This is the supplemental plugin for the NatSkin. Its main purpose is to supply
"skin states" to control different styles and variants to be switched
dynamically while you are online. See the below for a full list of all
provided features.
This plugin tries to be maximal compatible with all past, current and upcoming
TWiki releases, namely Beijing, Cairo and Dakar (aka TWiki-4.x). Therefore some
mechanisms have been internalized that are only available since TWiki-4.0.
The plugin tries to be interface-compatible to all engines using
the Func.pm API. In those cases where this is not possible, because needed
functions are not part of the Func.pm API, access functions have been added
to address the different implementations and incompatibilities (e.g. access to
topic meta data). In the future a sensible part of that will be moved over to
the TWiki:Plugins/DakarContrib package and be used by the NatSkinPlugin and similar.
The documentation of the NatSkinPlugin only covers the additional tags that have
been implemented. Have a look at the NatSkin topic for more information.
This plugin is inspired by the TWiki:Plugins/GnuSkin by
TWiki:Main/JoachimNilsson and the TWiki:Plugins/PhotonSkin by
TWiki:Main/EstebanManchado (PhotonSearch) renamed to natsearch .
Syntax
CURREV
Syntax: %CURREV%
returns the current topic revision (compatible among all TWiki engines)
see also:
NATMAXREV,
NATREVISIONSPREVREV,
GETSKINSTYLE
Syntax: %GETSKINSTYLE%
get the current skin style; the priority is
display the then or else argument depending on the access rights of the current user
to the topic <topic>.
action can be view, change or rename
specifying the requested access mode;
mode can be text or include where text conditionally renders the text in
the then and else arguments and text includes the topic in then or else;
if then is not specified in include mode then <topic> is included if access
is granted;
Example: %IFACCESS{"AdminSideBar" mode="include"}% includes the
AdminSideBar if the current user has view access to this topic
IFSKINSTATE
Syntax: %IFSKINSTATE{<tests> then="..." else="..."}%
conditionally returns content depending on the current skin state;
<tests> can be
style="<name>": test if the current style is <name>
variation="<name>": test if the style variation is <name>
border="on,off,thin": test if the current border is on, off or "thin"
buttons="on,off": test if the web buttons are currently on or off
sidebar="left,right,off": test if the sidebar is currently on the right, left or off
searchbox="top,pos1,pos2,pos3,off": test if the searchbox is currently on given position or off
release="beijing,cairo,dakar": test if the twiki release this plugin is installed on is Beijing, Cairo or Dakar
action="view,edit,preview,...": test the current topic action
glue="on,off": control wether to eat surrounding whitespaces or not
final="<name>": test if a skin state variable called <name> is set to be changeable or not using the the FINALPREFERENCES setting; known names are are "style", "sidebar", "buttons", "border", "variation" or "searchbox"; "all" tests wether you can vary the skin at all; "switches" tests of you can change at least one of "sidebar", "buttons", "border" or "searchbox"
The tag will render the "then" content if all tests evaluate to true and
the "else" content otherwise. Tested strings can be regular expressions.
This is the multi-line version of IFSKINSTATE that uses the
same tests as above but takes the content from between the sections; thus,
arbitrary TWikiML might be rendered conditionaly. IFSKINSTATETHEN
expressions can be nested safely. Within a single IFSKINSTATETHEN the
ELSIFSKINSTATE parts can be repeated arbitrarily. Before rendering the
<then|elsif|else condition> any $nop string will be removed first.
Thereby nested TWikiML expressions can be prevented from being expanded in
advance.
KNOWNSKINSTYLES
Syntax: %KNOWNSKINSTYLES%
render a list of all known skin styles being attachted to the NatSkin topic
KNOWNVARIATIONS
Syntax: %KNOWNVARIATIONS%
render a list of all known styles variations being attachted to the NatSkin topic
NATLOGON
Syntax: %NATLOGON%
displays Logon|Register for TWikiGuest, and
TWikiGuest|Logout otherewise
NATMAXREV
Syntax: %NATMAXREV%
substitute for %MAXREV% which differes all too much on Beijing, Cairo
and Dakar. This version grants to behave the same.
NATREVISIONS
Syntax: %NATREVISIONS%
substitute for the %REVISIONS% tag which only works on
the TWiki:Plugins/PatternSkin.
PREVREV
Syntax: %PREVREV%
returns the previous topic revision taking NumberOfRevisions into account
USERACTIONS
Syntax: %USERACTIONS%
display Edit|Attach|Move|Raw|Diffs|More when
logged in and an empty string for TWikiGuest
WEBCOMPONENT
Syntax: %WEBCOMPONENT{"name"}%
display a web component. A web component "MyComponent" is searched looking for
MyComponent in the current web,
TWikiMyComponent in the Users web,
TWikiMyComponent in the TWiki web and
MyComponent in the TWiki web.
The WEBCOMPONENT tag will retrieve the component where it was found
first. Thereby every web can define a component of its own but if it is
not defined locally a predefined component will be returned. Components
can be predefined in the Users and the TWiki where the name
of the component is prefix with "TWiki" to distinguish them from the
local web components that may be present in the Users and the TWiki.
As a last resort the local components of the TWiki are used.
By default the NatSkin comes with predefined components
Syntax: %WEBLINK{web="..." name="..."}%
display a link to a WebHome with the given name and add the SITEMAPUSEDTO description to
to the hover balloon
WIKIRELEASENAME
Syntax: %WIKIRELEASENAME%
returns "beijing", "cairo" or "dakar" depending on the TWiki engine this plugin is installed on
Plugin Settings
Below are the settings which affect the behavior of the NatSkin.
Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Supplements the bare bones NatSkin theme for TWiki
Skin state configuration
The skin state is controlled by a set of variables that are configured on the user's home topic,
the WebPreferences or the TWiki.TWikiPreferences and are then loaded into the current
session of the user. So every setting can be changed by an url parameter to take effect for the
duration of the user session. The default values are given below
switch to the given style, Base, Clean, GeorgiaBlue, Gettysburg, Independence, Kubrick, Pattern, PlainJane, Rusty, SeaGreen, Squash or Stormy, url param is style
Set SKINSTYLE = Clean
switch to the given style variation (PlasticLove, Subway, OrangeTunnel etc) or none, url param is stylevariation
Set STYLEVARIATION = none
change the border decoration on, off or to thin (enabling a thin blog-like page layout), url param is styleborder
Set STYLEBORDER = off
switch on/of the web buttons in the top bar of the page, url param is stylebuttons
Set STYLEBUTTONS = off
switch the sidebar to be displayed on the right or left side or off, url param is stylesidebar
Set STYLESIDEBAR = left
switch the searchbox to be displayed in the topbar (top), at the top of the sidebar (pos1), in the middle of the sidebar (pos2), at the bottom of the sidebar (pos3) or off, url param is stylessearchbox
Set STYLESSEARCHBOX = top
In addition, there's a url parameter togglesidebar that disables the sidebar for this request
only.
To emulate the Kubrick style on the old
BinaryBonsai (not the new K2 style) then copy-paste this
These attributes will be loaded into your session and thereby overwriting any
default settings on the TablePlugin topic. Depending on the skin style you are currently
using these settings will be changed accordingly.
Set BASETABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="white" headercolor="black" headerbg="white" tableborder="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
Set CLEANTABLEATTRIBUTES = headercolor="#444444"
Set GEORGIABLUETABLEATTRIBUTES = headercolor="#999966"
Set GETTYSBURGTABLEATTRIBUTES = headercolor="#03366"
Set INDEPENDENCETABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="white #f0f0f0" headercolor="white"
Set KUBRICKTABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="#f4f4f4, white" headercolor="#0055aa"
Set PLAINJANETABLEATTRIBUTES = headercolor="#666666"
Set RUSTYTABLEATTRIBUTES = headercolor="white"
Set SEAGREENTABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="white, #f0f0f0" headercolor="white"
Set SQUASHTABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="white, #f0f0f0" headercolor="white"
Set STORMYTABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="#333333, #444444" headercolor="#cccccc" headerbackground="black" headerbg="black"
Set PATTERNTABLEATTRIBUTES = databg="#f0f0f0, white" headercolor="#444444"
Email Obfuscation
The standard TWiki engine tries to obfuscate email addresses by adding a phrase to the email url (like NOSPAM)
to fool collecting web crawlers. But that is not adequate enough today as crawlers are aware of that. The solution
to that is to remove every trace of a pattern that could be an email address from the html source code and regenerate
them using javascript. Most likely, web crawlers will only parse the html and don't run a javascript interpreter
beforehand. Nevertheless the obfuscation feature can be switched on and off by adding the OBFUSCATEEMAIL variable
to your TWikiPreferences like
Set OBFUSCATEEMAIL = on
WysiwygPlugin support
When the TWiki:Plugins/WysiwygPlugin is installed on your QBFreak.net installation
the "Edit" topicaction can be enabled to start the Kupu wysiwyg html editor instead of the
normal TWiki textarea by setting the USEWYSIWYG variable to "on" (in your TWikiGuest topic,
WebPreferences or TWikiPreferences)
Set USEWYSIWYG = off
By default this value is set to "off"
Plugin Installation Instructions
Install the plugins this one depends on (see below) of not done so already.
If you are installing this plugin on a TWiki release prior TWiki-4.0, then you need the TWiki:Plugins/SessionPlugin too.
(Dakar) Visit configure in your TWiki installation, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.
on TWiki.TWikiPreferences change the SKIN variable to "nat"; customize the default style adding the variables SKINSTYLE, STYLEBORDER, STYLEBUTTONS and STYLESIDEBAR (see NatSkin)
Optionally, run NatSkinPlugin_installer.pl to automatically check and install other TWiki modules that this module depends on. You can also do this step manually.
Alternatively, manually make sure the dependencies listed in the table below are resolved.
multiple errors in natsearch: always first look into the current web, even for a global search; default to local search, was global before, use g: to switch to global search explicitely; GO function searches in all webs; display number of hits; sort hit results in reverse chronological order
13 Mar 2006:
dont remove leading and trailing whitespaces from web components
11 Mar 2006:
removed MYSIDEBAR tag; new web component search path; new sidebar construction logic using WebLinks; docu restructuring; packaging using BuildContrib
22 Feb 2006:
removed GROUPSUMMARY, ALLUSERS and registrationHandle which where only used on the NatsWiki installation, moved into a plugin of its own; fixed initPlugin not to return 0, disable the plugin if not used with thet NatSkin on a per handler base
21 Feb 2006:
externalized the IFDEFINED family into a plugin of its own and added a new dependency for it
15 Feb 2006:
properly detect scripted mode on Dakar
14 Feb 2006:
moved FORMATLIST to TWiki:Plugins/FilterPlugin; added dependency on it; fixed uninitialized variables with perl-5.8.8; added escape chars to IFDEFINED; don't switch off using an atom skin
03 Feb 2006:
added escape chars (percnt, dollar) to IFACCESS to make it more useful; fixed detection of a Dakar engine; fixed default REDDOT in the MySideBarTemplate
26 Jan 2006:
docu fixes
23 Jan 2006:
fixed natlogn; fixed FORMATLIST to expandCommonVariables of the format result
09 Jan 2006:
removed local sandbox; added dependency on DakarContrib; added variable expansion to IFDEFINED; added cleanup code if the AliasPlugin is not installed; improved natsearch customization; w3c fixes in the MySideBarTemplate
06 Dec 2005:
switching off the plugin if the skin is not NatSkin
05 Dec 2005:
skin state variables respect FINALPREFERENCES settings; added WEBCOMPONENT
01 Dec 2005:
added tooltips to topic actions
29 Nov 2005:
fixed warning about using the deprecated endRenderingHandler on Dakar
23 Nov 2005:
added $nop to IFSKINSTATETHEN content
22 Nov 2005:
added support for the WysiwygPlugin; added custom templates for the BlackListPlugin's error messages
10 Nov 2005:
added switchvariation urlparam; work arround bug in Dakar (nested calls to getRenderedVersion()); fixed duplicate target/class in external links; improved MySideBarTemplate using Twisties
09 Nov 2005:
fixed wrong call to expandCommonVariables() ... doh
08 Nov 2005:
fixed use of uninitialized variables; https links to the same site are not external once
02 Nov 2005:
added OBFUSCATEEMAIL flag to switch off this feature
28 Oct 2005:
add searchbox and style variations to the skin state; configuring header art is now done using style variations; fixed the NatSkinStyleBrowser to only "stick" to changes; extended IFSKINSTATE to cover the new skin state variables
added switchstyle feature to cycle thru all installed skin styles
09 Oct 2005:
rewrite of skin state: support switching border, sidebar, webbuttons and style independently; rewrite of the email obfuscator; improved skin style browser
27 Sep 2005:
added conditional content tags IFSKINSTATE and IFDEFINED; added web button support
30 Aug 2005:
added external link detection; fixed IFSKINSTYLE; added style support for the TWiki:Plugins/TablePlugin