Re: [webmin-l] Modifying Webmin UI frameset for a module under development

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 27/Sep/2014 08:26 dl <dl....@nt...> wrote ..
> If I wish to add extra frame(s) to the existing UI frameset (e.g. in 
> gray-theme/index.cgi and other such themes) for a module under development.
> 
> I find from initial UI experiments that I may have to search through the 
> entire Webmin directory to change ..
> 
> frames[0] .. to frames['left']
> frames[1] .. to frames['right']
> 
> Is this finding correct?
> 
> Otherwise the rendered frames do not map correctly to src links.
> 
> The intended frame 'topbar' is planned to provide a Webmin workflow for 
> usage of Webmin functions in batch modes.

Adding a top bar sounds cool (and indeed some really old themes did this),
but I don't see why it would require changing code outside of the theme
directory itself. What other files did you have to change?

> While on the subject why not in some later release switch to div 
> containers throughout instead of using framesets?

A couple of themes that work this way are under development, but it is
tricky because all the module code assumes that URLs are relative to the
module sub-directory. Which isn't the case if a div is being used.