I've taken a few minutes looking a bit more deeply at simile and it sounds cool! Nice idea to integrate that in XWiki :)
Pascal On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Although I was previously able to do a hack integration with Simile's > Exhibit and Xwiki, it was too heinous to actually live with. A cleaner > solution, using Xwiki's "skin extensions" for stylesheets and javascript > now > works. The "clean" solution required hosting my own copy of Exhibit based > on > checking out from the trunk the latest copy of "Exhibit." Hosting my own > copy of Exhibit seems to be problematic, as the version of Exhibit I > checked > out from svn/trunk has issues such as (1) a non-working minified jquery > that > needed to be replaced w/ original, and (2) portability issue on IE (see > below) on which I need help/advice. > > Here's my example of Xwiki/Exhibit integration: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents > Here's the original example from which above was derived: > http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html > > Xwiki Source Code: > Presidents< > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents?viewer=code> > Data used by example: > PresidentsSchemaJSON< > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/PresidentsSchemaJSON?xpage=plain > >, > PresidentsJSON< > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/PresidentsJSON?xpage=plain> > > Attached, because there's no easy way to view these, the contents of > XWiki.StyleSheetExtension[0] and XWiki.JavaScriptExtension[0] -- these are > objects attached to the underlying Xwiki document > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents which cause the > appropriate magic to happen in the header via calls to > $xwiki.ssx.use("$doc.fullName") and $xwiki.jsx.use("$doc.fullName"). > > It's all explained in the preamble for > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/Presidents?viewer=code : > > > ## Note that to get this whole thing working requires jquery NOT FROM > > EXHIBIT SVN TRUNK > > ##( http://nielsmayer.com/js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js ) > > ## Instead, preload > > > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js > > ## for details see > > > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js.README > > $xwiki.jsfx.use("js/exhibit/api/scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js")## > > ## Note that > > > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/exhibit/api/exhibit-api.jsdifferent > > ## to trunk http://nielsmayer.com/js/exhibit/api/exhibit-api.js > > $xwiki.jsfx.use("js/exhibit/api/exhibit-api.js")## > > ## though > > > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/resources/js/Simile/Exhibit/webapp/styles.cssworksthe > line below does not: > > ##$xwiki.ssfx.use("js/simile/Exhibit/webapp/styles.css")##same loaded > from > > XWiki.StyleSheetExtension[0] via ssx.use. > > $xwiki.ssx.use("$doc.fullName")## > > $xwiki.jsx.use("$doc.fullName")## > > > ------------ > > ISSUE AND REQUEST FOR HELP: > > In IE, after the simile busy-spinner has popped up indicating a successful > load of Exhibit, the following errors happen, causing three successive > dialog boxes: > > (1) "Caught exception: ColorCoder: Error processing configuration of coder > Details: 'firstChild.nodeValue' is null or not an object > > (2) Caught exception: undefined > Details: 'firstChild.nodeValue' is null or not an object > > (3) IE error: Line 1831, char 52, Error: object expected > > Suggestions on which version of "Exhibit" or "Simile-Ajax-API" to use in > order to get rid of this error would be appreciated. It is interesting to > note that the "trunk" version of the same example > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.htmlworks > fine in IE. > > Is this the same issue noted previously: > http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widg...@googlegroups.com/msg00385.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widg...@googlegroups.com/msg00391.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/simile-widg...@googlegroups.com/msg00846.html? > ?? > ---------- > > TODO: > > One last remaining hack is that I put the following in the headers > > > <link rel="exhibit/data" type="application/json" > > href="$xwiki.getURL("Exhibit.PresidentsSchemaJSON","view","xpage=plain")" > /> > > <link rel="exhibit/data" type="application/json" > > href="$xwiki.getURL("Exhibit.PresidentsJSON","view","xpage=plain")" /> > > > via the "Exhibit" space's "HTTP Meta Information" administration setting ( > > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/admin/Exhibit/WebPreferences?editor=spaceadmin§ion=Presentation&space=Exhibit > ). > I would like to figure out a way to set these values directly in > javascript inside the document itself (or inside additional instances of > XWiki.JavaScriptExtension) rather than having them read as external json > files, e.g. > http://www.mail-archive.com/gene...@simile.mit.edu/msg02434.html > http://www.nabble.com/JSON-created-locally-td17507332.html > http://www.patrickgmj.net/node/161 > > -- Niels. > http://nielsmayer.com > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
