External Modules

Modules are special units in r.a.d.editor, used for providing some statistics or for easier setting of properties for HTML elements. Modules, like the toolbars are set in the toolsfile.xml file using <modules> tag.

Although there are certain similarities between modules and toolbars, these are entirely different units in terms of r.a.d.editor. As it was said above, a toolbar and its respective tools, can be used to achieve a task. Same can be said for the modules. The main difference is in the way, you will go for achieving this task.

Modules can dynamically change their content and provide some level of interactivity. You can change some text and see your changes appear immediately in HTML View Module. And vice versa - if you add a tag in HTML View Module, you will see your text updated.

Creating a custom module

This example shows a simple module that displays information about the number of tables and images there are in the content area.

It shows the basic methods that need to be implemented by a module in order to function properly in the editor- the constructor and the OnCreate method.
The module is in the RadEditorTestModule.js file located in the directory of this example.
In order to make it work you need to copy the module to the RadControls/Editor/Scripts/EDITOR_VERSION/Modules directory!