adding custom drop down list in tinymce

Question

I have to display a drop down list in tinymce. I googled to find any tutorial or any good example but I just found that code:

// Adds a menu to the currently active editor instance
var dm = tinyMCE.activeEditor.controlManager.createDropMenu('somemenu');

// Add some menu items
dm.add({title : 'Menu 1', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 1 was clicked.');
}});

dm.add({title : 'Menu 2', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 2 was clicked.');
}});

// Adds a submenu
var sub1 = dm.addMenu({title : 'Menu 3'});
sub1.add({title : 'Menu 1.1', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 1.1 was clicked.');
}});

// Adds a horizontal separator
sub1.addSeparator();

sub1.add({title : 'Menu 1.2', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 1.2 was clicked.');
}});

// Adds a submenu to the submenu
var sub2 = sub1.addMenu({title : 'Menu 1.3'});

// Adds items to the sub sub menu
sub2.add({title : 'Menu 1.3.1', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 1.3.1 was clicked.');
}});

sub2.add({title : 'Menu 1.3.2', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 1.3.2 was clicked.');
}});

dm.add({title : 'Menu 4', onclick : function() {
    alert('Item 3 was clicked.');
}});

// Display the menu at position 100, 100
dm.showMenu(100, 100);

This code seems to create a drop down list but I don't know where to put this code or how to use it to display custom drop down list. Kindly somebody help me in adding custom drop down list in tinyMCE.

Answer 1

var myListItems = ['Item1', 'Item2', 'Item3', 'Item4', 'Item5', 'Item6', 'Item7',
        'Item8', 'Item9', 'Item10', 'Item11'];

tinymce.PluginManager.add('mypluginname', function (editor) {
    var menuItems = [];
    tinymce.each(myListItems, function (myListItemName) {
        menuItems.push({
            text: myListItemName,
            onclick: function () {
                editor.insertContent(myListItemName);
            }
        });
    });

    editor.addButton('mypluginname', {
        type: 'menubutton',
        text: 'My Plugin Name',
        icon: 'code',
        menu: menuItems
    });

    editor.addMenuItem('mypluginnameDropDownMenu', {
        icon: 'code',
        text: 'My Plugin Name',
        menu: menuItems,
        context: 'insert',
        prependToContext: true
    });
});

Then add to your list of plugin when you initialize your editor:

$('#myTesxtArea').tinymce({
theme: "modern",
convert_urls: false,
height: 100,
plugins: [
    "advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview hr anchor pagebreak",
    "searchreplace wordcount visualblocks visualchars code fullscreen",
    "insertdatetime nonbreaking save table contextmenu directionality",
    "paste textcolor","mypluginname"
],
toolbar1: "undo redo | forecolor backcolor | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | link image",
image_advtab: true
});

Here's how panel button with dropdown looks like: