Re: Re: Maybe a PLIP for portlets?

Hi there,
as far as i know, it is possible to render portlets like on your 
screenshot only with CSS.
This solution would then let you keep all zpt and py skins unmodified, 
and let you add and upgrade all products as you need to.

Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:

> Well, I was not clear. I'll try to explain my mind.
> If you look at the skin I've realized (screenshot at
> http://plone.org/Members/mbusico/sh1/image_view ) you can see that
> portlets are rendered inside a box with a three dimensional aspect.
> To obtain this I had to hack all and every portlet used in the plone 
> site.
> This is horrible because for every product change I have to change also
> the skin.
>
> I have seen that the portlets are rendered using the code inside the
> file portlets_fetcher.pt end more precisely with the code line:
>    <metal:block metal:use-macro="python:path(pathexpr)" />
> This should sound good because wrapping the graphic box around this
> instruction does the job without touching the portlets.
>
> But there is a problem: if a portlet is defined, but doesn't generate
> any output, you obtain an empty graphic box (really more empty boxes
> than useful boxes)
>
> So my question: how you can say inside portlets_fetcher.pt if a portlet
> generates any output?
>
> Regards
>    Mirto
>
> P.S. If you cannot access the screenshot, I'll send it to you. Or if you
> want to see it by yourself I can send you the whole skin
>
> Michael Zeltner wrote:
>
>> On 2004-05-11 10:19:42 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico 
>> <mbusico-+bmjRK/[email protected]> said:
>>
>>> Can we agree on a standard portlet behaviour?
>>
>>
>>
>> behaviour in what sense?
>>
>>> I propose: every portlets returns two parameters:
>>>     return code (if there is any output or not)
>>>     portlet string (the content that have to be rendered)
>>>
>>> So it be possible to test if the box have to be rendered or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> thats a wrong approach imo - it would be a lot cleaner if we would 
>> have the portlets defined as actions - you could set permissions and 
>> conditions on it. the only problem: how do you attach them to folders?
>>
>> joe and me thought we could attach it to the pagelets tool, but 
>> actually i don't think thats a good idea anymore.
>>
>> regards, michael
>
>
>


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David Convent



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