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Development discussions on PatternSkin

-- ArthurClemens - 03 Feb 2006

PatternSkin seems to be inconsistent with regards to usage of WEBLOGOIMG and WIKILOGOIMG. I guess WIKILOGOIMG in twiki.pattern.tmpl should be changed to WEBLOGOIMG to make the respective setting affect the print layout as well.

-- JoachimSchnitter - 21 Feb 2006

actually the WIKILOGOIMG is basically broken and doesn't match the documentation i made in DakarReleaseNotes? . it should be fixed in 4.0.2 (see Bugs:Item1695)

-- WillNorris - 21 Feb 2006

I have attached the new twiki.js file which solves the problem of "the Show/Hide help in edit.template not working (4.0.1) after installing TwistyPlugin". Copy this twiki.js file at /your twiki dir/pub/TWiki/TWikiJavascripts/. and have fun

-- AviYagodnick - 27 Feb 2006

Is there a gallery of best pattern skin CSSs?

-- MartinCleaver - 15 Mar 2006

I've been playing around with getting the pattern skin webleftbar to show up as the firefox sidebar. I call it PatternSkinWebSideBar.

• How does this work? -- ArthurClemens - 02 May 2006

-- AndrewSBrown - 02 May 2006

I'm running into a problem where the skin looks differently and has less features on two of my TWiki sites that I upgraded but not the third. Both are related to the look in 'Edit' mode. I have posted the details in the Support web here but thought I would also note it here as well. See the link for all the details.

-- RickMach - 12 Jun 2006

How can I change the location of the navigation bar to right from left (default) in pattern skin?

-- AlokNarula - 23 Jun 2006

See SetTwikiLeftNavigationBarPositionRight.

-- ArthurClemens - 23 Jun 2006

Supposedly the latest version of this skin is January 2006 but the .zip file at PatternSkin is still for Septembver 2004.

The version that comes with TWiki 4.0.3 doesn't work with my site for some unknown reason. I keep reinstalling from the .zip.

Help.

-- VickiBrown - 29 Jun 2006

This skin forces the textarea box in the edit page to have a white background, but the text in this box tends to be decided by the system colors of the OS that the browser is running on. This is a problem when the system colors are set for white text on dark backgrounds (end up with white text on a white background!). The skin should be changed to either use system colors for both (text+background) or neither (force black text on white background).

-- BenWatts - 21 Jul 2006

I have attached the newest pattern skin zip. The textarea color 'bug' should be fixed in this version.

-- ArthurClemens - 23 Jul 2006

I have upgraded to the new PatternSkin and the problem is fixed. However, I just found that clicking on "Raw view" brings up a textarea with the converse problem (forced black text on the system colour background). Sorry to be annoying! And there are lots more examples: the password textbox on the login page and the form for adding new webs (TWiki:ManageWebs) to name a couple.

• I've uploaded a new version. -- ArthurClemens - 27 Sep 2006

-- BenWatts - 06 Aug 2006

It seems that after installing TwistyPlugin the Show/Hide help in edit.template not working (4.0.1)

• I remember there was a bug in some version of twiki.js. Try this site's version and put it in pub/TWiki/TWikiJavaScripts/. Otherwise upgrade to the latest TWiki (4.0.4). -- ArthurClemens - 26 Sep 2006

-- ChintuJani - 26 Sep 2006

There is a problem when printing large tables (two pages by example..), the rows seems truncated. It's only occurs in Mozilla-Firefox (not in Opera and IE). It could be a error in layout.css (deactivating this, the problem doesnt occurs)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324956

-- OswaldoRubio - 27 Sep 2006

Hi Arthur, I am not sure if you are the right one for this, but I hope you know otherwise the right one

After updating TwistyContrib and TwistyPlugin and PatternUpdate? I still had this mystic when loading page with attachments for the first time. This must be, because I always throw away all cookies when I close my Firefox. So in Script Debugger there was an error for pub/TWiki/TWikiJavascript/Twiki.js in line 389 in function

function _getKeyValue (inKeyValues, inKey)

like "inKeyValues has no properties". And for that I got a doubled view for opening and closing attachments.

So I add following Patch to

function _getKeyValue (inKeyValues, inKey)

and

function _getKeyValueLoc (inKeyValues, inKey)

before they initialize their varibale "i":

if (inKeyValues == null) return null;

I added this to line 389 and 403 ind TWiki.js.

Hope you will know what to do.

Tom

-- ThomasFreudenberg - 03 Nov 2006

Thanks, I've updated twiki.js (SVN 11882).

-- ArthurClemens - 04 Nov 2006

Printing problems should be solved with SVN 11920.

-- ArthurClemens - 08 Nov 2006

We discovered, today, that the beigey background gradient image is being set in the .tmpl file insteadof one of the CSS files. It seems to me that this sort of thing should be in theCSS so it's more easily overidden.

Am I missing something?

-- VickiBrown - 11 Nov 2006

The gradient has a dynamic path to the pub directory, so it cannot be in a static css file. At least not for the distribution of TWiki; you are free to choose if you do want to use absolute urls in a css file.

You can also override the template settings with USERSTYLEURL, see PatternSkin Css Cookbook for help.

-- ArthurClemens - 11 Nov 2006

Hi Arthur, at my site the tipsOfTheDay are not shown correctly, we can just see the first line in WebLeftBar in Firefox Browsers. I had a look at your style css and try to make adjustments to height from 1% to 100% but it it didn't work at all. For now we have disabled the adjustment to height and padding.

line 336:
#patternLeftBar .tipsOfTheDayContents {
        /* padding:.25em .25em .5em .25em; */
        /* height:1%; */ /* or Win IE won't display a background */
        overflow:hidden;
}

I have checked this with IE5.5, IE6.0, Firefox 1.5.0.(6-8) and Firefox 2.0 and it worked for us.

-- ThomasFreudenberg - 13 Nov 2006

Thanks, I will check.

-- ArthurClemens - 13 Nov 2006

I think there's a typo in PatternSkinCustomization:

Omit %TMPL:INCLUDE{"viewleftbar"}% to hide the left bar, or in a view template clear it using %TMPL:INCLUDE{"viewleftbar"}%%TMPL:END%

should read

Omit %TMPL:INCLUDE{"viewleftbar"}% to hide the left bar, or in a view template clear it using %TMPL:DEF{"viewleftbar"}%%TMPL:END%

-- MarcusLeonard - 22 Dec 2006

Thanks, I have updated the text in SVN.

-- ArthurClemens - 23 Dec 2006

This might show my ignorance of html, but here goes anyway.

I frequently use the TOC variable to create a table of contents for my topic at the top of my page. However with large topics the TOC completely dominates the top of the display.

Is there anyway in PatternSkin to do something where the TOC takes the top rightmost section of the page for a fixed width, and then rest of the topic is on the left and flows around the TOC??

To me this would be an incredibly valuable feature.

-- JohnCavanaugh - 29 Dec 2006

Potentially it could. Write:

<div class="twikiRight">
%TOC%
</div>
<br class="twikiClear" />

But you will notice with large TOCs that a large gap will appear at the left. If you remove the clear linebreak, the toc will run over the h2 headlines. It will depend on your situation which one you prefer.

-- ArthurClemens - 29 Dec 2006

Arthur, thanks, that is pretty cool. It is almost what Im looking for. I tend to use h2, h3 & h4 exclusively and dont use h1 at all, so that means the horizontal lines/shading from the headers run thru the TOC. Is there any way to make the background of the TOC be white or something that would prevent this.

Maybe a future generation of PatternSkin will have some type of topright "box" capability where folks could put a toc or other "related" links or something. That would be really cool...

-- JohnCavanaugh - 30 Dec 2006

you can always write in a topic (or in a USERCOLORURL style topic, see PatternSkinCustomization):

<style type="text/css" media="all">
.twikiToc {background:#fff;}
</style>

-- ArthurClemens - 30 Dec 2006

If I install the latest version of PatternSkin in a TWiki 4.0.4. (VM Debian) would it cause any issues? Does it support Dakar AND Edinburgh releases? Thanks!

• Yes, it will cause issues with TablePlugin and TwistyPlugin. I guess you will be fine if you update those as well, together with TwistyContrib. But please make a backup first. -- ArthurClemens - 28 Feb 2007

-- MiloValenzuela - 28 Feb 2007

Thanks for your reply Arthur. I think I'm going to wait for the next version of VM.

-- MiloValenzuela - 03 Mar 2007

I slightly altered patternskin and I'm using it through PublishContrib only for publishing. I'd like the WebIndicator? to display something other than "Public" which is the name of the web we're publishing. Is there a way I can alter that rather than renaming the web?

-- CorrinneFahl - 02 Apr 2007

Yes, have a look at templates/viewleftbar.pattern.tmpl, TMPL:DEF webleftbarindicator. But rather than changing it there you might want to create a new skin file that overrides webleftbarindicator - see TWiki.PatternSkinCustomization in your distribution.

-- ArthurClemens - 02 Apr 2007

There is a small error in templates/attach.pattern.tmpl, even here at twiki.org. If you have JavaScript disabled the "Help: Please see FileAttachment" link ends up in the wrong location. The href-parameter is just not given in the template. Copying the href-parameter from templates/attach.tmpl does also not work. I'm using now

href='%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%TWIKIWEB%/FileAttachment'

-- UlfJastrow - 10 Oct 2007

Thanks Ulf. The bug has persisted up to now, so your report is just in time for TWiki 4.2!

-- ArthurClemens - 10 Oct 2007

had to add

<br class="twikiClear" />

right after left bar divs in templates/viewleftbar.pattern.tmpl to solve the issues of the footer horizontal divider cutting the leftbar navigation prematurely for short pages.

-- KeWang - 23 Oct 2007

Hello,

do you know maybe where I can edit (which template I suppose) the defaut text that apprears in the text box where I edit the page content, after clicking the edit button?

Thanks

-- GrazynaGladys - 20 Feb 2008

The default text is defined by an edit template. The default edit template is TWiki.WebTopicEditTemplate. You can create a default edit template for each web by creating a topic WebTopicEditTemplate in that web. You can also create a different topic with the name ending on Template. The page "Create a new topic" will show that topic in the dropdown list.

-- ArthurClemens - 20 Feb 2008

Thanks Arthur. That works.

-- GrazynaGladys - 25 Feb 2008

Hey, is there any use for "text-overflow:ellipsis;" at style.css line 613? http://www.css4you.de/text-overflow.html

-- AlexanderBreuer - 14 Mar 2008

It is useful to clip long lines in the left bar.

-- ArthurClemens - 15 Mar 2008

Is this plugin compatible with the 4.2 twiki release? I cant seem to edit pages, there is no "save" button present in the ui, regardless of turning on or off wysiwyg editing. Is there a patch for the NatSkin?

-- ToddGrayson - 15 Mar 2008

Pattern skin is released with 4.2. But the current downloads on the skin page are outdated. So just use the version that is shipped.

-- ArthurClemens - 15 Mar 2008

Hi, PatternSkin doesnt work right @ Mozilla 1.7: Screenshot

-- AlexanderBreuer - 06 May 2008