadControls to an ASP.NET WebForm
• Controls / RadEditor /
• Getting Started

All the best,

Georgi Tunev

the Telerik team

Hi Georgi

Perhaps you could let us (the Telerik Community) know when a complete, usable version of the Prometheus editor will be released (an exact date would be nice). I have, as do many others I'm sure, project deadlines, and need to know if implementing the new editor is a waste of time. As for the latest hotfix, I implemented the files and received a Public Key Token error. Please refer to my support tickets for more details.

On a side note, will the other controls be brought into the new Prometheus control structure? Is this planned or will we have to run both Rad tools and Prometheus tools concurrently.

Hi guys,

We are now working on the aforementioned features of RadEditor Prometheus and we are targeting the end of the week for the hotfix release. The pending bugs are being fixed, so if you have a bug in RadEditor to report, now is the time.

What do you mean by "complete, usable version"? After the hotfix RadEditor Prometheus will have 95% of the functionality RadEditor Classic has: only the toolbar modes and the docking toolbars will not be present. Currently, we have no plans for implementation of docking toolbars, the toolbar modes will be implemented by the end of the year for Q3.

Regarding your latest question - yes, we plan porting all the controls in the ASP.NET product line to the  "Prometheus" one:
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-prometheus/faq.aspx
To my regret I am not able to give an exact timeframe in which all the controls (there are still six of them left) will be implemented, but we expect all controls to become part of Prometheus in Q1. RadGrid, RadUpload, RadSpell and at least two navigation controls will enter Prometheus by the end of the year.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Valeri Hristov (Senior Developer, MCSD)
the Telerik team

Please finad attached the latest internal build we have from today (25 October).

Here is the list of "What's New" in the update:

• Fixed problems reported on the forums in the last week. Most important fix is the editor not rending its height correctly when loading invisible (e.g. in a tabstrip), as well as several fixes to the editor content filters.
• Fully complete AttributeInspector module, with Undo/Redo support
• Three more dialogs ported: Set Image Properties, Image Map,- Page Properties
• The three remaining editor toolbar modes/flavors – PageTop, ShowOnFocus and Floating are functional, yet some design and skinning issues remain to be improved on.
• Three new editor skins
• Localization support in the dialogs – 10 dialogs have localization support, 5 remaining

+ "DocumentManager"
+ "FindAndReplace"
+ "FlashManager"
+ "FormatCodeBlock"
+ "ImageManager"
+ "ImageMapDialog"
+ "LinkManager"
+ "MediaManager"
+ "SetImageProperties"
+ "TemplateManager"

Not localized
- "PagePropertiesl"
- "AboutDialog"
- "Help"
- "TableWizard"
- Paste dialogs under FireFox

Remaining to be done:

• Complete dialog localization support
• Complete editor toolbar modes layout
• Complete implementing Table Wizard dialog (at present 2 of its 4 tabs are complete)
• Implement thumbnail creator functionality

We still need several more days to finish up an official SP2 release.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This is still work in progress and some of the things are not 100% complete and have not gone through full QA phase. The official release will be within several days.

Any feedback is very welcome!

Best Regards,
Telerik team

I believe that in this 10/25 hotfix that the image preview is not working in radeditor.  Is that true?  It does not work for me.  Also, Do I need to copy any more than the /bin directory from the hotfix zip file to make the update work?  there are a lot of resource files I don't think I need.  true?

thanks,

After copying the new files and folders from the zip in your project you should update the Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspx and Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler.axd declarations in your project's web.config file as shown below:

 <add path="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspx" verb="*" type="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler, Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2007.2.1025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4"
        validate="false" />
      <add path="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler.axd" verb="*" type="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler, Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2007.2.1025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4"
        validate="false" />

This should activate the Image Dialog.

Best regards,
Rumen

My current handlers are as below.  Do I need to have the version in the path?  I currently don't have it and it seems to work.

<httpHandlers>

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="RadScriptResource.axd" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadScriptResource, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspx" type="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler.axd" type="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

<remove path="*.asmx" verb="*"/>

<add path="*.asmx" verb="*" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" validate="false"/>

<add path="ScriptResource.axd" verb="GET,HEAD" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" validate="false"/>

</httpHandlers>

Hi Peter,

You should write the fully name only if you store the Telerik.Web.UI.dll in the GAC. In your scenario it seems that the Telerik.Web.UI.dll file is placed in the bin folder so you can use the short names:

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="RadScriptResource.axd" type="Telerik.Web.UI.RadScriptResource, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.aspx" type="Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

<add verb="*" validate="false" path="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler.axd" type="Telerik.Web.UI.SpellCheckHandler, Telerik.Web.UI"/>

Best regards,
Rumen

any news on when the hotfix or release will be available that fixes the image preview problem in the Image Upload Dialog?

Hi all,

SP2 for RadControls "Prometheus" is now available for download from Client.Net (version number is 2007.2.1107)
Please check release history at http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-prometheus/release-history.aspx

Greetings,
the Telerik team

Perfect!  Thank you.  The image preview works great now on my database content.  I appreciate all your hard work on this.