[pmwiki-users] Re: Note to skin designers

[V.Krishn]

This is certainly a desirable feature. :) Thanks. 
Would try asap to update notebook/2 skins accordingly.
~V.Krishn

On Saturday 19 February 2005 16:22, pmichaud at pobox.com wrote:
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>
> The changes I made are designed to make it much easier to enable/disable
> sections of a skin template.  For example, a number of sites have asked to
> be able to "turn off" the sidebar when editing a page (to provide more
> editing space), and several skin designers will tell you that this
> has indeed been a pain.  With the new setup, a wiki administrator
> (or skin designer) can simply do:
>
>     if ($action == 'edit') SetTmplSection('PageLeftFmt', 0);
>
> to cause the PageLeftFmt section (containing the sidebar) to be
> suppressed in the output.  Similarly, one can do
>
>     if (!PageExists(FmtPageName('$Group.SideBar', $pagename)))
>       SetTmplSection('PageLeftFmt', 0);
>
> to display the left sidebar only if the $Group.SideBar page exists.
>
> The new code also allows skin designers to create template sections
> in addition to the ones predefined by PmWiki such as PageLeftFmt,
> PageTitleFmt, etc.  For example, a skin designer can now define sections
> such as <!--PageTopMenuFmt--> or <!--PageCommandsFmt--> and have them
> automatically appear in the output and be switchable using the
> SetTmplSection() function above.  Previously this was possible
> only by adding the additional desired sections names into the
> $BasicLayoutVars array, which was a bit of a pain.
>
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> Pm