TinyMCE editor inside a TinyMCE Plugin

I am creating a plugin for TinyMCE, which is basically a form that h开发者_运维百科as a textarea in it. I want the user to be able to input formatted text in that textarea, using the TinyMCE editor. The problem is that I'm not able to 'enrich' the textarea element inside the dialog.htm file in any way. Does there exist a way to do such a thing?

Thanks in advance,

Tomor

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I found a quick fix. I managed to put the editor in an iframe, following the suggestion in this post:

http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=84668#p84668

It seems a bit messy, but it works.