• Licensing
• Browser Support
• Integration (PHP)
• Usage
• Miscellaneous

Licensing

My company would like to use SPAW Editor in content management system we are developing. Are we allowed to do that for free?

SPAW Editor is released free of charge under GNU General Public License (GPL). So as long as you use it in a way compatible with the terms of GPL you can use it free of charge, otherwise you can obtain SPAW Editor under a different commercial license. In case you are not sure if your intended use is compatible with GPL check out the GPL FAQ. In short you can use SPAW Editor under the GPL license in 2 cases: 1) you distribute your product based on SPAW Editor under the same GPL license; 2) you don't distribute your product at all (in-house projects, etc.) In other cases you will need to obtain a commercial license. Please send your inquiries to spaw@solmetra.com

I've bought a commercial SPAW Editor license. Do I get updates free of charge?

You will get all the updates to the minor version numbers free of charge. For example if you have purchased a license when SPAW was at version 1.0.2 you will get all the upgrades to versions 1.x free of charge but not to version 2.0. You will be able to buy an upgrade to major version updates at special upgrade prices.

Browser Support

I can't see copy/cut/paste buttons under Firefox and Opera but they are available under MSIE. Why is that?

Firefox and Opera treat clipboard access from JavaScript as a security threat. There's no way for us to enable it from the script. However you can configure your Firefox to allow clipboard access by following steps in this article. You will need to update SPAW's toolbar files so that copy, cut and paste buttons appear under Gecko based browsers.

Integration (PHP)

I get javascript errors whenever page containg SPAW Editor loads. What do I do wrong?

Make sure the call to SPAW's show() method is in-between <form> tags

I use templating system on my site but SPAW's show() method echoes all the content to the client. How do I get editor's code into variable for future use?

You should use getHtml() method instead of show(). It returns the code which you can store into variable and use whenever you need it.

Usage

Why table cell merging is implemented in such a weird way (merge right, merge down)?

SPAW Editor includes a vertical merging feature. Unfortunately there is no standard way to select 2 table cells vertically so we decided to implement it so the currently selected cell is merged with the one below (merge down). Horizontal merging is implemented in the same way for clarity (merge right).

Miscellaneous

I would like to have "feature X" in the control but I don't have time/skills to implement it myself. What should I do?

Post your feature suggestion in our forums or send it by email to spaw@solmetra.com. We will consider your request and place it on our todo list according to our understanding of importance of the feature. You can increase the priority of the feature by making a donation of some sort.