[xwiki-users] Retrieve list of skins

[Erin Schnabel]

On Fri, July 6, 2007 11:07 am, Nicolas Réau wrote:
> Hello !
>
> Is there a way to retrieve the list of available skins from the wiki? I
> know
> i can search the pages from XWiki.XWikiSkins class, but this way i don't
> retrieve the skins that are stored into a folder (like albatross,
> dodo..etc
> in XWiki). Is there a trick to get automatically the list of all the skins
> (those with a XWikiSkins object + those stored in a folder) ?
>
> It would be useful for example if you want to give the possibility to the
> user to choose his skin into a selectbox, without having to add manually
> each skin to the box, each time one skin is added.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Nicolas-
>
> PS: thanks Vincent for your quick answer about velocity-tools last time!
>

I am certainly prepared to be wrong (and probably am), but I think you'd
have to create a skin object that was based off of each filesystem skin..
(I think the DefaultSkin, for example, is based off of albatross..). So if
you made a FinchSkin, and a Dodo skin, etc., you'd get what you wanted.


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