[Solved] RadEditor custom Help icon

[Zal]

Hello,

I'm not sure which version of the RadEditor control we hav, i do know that it was the latest version from Dec 2006.

I want to be able to customize thehelp file, so that i can add my own help FAQ's for the page which is using the rad editor,

I have opened up the Tools.xml file which i use for the partuclaur page.

I have tried
<tool name="Help">
<![CDATA[The help file contains the following]]>
</tool>

but it hasn't worked.

Can anyone please advise me on how to go about altering the help button content.

[Rumen]

Hi Zal,

To customize the contents in the Help dialog, just open the \RadControls\Editor\Localization\en-US\Help.ascx file and modify the HTML content.

Sincerely,
Rumen
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[Jon]

Hello,

Re: customizing Help.ascx. I have done so successfully, however, I also have added a button to the toolbar, and would like to include that in my Help.ascx. It appears that I can just add a row to the table, and populate columns with what I want, but I am not sure if this is safe.Some questions:

1) Can I just add rows to the tables in Help.ascx? Any restrictions?
2) My new button has an associated image. How can I get that image to appear in the help, as with other buttons?
3) Can I remove existing rows from the tables?

Thanks,
-Jon

[Rumen]

Hi Jon,

Straight to the questions:

1. Yes, you can add rows to the tables in the Help.ascx and customize it as per your requirements.
2. You can see how to set an icon to a custom toolbar button in this help article: Adding a Custom Button.
   The css syntax is
   
   <style>
   .reToolbar.<skinName> .<commandName>
   {
     background-image: url(MyImage.gif);
   }
   </style>
3. Yes, you can remove rows from the tables.

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Rumen
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[Jon]

Rumen,

I already have the custom toolbar button with image in place in the Editor, but not from the help.

 

Is there something more than needs to be done to have the image appear in the help?

 

Thanks.

[Rumen]

Hello Jon,

All you need to do is to put an image tag in the table cell for your custom button and specify the src path to point to your own custom image, e.g.

1) Open the Help.ascx file
2) Add a new table raw and put an image in the first cell, e.g.

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="helpTable bottomBorder">
<tr>
    <th style="width: 24px;">
        Icon
    </th>
    <th style="width: 500px;">
        Description
    </th>
    <th>
        Shortcut</th>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td class="reTool">
        <img src="http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-classic/RadControls/Editor/Skins/Default/buttons/CustomDialog.gif" />
    </td>
    <td class="reDescriptionCell">
        custom tool 1</td>
    <td>
        -</td>
</tr>

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Rumen
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[Jon]

Rumen,

Thanks. That works if a full URL http://whatever is given, but when I try to reference an image in my project, the reference looks good in Visual Studio but the image comes up broken when I test the help. I must be overlooking something.

<

img

 

 

src="/App_Themes/Standard/images/saveas.gif"

 

 

alt="SaveAs" />

Suggestions?

Thanks,
-Jon

 

[Rumen]

Hello Jon,

In this path /App_Themes/Standard/images/saveas.gif" the  / placed before the App_Themes folder name represents the root of the web server. Please, remove the slash App_Themes/Standard/images/saveas.gif and test again.

If the problem still persists, right click on the red X icon (which shows the missing icon), choose Properties and see the path where the browser is looking for the saveas.gif icon.

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Rumen
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[Jon]

Rumen,

 

Ah. Stupidity on my part! Sorry to have bothered you with this.

 

Thanks!

-Jon