FCK speed

Worker Joined: Nov 22, 2004 Posts: 208 Location: Italy

Some of my users are complaining that FCK editor loads rather slow.
I'd lie if i say it's a lightening, but I do not grow roots waiting Very Happy

Any idea how to speed up things?
Guido

Note: users have the "basic" toolbar, admins (me) use the "admins" bar.

Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:15 am

This is a common problem with the editor, as of yet I not found a real fix. Have you thought of minimizing the options within the toolbar and toolbar bands?

http://wiki.fckeditor.net/Developer%27s_Guide/Configuration/Toolbar

Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:58 am

Already did that...
On my old nuke 6.9 I was using wysiwyg 3.0 (I think based on Spaw) and it was faster . Pity it didnt work with Firefox...

registered · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:19 am

Thats always been the negitive of FCK, is how slow it loads.

I am sure with some coding changes you can replace FCK with Spaw.

Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:32 am

I just downloaded spaw 1.1 php , but so far, the replacement looks waaaay over my programming skills...

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

I did some testing with SPAW integrated with nukeWYSIWYG, but couldn't get it to work in the time I had available. I've said before that the trade-off of functionality vs. load time makes FCKeditor the preferred editor, and I tested the major ones pretty extensively before reaching that decision. Remember that the grass isn't always greener on the other side: some functions in PHP-Nuke are fairly poorly defined and would load slowly with any WYSIWYG editor (e.g. submit news). That said, I may look into some way to optionally load the editor, or the additional tools, so you can use it if you want it.

Hangin' Around Joined: Apr 01, 2006 Posts: 30

The next version off FCK editor 2.3 should be 3 times faster.

may be that is a solution

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:53 pm

Thanks for pointing that out - we will begin testing with nukeWYSIWYG immediately.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:55 pm

I have been testing it out. Some nice fixes and a few additions. But I think the 3x speed increase is a bit of overstatement. It loads faster, but I would not say its that much.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 3:58 pm

Wow! It added a maximize feature, too! Several people have asked for that...

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:03 pm

Could it get any BETTER?

The new version adds some very important features:
- maximize (already mentioned)
- single (detach) toolbar (think submit news and add content) - one toolbar for each editor instance!!!!! (unfortunately, this currently has issues with IE...surprise!)
- FitWindow (not sure what this does yet, but it sounds interesting)
- AutoGrow (expands the toolbar to show all content when editing!
- and a host of other fixes, improvements and tighter security

Many of the enhancements were contributed by others and adopted into the core source. THIS IS WHAT OPEN SOURCE IS TRULY ABOUT.

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:03 pm

kguske - Does the color menus for text and fill not work for you in FireFox?

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:06 pm

technocrat, haven't played with that, but will try it.

With consolidated image loading and a single toolbar, news and content and other multi-textarea forms will load MUCH faster... I can't wait to get home to test it...

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:08 pm

Actually its putting the selection menus for me on the screen, but way off to the top where I have to scroll up to see them. Confused

Not sure what why

Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 4:11 pm

These notes from the 2.3 changes might address part of the color issues:

Quote:

The "Text Color" and "Background Color" commands buttons have enhancements on the interface.

and

Quote:

The "Background Color" command now works correctly when the GeckoUseSPAN setting is disabled (default).

Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:39 am

2.3 is released, so we'll begin our testing on using it with nukeWYSIWYG this weekend.