Re: question about Smallwiki - smallwiki

28 Jul 2003

Michael,

I am glad to hear that you are planning to extend SmallWiki with new 
functionality!

...
  We are going to add the calendar to each User and make
it viewable and 
 updatable.  I was thinking about adding another navigation box on the 
 left hand side of the browser w/ functionality for accessing the 
 calendar. 
First of all you have to decide, if you want your calendar to have its 
own url and to behave like a wiki-page (1) or if you want it to be 
visible as part of the layout on each and every page (2); of course 
these two possibilities might also get combined.

1. With the first approach you basically create one or more subclasses 
of Structure. I imagine that you need one for the calendar and one for 
the events. You might want to have a look at the implementation of the 
message #processChild:, to get an idea how the urls are resolved and 
the nesting of the structures is handled.

To see how actions, security and structures work together, have a look 
inside the bundle 'SmallWiki Examples' where 'SmallWiki Example 
Glossary' will be the most interesting for you. I've just updated the 
latest code and bug-fixes to Cincom StORE.

2. If you want to go for the template solution, have a look at the 
examples 'SmallWiki Example RSS' and 'SmallWiki Example Statistic'. I 
am not sure if I should really suggest you to go with this solution, as 
I am thinking about dropping the templates and going for a plain 
CSS-Solution. Also note that the editing and configuration of templates 
is somehow tricky to implement.

Maybe you want to subscribe to the SmallWiki mailing-list at 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/cgi-bin/majordomo?module=modify to get the 
latest news and join the online discussions.

Hope that helps,
Lukas

On Montag, Jul 28, 2003, at 05:06 Europe/Zurich, Michael Baker wrote:

...
  Lukas,

 I am a student at UIUC (http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/cs497/ ) 
 taking a course in OOA&D w/ Ralph Johnson.  For our class project ( 
 http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs497rej/Calendar+feature+for+SmallWiki ) , my 
 partner and I are attempting to add calendar fuctionality ( like an 
 Outlook Calendar ) to your SmallWiki.
 We have completed the calendar classes, but are having trouble getting 
 started integrating it w/ SmallWiki.  We are going to add the calendar 
 to each User and make it viewable and updatable.  I was thinking about 
 adding another navigation box on the left hand side of the browser w/ 
 functionality for accessing the calendar.

 Can you provide some tips on integrating the calendar?  I have thought 
 that we will need new EditAction subclasses, a ViewAction subclasses, 
 a couple of Structure subclasses.  Also, I think we'll need to add a 
 few #acceptWhatever: methods to Visitor and the VisitorRendererHtml.

 Do you have any recommendations?
 Thanks in advance for your help!

 Michael Baker
 http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs497rej/Michael+Baker
 -- 
Lukas Renggli
http://renggli.freezope.org