[xwiki-dev] [help] XWiki-Eclipse-Plugin

[Stéphane Laurière]

Hi Asiri,

Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/4/07, *Vincent Massol* <vincent at massol.net 
> <mailto:vincent at massol.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Asiri,
> 
>     On Jul 4, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>     On 7/4/07, * Artem Melentyev* <melenartem at ya.ru
>>     <mailto:melenartem at ya.ru>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi.
>>
>>         tharindu jayasuriya wrote:
>>
>>         > Ideally we should have the browser output (output_view_1.png)
>>         without the
>>         > navigation panel. We're currently stuck here unable to make a
>>         decision or
>>         > find an alternative method. So, any help would be really
>>         appreciated.
>>
>>         I think xwiki print preview mode is suited for eclipse view mode.
>>         (ex: http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?xpage=print&
>>         <http://localhost:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/?xpage=print&>)
>>
>>
>>     Nice.. :)
>>
>>     I wonder if this is ok with others.
> 
>     I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. Why shouldn't the
>     page be rendered without the surrounding layout? I'd prefer with it
>     because then I can know if my page looks nice or not, if I need to
>     resize my images to smaller sizes or not, if my code is impacting
>     somehow the panels or vice-versa, etc. 
> 
> 
> If this is desirable, everything is ok. I thought it was a waste of 
> space (in the browser widget) to display the navigation panels (html) 
> which is redundant since the user can always navigate through his 
> documents via XWiki Navigator (the tree view inside eclipse). Anyway, I 
> now realized that it might not allow the user to see if his markup 
> affects the navigation panel.
> 
> Better yet, we might provide both views in the view area using a toggle 
> button, so that user might switch to print view (without navigation 
> panels in the page) if he so desires. will this be ok ?

as a user, I'd love to have both views indeed!

Cheers

Stéphane


>     WDYT?
> 
>>     But there is a small issue, when we move into implementing the
>>     off-line editing mode, we'll definitely have to render the content
>>     within the local machine. I wonder if this can be accomplished
>>     somehow. Can such a rendering library used within XWiki be
>>     embedded in our eclipse-plugin ?
> 
>     I'd suggest you don't do offline rendering in a first
>     implementation, i.e. you only show the wiki syntax view of a
>     document but not it's rendering. The rendering is only performed
>     when online. 
> 
> 
> This clears up a lot of things, thanks a lot :-)
> 
> - Asiri
> 
>     Thanks
>     -Vincent