let us know, but afraid I have never used a plugin like that…  Andy is our tinymce expert and should return from vacation thursday or friday and should be able to offer more help…

Sorry for bumping this!

Hi Andy,

hope you had a nice holiday!

I would be more than happy, if you could spare some time to look on the above – maybe you have some idea how to solve it!

It looks and sounds to me like you did everything correctly.

So firstly I would check the German language .js file for the plugin to make sure if is bona-fide. We have known instances where the language files provided by Moxie have typos in them for example.

Check all of the entries are there as shown on the dialog and that the case is the same as these ARE case sensitive.

If all is well then also try emptying your browser cache to see if that is all the problem is.

I tried everything as proposed and more – compared word by word and with the English file, emptied cache – it did not work, so far.

I also tried a language file which is proven to work with tinyMCE advanced and placed it into the questionable language directory – no success. It is like the file is not recognized at all. If I remove it completely and switch to ‘de’ it is showing the same picture as being present in the directory. The item css class is translated correctly but this is part of the basic tinyMCE lang file not part of the table lang file. This is kind of strange because afaik there is only one tinymce.init routine – not a separate one for plugins.

Do you still have another idea what  the reason behind could be?

Edit: Arrggh! I tried the French file from the same source and it worked immediately – compared it with the German file and cannot find any difference in parameter names. It might be better to ask the tinymce guys – it seems to be their issue!

But why does it work in tinymce advanced?

This is getting curious!

I have installed the table plugin and German language file on my development site and I am afraid the translations work as expected! I am afraid I have no explanation for that!

My problem is that I don’t seem to be able to get the second toolbar to show up! And this, I assume, is a problem you are NOT having…

Why doesn’t that surprise me?

Since day one of handling tinyMCE, I experience all kind of curiousities.

It’s not always easy to handle, is it?

No, my second button bar is perfectly allright.

I installed the lang file on a second similar set up of my site and it shows the same picture. Next step for me is to install it on a ‘blank’ WordPress and SimplePress – just to make sure it is not caused by the environment before I shift it over to the tinymce guys.

I don’t see any way the environment should effect this to be honest.

You should check the file permissions that were assigned to the file when you copied up to the server – can it be successfully read by TM?

Now I have to try and work out where my second toolbar has gone…

And yes – TM is very twitchy to the slightest thing!

Checked all the file and directory permissions and they are o.K.

Everybody has read access to it – and it is exactly the same like the English and the French file which work.

Isn’t it possible that other running instances of TM influence the result ? If they are not initialized correctly or using a different or default language? There are quite a lot of plugins out there in the wild using an instance of TM, sometimes hidden deeply in code.

I have also seen plugins enqueuing scripts in a way that others stopped working or produced garbage. This is what I meant with ‘environment’.

Quite right. I was assuming though that none of this applied in your case. I am still intrigued.