Question

I have a TinyMCE editor in my page. I would like to add/remove buttons/plugins from the toolbar based on things happening else where in the page. I am looking for a solution that avoids destroying and recreating the editor. Is there a tinyMCE command to do this? Something like

tinyMCE.execCommand("mceInsertPlugin", pluginName);

Answer 1

You cannot load plugins without reinitializing the editor.
But with buttons it is possible:

Create button on the fly:

  ed.addButton('example', {
     title : 'example.desc',
     image : '../jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/example/img/example.gif',
     onclick : function() {
        ed.windowManager.alert('Hello world!! Selection: ' + ed.selection.getContent({format : 'text'}));
     }
  });

Removal:
$('.mce_example').parent('td').remove();