i’m trying to write a simple button component to call a function called toUni to process either all text or selected text (selected is preferred). I can do a simple button from the tutorial and process the entire composer text and add my processed text to the composer area. (double repeated text i…

I am not sure this is what I want. I just want to call a few javascript calls. I think I see them but the toolevent only gives access to a small set of calls. I can gettext and addtext, but not much else. I’m looking for functions that mimic this functionality: getselectedtext replaceselectedt…

I did think it was somewhat of a long-shot. :slightly_smiling_face: I saw ‘api reference’ and thought I’d chance it. I think my ridiculously wide-of-the-mark answer may have already revealed my inexperience in this area, but (at the risk of doing exactly the same thing again :slight_smile:) I think…

Well… I have done a bit of that tutorial. That is how I got to the button part. Hopefully someone will respond on how to getselected and replaceselected from a toolbarevent class.

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JammyDodger May 14, 2022, 10:56am 3

My API skills are barely emergent, so I apologise if I’ve misunderstood, but are you looking for How to reverse engineer the Discourse API?

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