Wow, way cool. Short of having an option to set the color/background in the edit page, this is great since I'm a Gemini user.
Hans wrote: > Friday, November 23, 2007, 8:37:56 AM, Dr Fred C wrote: > > >> Thanks, Clear as mud. But I guess I can work with it when I get around >> to opening up the relevant local config, editing it, then opening my ftp >> program, etc, etc. Then to make it workable for all my sites, I'll have >> to do the same to about 5 or 10 other local configs. >> > > >> I've been out of the programming loop for quite some time. It is a >> lot of trouble to make this into a backgroundpage cookbook recipe that >> one might easily add to one's cookbook folders and then just add a >> single line to local config? >> > > No, it is not. But there are two problems: > > 1. What do you want exactly? I assumed a background for the whole > page, for the whole browser window, not just for the page content, > excluding header and side bar regions etc. Is this correct? > And shall the background image also cover things like searchbox, > buttons, and dividing lines? > > 2. The solution will be necessarily highly skin dependant. I did not > know you used the Gemini skin. The markup I gave fits for the > PmWiki skin, but not the Gemini skin. So any solution providing a very > simple markup for your use in any page will need to be tailored to a > particular skin. > > The markup provided in Cookbook/BackgroundImages under section 'markup' > is more general, as it allows setting of a background image to any > division one chooses. So it can fit for any skin, but one needs to > know of course to which HTML division the background image shall > apply. > > As a skin designer, I would like to offer a skin option for a transparent > background for all page layout areas, so a background image can be > shown. I've done this for the Triad skin: it has a 'transparent' color > scheme as a style option. But the background image is set in a css file. > I will develop this further, so one can set a page background for the > 'transparent' style option from within a page, probably with a markup > like (:theme transparent background=http:/domain/path/image.jpg:) > > The skin has already a (:theme ... :) markup (Gemini as well) which > allows setting a colour scheme for an individual page. I think this > could be expanded to include background images. I will pursue this and > keep you informed. > > > > ~Hans > > > > -- Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
