[Architecture] Combining complex panels in the preferences framework

Mon Sep 9 12:57:36 UTC 2013

Hi Justin,

Thank you for the suggestion! Here are some conclusions I came across while
trying to configure it.

My desire was to omit the
keyEcho<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/html/speakTextCollectiveTemplate.html#L57-L60>part
in the collective template and instead load its html markup using
resources and container.append().
By the way here<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/js/speakTextCollectivePanel.js#L21-L23>
any
name other than "template:" would result in an Uncaught TypeError. When
trying to load it with
fluid.fetchResources<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/js/speakTextCollectivePanel.js#L112-L116>
 the way you suggested<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/js/speakTextCollectivePanel.js#L145>,
the panel's container is just doubled -
apparently that.options.resources.template.resourceText represents the
current (big) html container. This could also be seen by checking this
hook<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/js/speakTextCollectivePanel.js#L141>
in
the console.
Appending the keyEcho html section
this<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/blob/divide-and-conquer/src/shared/adjusters/js/speakTextCollectivePanel.js#L146>
ugly
way is successful, but it is never actually shown and rendered. Perhaps
it's a timig issue.

You could checkout this
branch<https://github.com/radmanovi4/prefsEditors/tree/divide-and-conquer>
in
my repo and have a better look at it.
Let me know if there is any progress!

Thanks,
Alexander

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> You may have come upon another limitation, but perhaps there is a way
> around. The templates block in the options can take in multiple resources
> e.g.
>
> resources: {
> keyEchoTemplate: {},
> wordEchoTemplate: {}
> }
>
> Although I'm not sure how this is handled by the renderer. So you'll have
> to try it out and see how things go.
>
> It seems that my example worked because the templates were already
> combined. If the above suggestion doesn't work, you could manually insert
> the fetched templates into the DOM, which should allow the renderer to see
> it. In the above example you would find the template markup at
> "that.options.resources.keyEchoTemplate.resourceText" and
> "that.options.resources.wordEchoTemplate.resourcetext". You can insert it
> into the DOM with something like jQuery's append.
>
> You can see something similar from UIO.
>
> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/UIOptions.js#L416
>
> However, that being said you might run into issues with the auxiliary
> schema, as it's probably not setup to accept multiple templates for a
> single component.
>
> Let me know if you have any more thoughts and/or expectations for how
> you'd like this to all work.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
> On 2013-09-02, at 8:45 AM, Alexander Milchev <amilchev at asteasolutions.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Anastasia,
>
> Thank you for the reply, but I'm afraid you got me wrong. Perhaps I should
> explain myself better.
>
> My ambition is to break a bigger panel so that each piece has its own
> template.
> The question is relevant to the grade merging, discussed previously in
> this thread. I've been working on the Speak Text adjuster group and I tried
> to merge these<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L1-L33> two
> panels into this big one<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L35-L43>,
> as Justin suggested. The important part of the auxSchema is that both
> adjusters' panels' type is the big panel (keyEcho<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L12>,
> wordEcho <https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L22>)
> and all this<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L13-L15> information
> is overwritten by the last defined<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L23-L25>,
> so these<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L8-L11> selectors
> are looked for in this<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L23> template,
> instead of the appropriate one<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L13>
> .
>
> Is there an elegant way to work around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Chris Petsos <cpetsos at certh.gr> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Alexander,
>>
>> I don't know if this is what you need, but in my version of PMT the "big
>> panel" is here<https://github.com/chrispetsos/prefsEditors/blob/master/src/pmt/html/PMTUIOptions.html>and all the "sub-panels" are
>> here<https://github.com/chrispetsos/prefsEditors/tree/master/src/shared/lib/infusion/components/uiOptions/html>(e.g. magnifier-follows, magnifier-position etc.) separate from each other.
>> This is something that is supported out-of-the-box in UIO. You'll get a
>> feeling of how it's being done if you browse the code a bit. Feel free to
>> ask if you have any questions. I don't know if some specialized grade
>> merging is needed for that; or are you trying to perform something more
>> sophisticated?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>> On 09/02/2013 03:26 PM, Alexander Milchev wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Anastasia,
>>
>>  Thank you for the reply, but I'm afraid you got me wrong. Perhaps I
>> should have explained myself better.
>>
>>  My ambition is to break a bigger panel so that each piece has its own
>> template.
>> The question is relevant to the grade merging, discussed previously in
>> this thread. I've been working on the Speak Text adjuster group and I tried
>> to merge these<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L1-L33> two
>> panels into this<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L35-L43> big
>> one, as Justin suggested. The important part of the auxSchema is that both
>> adjusters' panels' type is the big panel (keyEcho<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L12>
>> , wordEcho<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L22>)
>> and all this<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L13-L15> information
>> is overwritten by the last defined<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L23-L25>,
>> so these<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410696#file-example-js-L8-L11> selectors
>> are looked for in this<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L23> template,
>> instead of the appropriate one<https://gist.github.com/radmanovi4/6410711#file-example2-js-L13>
>> .
>>
>>  Is there an elegant way to work around this?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Cheetham, Anastasia <acheetham at ocadu.ca
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 2013-08-30, at 9:43 AM, Alexander Milchev wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi everyone,
>>> >
>>> > I tried out the grade merging today and a question popped up.
>>> >
>>> > It seemed to me that no more than one html template could be shared
>>> between multiple users of the same panel. This would be the template of the
>>> adjuster, defined last in the auxSchema. For instance (in Justin's
>>> example), if the auxSchema relates the big panel
>>> "fluid.uiOptions.panels.linksControls" to both emphasizeLinks and
>>> imputsLarger adjusters and imputsLarger is defined second, then info for
>>> template, container and message for emphasizeLinks is neglected and
>>> overwritten by those of imputsLarger.
>>> >
>>> > Does this mean that all templates must be stuffed in one big html file
>>> (hope it doesn't) and how can the templates be apportioned properly?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Alexander
>>>
>>>  Hi, Alexander,
>>>
>>> It's possible I'm not quite understanding your question, and if so,
>>> please forgive me. But it is certainly possible for each panel to have its
>>> own template.
>>>
>>> The auxiliary schema for the starter panels shows how this is done:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js
>>>
>>> The root part of the schema defines the template that will contain all
>>> of the panels:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js#L34
>>> This template contains an empty div for each panel.
>>>
>>> The root part of the schema also defines a root directory for the
>>> individual panels:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js#L33
>>>
>>> Each of the panel blocks specifies its own template relative to the root
>>> directory:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js#L45
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js#L66
>>>
>>> https://github.com/fluid-project/infusion/blob/master/src/components/uiOptions/js/StarterSchemas.js#L87
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> (It isn't necessary to use the root directory prefix, that's just
>>> something you can use if it's helpful.)
>>>
>>> Alexander, does this answer your question, or am I confused?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anastasia Cheetham     Inclusive Design Research Centre
>>> acheetham at ocadu.ca           Inclusive Design Institute
>>>                                         OCAD University
>>>
>>>
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