Translations are not saved for tinymce HTMLField when using jquery tabs about django-modeltranslation HOT 5 CLOSED

From [email protected] on September 22, 2010 20:58:27
also seeing this happen. model saves if you take away jquery tabs. so it's on the jquery side of things

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From [email protected] on September 22, 2010 21:45:16
further exploration:

for some reason when jquery tabs are enabled, it creates a duplicate of the tinyMCE setup.

here is an example on a field named 'body' in my model
no jquery tabs:

fdsafdsa

...... [OMITTED: all the table elements that go along with a tinyMCE field]

with jquery tabs:

fdsafdsa

[OMITTED (again)]
[OMITTED (again)]

so you can see that either the jquery tabs or tinymce itself is creating a duplicate copy of everything that goes along with a tinymce field and hiding (display: none) the original textarea and the first instance of the tinymce field.

as the comment before mine stated, the body_en form variable does not get passed in the POST. pretty sure this is due to the duplicate tinymce fields

i found a workaround though:
converted tinymce.HTMLField back to models.TextField
add appropriate calls to tinymce javascript in the class Media of the model's admin class

this works fine for me now. i guess there's no need to have django-tinymce anyway when you can easily add it to the models admin class

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From eschler on September 24, 2010 18:03:43
This seems to be a general problem with tinymce and jquery-ui tabs. As far as i understand it's related to the way tinymce is initialized.

I haven't used HTMLField myself, but had a similiar problem using the widget provided by django-tinymce. Finally solved it by rewriting the widget to use the jquery tinymce plugin to initialize tinymce. The plugin comes with tinymce.
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/example_23.php

In case nobody comes up with a solution to fix this on the modeltranslation side of things, i consider this problem as won't fix.

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From [email protected] on November 25, 2010 18:20:11
To fix this (and maybe similar problems) I suggest to provide something like this:

tabbed_translation_fields.js:65

• container.find('script').remove(); // this will prevent init script re-run

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From eschler on December 22, 2010 10:33:53
Thanks for the patch! Committed it to svn. Closing the issue, please reopen in case it doesn't work for you.

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