The direction of Textpattern 5

maverick · 2011-03-16 15:41:26

renobird wrote:

Could drag/drop or insert would work for anything other than inserting <txp:output_form form="" /> in a page template?
What would it do if you needed to use form= in an <txp:article> tag or a plugin.

re: drag and drop

imo, for a drag/drop interface to be useful it would ideally work in both contexts (ie be context sensitive). Whether that is possible or not . . . as I said – I’m intrigued by the idea, which several people have mentioned. But I realize something in theory and something in practice can be very different. :)

re: plugin

As for the plugin, my thought there is that it would be a simple plugin that would:

pop up a modal window showing a list of form names
let you select the form you want with a single click
insert it where ever your cursor is positioned with a double click

Thus it would work anytime you need to fill in a form=”“ attribute. Alternately, I suppose it could be set up to let you select the form and then actually insert the entire attribute form=“form_name”.

I wasn’t thinking about it creating the actual tag (eg as with the output tag). The tag builder does exactly that – builds the tag, and gives a list for form names. Though rather than inserting it, it builds the entire tag and you then copy/paste.

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mrdale · 2011-03-21 14:18:32

Hey,

I don’t think this old chestnut of a suggestion has been covered yet. Are we finally going table-less in txp 5? I was looking at doing an admin theme with a side-nav, which is not currently possible.

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Bloke · 2011-03-21 14:21:07

mrdale wrote:

Are we finally going table-less in txp 5?

Where appropriate, i.e. on pages that don’t lend themselves to tabular data (images for one…)

mrdale · 2011-03-21 15:03:10

Bloke wrote: Where appropriate, i.e. on pages that don’t lend themselves to tabular data (images for one…)

…but of course, sensei. ;)

Just talking about functional areas like navs, headers, footers, main areas, etc… I’d like to either make or commission a theme that feels more modern and OS like. I’m kinda diggin’ this kind of thing

maruchan · 2011-03-21 18:40:59

I’m kinda diggin’ this kind of thing

Crazy, I was just looking at that a couple days ago. I’ve been trying to get jmd_dashboard to do something similar, but at the moment am held up by the symlink issue.

I’d love to see more progress with the dashboard- and custom-admin-type stuff.

mrdale · 2011-03-21 20:36:11

maruchan wrote: but at the moment am held up by the symlink issue.

why don’t you try using .htacces redirects instead of a symlink…

RewriteRule ^maruchans_fruity_textpattern_install/?(.*)$ /textpattern/$1 [R=301,L]

[Axel] · 2011-03-30 16:11:41

I’ve played around with Admin themes for a while now, and found a problem (cant call it a bug) that lots of themes have in common.
If you add some <div> tags in the function header() you can easily close them in the function footer.
But on the login page the function footer is not in effect, hence to this there are some open tags that cant be closed.

I’m not aware of a workaround, so it would be cool to implement another function to close those tags.

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renobird · 2011-03-30 23:25:36

mrdale wrote:

Hey, I don’t think this old chestnut of a suggestion has been covered yet. Are we finally going table-less in txp 5? I was looking at doing an admin theme with a side-nav, which is not currently possible.

Hmm. Where have I seen a rough mockup of an admin that is very similar to TXP and has a side-nav? Table-less of course.

wink.

maverick · 2011-03-30 23:53:03

renobird wrote:

a rough mockup of an admin that is very similar to TXP and has a side-nav? Table-less of course.

That was my first thought when Mr. Dale posted, but I couldn’t remember what thread it was in. I really liked the looks then (and still do), and have hoped ever since it’d make it into the wild one of these days. :)

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mrdale · 2011-03-31 17:21:22

renobird wrote: rough mockup

heh… early onset alzheimers is my problem, I guess… my doG, that’s a great design.

Wanna take about 3 weeks and make that into an Admin theme?

Last edited by mrdale (2011-03-31 17:23:55)

lazyadmin · 2011-04-01 16:07:27

I’ve played around with Admin themes for a while now, and found a problem (cant call it a bug) that lots of themes have in common.
If you add some <div> tags in the function header() you can easily close them in the function footer.
But on the login page the function footer is not in effect, hence to this there are some open tags that cant be closed.

Any solutions here?

Last edited by lazyadmin (2011-04-01 16:09:09)

renobird · 2011-04-04 20:34:30

mrdale wrote:

Wanna take about 3 weeks and make that into an Admin theme?

Not sure I could do it with the existing TXP markup — at least not without rebuilding the entire write tab with JS.

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