Well, I figured out how not to only add buttons for my WP People plugin but to have it popup with a window to select from the WP People list and then select a person and have it insert back into the Page or Post. And, I got it to work with both the tinyMCE (the pretty WYSIWYG editor) and basic editors. Yippee!!! Of course, IE is a piece of junk, so it doesn’t work 100% with IE. A couple of errors appear when it loads the list popup, but you can just click through those and the insert still works.
On top of getting this to work, I reduce the number of pages used in another example I saw. In the other examples, it looked like they had to create one popup page for each of the editors. I managed to make it work with just one page (i.e. regardless of what IE says). I also eliminated some other side files that the examples were using. However, my plugin is much simpler and didn’t need a lot of other things.
Of course, as I sit here writing this, I realize that I didn’t restrict the WP People list to the owner, so I guess I’ll be making a quick change. A geek’s work is never done.
Dean has been playing around with programming ever since his family got an IBM PC back in the early 80's. Things have changed since BASICA and Dean has dabbled in HTML, JavaScript, Action Script, Flex, Flash, PHP, C#, C++, J2ME and SQL. On this site Dean likes to share his adventures in coding. And since programming isn't enough of a time killer, Dean has also picked up the hobby of short film creation.
