VW 5.5.1 & 6.0 M10 (0.1.1 & current 0.1.2 in progress show this issue)

BP Ajax Rich Text Editor does not render/work (images attached)

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In VWP 5.5 dojo toolkit was not added to the woodtsock jar. In 5.5.1 it was added. That is what is breaking the Blue 
print component (itself is has a bundled dojo toolkit)

I did some experiment.

- Remove dojo toolkit in blue print components and use the one from woodstock
- Upgrade the dojo toolkit from 0.4.1 to 0.4.3

None of them helped. I still see the problem. The toolbar is not rendered and only  a small bounding box is rendered.

Dan, Is there anything special needed to be done to render a dojo toolkit widget like Editor2 when used along with 
woodstock components.

- Winston 


I'm not familiar with how these particular widgets are defined in the page. However, if the Dojo is looking for "dojo" 
tags, our head and themeLinks tags support a parseWidgets attribute you can set to true. There is a considerable 
performance increase when this property is false because it prevents Dojo from parsing the page for "dojo" tags.

Dan 


Dan,

Rich Text Editor is rendered as element <textarea> with dojoType="Editor",  not in the usual dojo.widget.defineWidget
() method

       writer.startElement("textarea", editor);
       writer.writeAttribute("id", clientId, "id");
       writer.writeAttribute("name", clientId, "clientId");
       writer.writeAttribute("dojoType", "Editor", null);
       Object value = editor.getValue();
       if (value != null) {
           writer.write(value.toString());
           writer.write("\n");
       }
       writer.endElement("textarea");

Not sure if this is a problem, when combined with woodstock components.

- Winston 



Dojo needs to parse the page for this type of widget. Try setting head tag's parseWidgets=true property.

Dan 


Wow!, the solution is so simple. That is it. Widget is showing correctly now.

BTW, does this introduce any performance issue.

- Winston 


One of the performance suggestions in the Dojo manual is to set parseWidgets=false. This will improve page rendering 
performance because Dojo does not parse each and every HTML tag in the page looking for tags. Since we're creating 
widgets dynamically, this is not needed in most cases and makes sense to turn it off by default.

Dan