Is it possible to reinitialize a CKEditor Combobox/Drop Down Menu?

Question

How do I dynamically update the items in a drop down?

I have a custom plugin for CKEditor that populates a drop down menu with a list of items which I can inject into my

Answer 1

I think I just solved this actually.

Change your init like this:

init: function () {
                var rebuildList = CKEDITOR.tools.bind(buildList, this);
                rebuildList();
                $(editor).bind('rebuildList', rebuildList);
            },

And define the buildList function outside that scope.

var buildListHasRunOnce = 0;
        var buildList = function () {
            if (buildListHasRunOnce) {
                // Remove the old unordered list from the dom.
                // This is just to cleanup the old list within the iframe
                $(this._.panel._.iframe.$).contents().find("ul").remove();
                // reset list
                this._.items = {};
                this._.list._.items = {};
            }
            for (var i in yourListOfItems) {
                var item = yourListOfItems[i];
                // do your add calls
                this.add(item.id, 'something here as html', item.text);
            }
            if (buildListHasRunOnce) {
                // Force CKEditor to commit the html it generates through this.add
                this._.committed = 0; // We have to set to false in order to trigger a complete commit()
                this.commit();
            }
            buildListHasRunOnce = 1;
        };

The clever thing about the CKEDITOR.tools.bind function is that we supply "this" when we bind it, so whenever the rebuildList is triggered, this refer to the richcombo object itself which I was not able to get any other way.

Hope this helps, it works fine for me!

ElChe