moodle-tiny_fontcolor

Installation

• Unzip the contents of the zip archive into the Moodle .../lib/editor/tiny/plugins/fontcolor directory.
• As a Moodle Admin go to Site Administration -> Plugins -> Text Editors -> TinyMCE editor -> Tiny text color/text background color settings and add a view color names and color codes for at least on of the setting "Available text colors" or "Available text background colors".
• You may also enable the color picker for text color or background color.

If no colors are available and the color picker is disabled then the menu item and button in the TinyMCE editor will not appear. This is valid for both, the text color setting and the background color setting.

The color name can be an arbitrary string e.g. Red or Dark Green or whatever you name your color. The name can be also the "corporate name" e.g. that is used in any style guides of the corporate identity at your institution.

Colorscheme

If you want a predefined color scheme, then you may add the json from the file colorscheme.json into the settings textcolors and/or backgroundcolors in the plugin settings. This can be done by e.g.

UPDATE config_plugins
SET value = '<json_string>'
WHERE plugin = 'tiny_fontcolor' AND name = 'textcolors';

Multilanguage support

Color names may also use language tags for the color names. Text filters are applied. For example setting black and white with German and English labels would look like this:

[
    {
        "name": "<span class=\"multilang\" lang=\"de\">Schwarz</span><span class=\"multilang\" lang=\"en\">Black</span>",
        "value": "#000000"
    },
    {
        "name": "<span class=\"multilang\" lang=\"de\">Weiss</span><span class=\"multilang\" lang=\"en\">White</span>",
        "value": "#ffffff"
    }
]

The value of the name property can be copied as it is, in the admin settings area.

The name of the color is used as a tooltip in the editor when hovering over the appropriate color square.

Version History

0.8

• Adjustments for Moodle 4.5

0.7

• Fix HTML areas without files seem to fail with the tiny_fontcolor enabled #16 and TinyMCE fails when creating a qtype_multichoice question #17. The introduced context menu items in 0.6 didn't show up under some conditions (e.g. in mc questions for answers and feedback) when there was no previously defined contextmenu.

0.6

• Add quickbar support #14 by Thomas Ludwig

0.5

• Add support for Moodle 4.4 and PHP 8.3.
• Add json for a comprehensive color scheme (thanks to Joseph Rézeau).

0.4

• Add CI stack for Moodle 4.3

0.3

• Fix CI issue: (#1) HTML Validation info, line 10: Trailing slash on void elements has no effect and interacts badly with unquoted attribute values.
• Fix behat by switching to trait class by Jason Platts
• Preparing for PHP 8.2 Support by Luca Bösch
• Lifted software maturity to stable

0.2.3

• Lift software maturity level to RC.
• Fix issue The close button of the color picker can't be reach by keyboard

0.2.2

• Lift software maturity level to STABLE.
• Adapt CI to test against Moodle 4.2.
• Fix example JSON in mustache templates and make CI have templates checked.
• Fix issue Probably, $string['helplinktext'] = 'Font colour'; is needed in the lang strings.

0.2.1

• Add behat test for the admin settings page and reorganize tests.
• Remove function str_contains to be PHP7.x compliant.
• Change maturity of plugin to release candidate.
• Privacy Provider was added.

0.2.0

Initial release