once upon a time concrete5 did inline editing without a popup, and it worked pretty well for basic text content. but for almost all of the other block types it doesn't make sense to try to cram the edit interfaces into each block's footprint. each block has a different set of options and a different set of controls, and the way it is now, those are only shown when you put a block into edit mode.

You are right, but for basic text content in place editing should be ok.

Is not possibile to have both modes?

no, at present it's not possible to do it both ways.

We don't officially support this anymore, because it'd be a bunch of new test cases, but there is a boolean in the BlockTypes database table - btIsEditedInline – which, if you change from 0 to 1, should allow you to use a certain block from within the page, instead of the window. I havent tested this in many versions, so it probably won't work without incident, but if you'd like to explore it further, thatd be a good direction to go. You'll need to change it in the database for the type of block you're interested in editing inline.

are you sure it's still there?

Can't find anything in the table/code..

Ah. I am wrong. Sorry for the red herring - yeah, we don't support this anymore.

At your profile page (if public profiles are enabled) you can see how some kind of inline editing is implemented with a 'save' button.

no, that's not what he's looking for. He wants to use blocks inline, building single pages for inline use is a different story which doesn't allow you to manage blocks/content.

I thought about this a few times and actually got an "inline content" block working at some point. It was a copy of the content block but when you were in edit mode it just displayed tinyMCE with all the c5 bars inline. I achieved this using some area splitter magic.
I didn't get as far as actually saving the content, but I guess it would have been quite easy to do.
I think inline editing will be much easier to achieve in 5.4.
My ultimate idea was that block developers could create (if they wanted) an additional edit form called inline.php, and then if available, c5 would pick it up and allow inline editing of that particular block.

the inline.php thing is a cool idea.

Yeah, I like that too! Would make Concrete5 even better for small sites..