TXP Admin Plugin: Textarea Resizing
With my impending reboot on the horizon, I’ve found myself working in the Textpattern admin interface quite frequently. I predominately work on my laptop with runs at 1920×1200 resolution so needless to say I’m left with quite a bit of wasted space. But no matter what computer I’m working on I always find that I wish I had more space to work with while editing pages, forms, styles or articles.
What it does
The rss_admin_resize plugin allows you to customize the size of the primary textareas and input fields while editing articles, pages, styles and forms. Your settings can be completely customized on a new tab that will be added to your admin interface (admin -> resize). If you work on multiple computers you’ll be able to customize the sizing for each to maxmize your workspace. See the screenshot below for an example of what the new tab will look like. The plugin has been tested out in Firefox, Opera, and even appears to work in IE.
Installation and Setup
In order to setup the plugin, install and activate it as usual. As soon as you navigate to another tab you will be redirected to the resize tab for initial setup. Once you save your settings you will not be prompted to change them again but you can always do so by returning to the resize tab.
Important Notes
Admin plugins require Textpattern RC3 rev 180somethingish or greater. Also keep in mind that for security purposes admin plugins are disabled when you are on the plugin tab.
Comments
15. April 2005
This sounds great, but nothing happened, on Mac or PC, Safari and Firefox, no initial prompt and no Resize tab?
It’s installed in plugins and appears to be active.
(btw, thx for thumbpop)
thx
el
15. April 2005
The forums down, so I’ll post here…
Hey, by the way!
Anyway I istalled this and it worked, but only once..I cant get the selections page to come back up to tweak the settings. I’m on a 1900×1200 display so I will need some tweaking to get take advantage of the realestate. Any Ideas? I have deleted/reinstalled to no avail.
Thanks,
Jamie
Jamie
15. April 2005
Worked like a charm. I was going to ask you about something similar, using javascript to do it on the fly, rather than having it in a separate file, so it could be changed at will, a la VBulletin does for it’s textarea.
I’ve got the code somewhere, just couldn’t ever make it work right, unfortunately.
18. January 2008
There’s a Firefox plugin called like resizable forms or something that lets you resize any input/textarea element on the fly. It’s pretty cool, but it doesn’t save your preference.
Xapti
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