Question

Has anyone figured out a way to apply a skin to one particular window (or frame) and have it persist after clicking on a link?

For example, suppose I have set PatternSkin as my default skin for TWiki.org. Now from the Edit screen, I click on the "More formatting help" which pops up TextFormattingRules in a new window with the plain skin applied using "?skin=plain". However, if I then click on one of links in that window, the next page displayed with revert back to PatternSkin.

Anyone see a way around this?

Environment

-- LynnwoodBrown - 03 Aug 2004

Not sure why this was marked as ClosedUnanswered, but I'm changing it back to SupportStatus of AskedQuestions, because I also need to know how to accomplish this.

-- AdamSpiers - 01 Sep 2005

Answer

I'm hoping someone else will chip in here, but I'm trying to answer my own question anyway. First, some relevant links:

• PersistantPlainSkin
• SetSkinViaUrlPath

It looks like all (hopefully, or most) internal links are generated via TWiki::Render::internalLink(), so checking for a skin CGI parameter there and persisting it on existence would presumably do it. Unfortunately, internalLink() doesn't get passed the CGI query object though, so this would mean an interface change

-- AdamSpiers - 01 Sep 2005

Adam - you might take a look at UsingTopicToDefineCSS which has been implemented in DevelopBranch. It doesn't apply a skin in a window but does apply a style to a particular topic. I'm continuing to search for options HowToApplyPersistentSkinInWindow and suspect some other features in Dakar may provide a mechanism, but haven't had time to work on it. I'm glad someone else sees this need!

-- LynnwoodBrown - 01 Sep 2005

I just took a peak at TWikiKernel-DEVELOP-6231 and I see that everything has gone a lot more OO since CairoRelease. This is great news, because TWiki::Render::internalLink() is now a method acting on a TWiki::Render object which caches the CGI query object in it. So we can check for the presence of a skin CGI parameter after all - meaning it should be a simple code hack. The only problem is that it's going to be a big job to get our site install upgraded from Cairo, and I'm not sure it's even a good idea until Dakar is released.

-- AdamSpiers - 02 Sep 2005