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-.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-
-Templates
-=========
-
-[WRITE ME]
-
-* talk about main templates, etc.
-
-
-
-Look at ``cubicweb/web/views/basetemplates.py`` and you will
-find the base templates used to generate HTML for your application.
-
-A page is composed as indicated on the schema below :
-
-.. image:: images/lax-book.06-main-template-layout.en.png
-
-In this section we will go through a couple of the primary templates
-you must be interested in, that is to say, the HTMLPageHeader,
-the HTMLPageFooter and the TheMainTemplate.
-
-
-HTMLPageHeader
---------------
-
-Customize header
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Let's now move the search box in the header and remove the login form
-from the header. We'll show how to move it to the left column of the application.
-
-Let's say we do not want anymore the login menu to be in the header, but we 
-prefer it to be in the left column just below the logo. As the left column is
-rendered by ``TheMainTemplate``, we will show how to do it in TheMainTemplate_. 
-
-First, to remove the login menu, we just need to comment out the display of the
-login component such as follows : ::
-
-  class MyHTMLPageHeader(HTMLPageHeader):
-    
-      def main_header(self, view):
-          """build the top menu with authentification info and the rql box"""
-          self.w(u'<table id="header"><tr>\n')
-          self.w(u'<td id="firstcolumn">')
-          self.vreg.select_component('logo', self.req, self.rset).dispatch(w=self.w)
-          self.w(u'</td>\n')
-          # appliname and breadcrumbs
-          self.w(u'<td id="headtext">')
-          comp = self.vreg.select_component('appliname', self.req, self.rset)
-          if comp and comp.propval('visible'):
-              comp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-          comp = self.vreg.select_component('breadcrumbs', self.req, self.rset, view=view)
-          if comp and comp.propval('visible'):
-              comp.dispatch(w=self.w, view=view)
-          self.w(u'</td>')
-          # logged user and help
-          #self.w(u'<td>\n')
-          #comp = self.vreg.select_component('loggeduserlink', self.req, self.rset)
-          #comp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-          #self.w(u'</td><td>')
-
-          self.w(u'<td>')
-          helpcomp = self.vreg.select_component('help', self.req, self.rset)
-          if helpcomp: # may not be available if Card is not defined in the schema
-              helpcomp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-          self.w(u'</td>')
-          # lastcolumn
-          self.w(u'<td id="lastcolumn">')
-          self.w(u'</td>\n')
-          self.w(u'</tr></table>\n')
-          self.template('logform', rset=self.rset, id='popupLoginBox', klass='hidden',
-                        title=False, message=False)
-
-
-
-.. image:: images/lax-book.06-header-no-login.en.png
-
-Let's now move the search box in the top-right header area. To do so, we will
-first create a method to get the search box display and insert it in the header
-table.
-
-::
-
- from ginco.web.views.basetemplates import HTMLPageHeader
- class MyHTMLPageHeader(HTMLPageHeader):
-    def main_header(self, view):
-        """build the top menu with authentification info and the rql box"""
-        self.w(u'<table id="header"><tr>\n')
-        self.w(u'<td id="firstcolumn">')
-        self.vreg.select_component('logo', self.req, self.rset).dispatch(w=self.w)
-        self.w(u'</td>\n')
-        # appliname and breadcrumbs
-        self.w(u'<td id="headtext">')
-        comp = self.vreg.select_component('appliname', self.req, self.rset)
-        if comp and comp.propval('visible'):
-            comp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-        comp = self.vreg.select_component('breadcrumbs', self.req, self.rset, view=view)
-        if comp and comp.propval('visible'):
-            comp.dispatch(w=self.w, view=view)
-        self.w(u'</td>')
-        
-        # logged user and help
-        #self.w(u'<td>\n')
-        #comp = self.vreg.select_component('loggeduserlink', self.req, self.rset)
-        #comp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-        #self.w(u'</td><td>')
-        
-        # search box
-        self.w(u'<td>')
-        self.get_searchbox(view, 'left')
-        self.w(u'</td>')
-
-        self.w(u'<td>')
-        helpcomp = self.vreg.select_component('help', self.req, self.rset)
-        if helpcomp: # may not be available if Card is not defined in the schema
-            helpcomp.dispatch(w=self.w)
-        self.w(u'</td>')
-        # lastcolumn
-        self.w(u'<td id="lastcolumn">')
-        self.w(u'</td>\n')
-        self.w(u'</tr></table>\n')
-        self.template('logform', rset=self.rset, id='popupLoginBox', klass='hidden',
-                      title=False, message=False)
-
-    def get_searchbox(self, view, context):
-        boxes = list(self.vreg.possible_vobjects('boxes', self.req, self.rset,
-                                                 view=view, context=context))
-        if boxes:
-            for box in boxes:
-                if box.id == 'search_box':
-                    box.dispatch(w=self.w, view=view)
-
- 
-
-
-HTMLPageFooter
---------------
-
-If you want to change the footer for example, look
-for HTMLPageFooter and override it in your views file as in : 
-::
-
-  form ginco.web.views.basetemplates import HTMLPageFooter
-  class MyHTMLPageFooter(HTMLPageFooter):
-      def call(self, **kwargs):
-          self.w(u'<div class="footer">')
-          self.w(u'This website has been created with <a href="http://lax.logilab.org">LAX</a>.')
-          self.w(u'</div>')
-
-Updating a view does not require any restart of the server. By reloading
-the page you can see your new page footer.
-
-
-TheMainTemplate
----------------
-.. _TheMainTemplate:
-
-The MainTemplate is a bit complex as it tries to accomodate many
-different cases. We are now about to go through it and cutomize entirely
-our application.
-
-TheMainTemplate is responsible for the general layout of the entire application. 
-It defines the template of ``id = main`` that is used by the application. Is 
-also defined in ``cubicweb/web/views/basetemplates.py`` another template that can
-be used based on TheMainTemplate called SimpleMainTemplate which does not have 
-a top section.
-
-.. image:: images/lax-book.06-simple-main-template.en.png
-
-CSS changes
------------
-
-We cannot modify the order in which the application is reading the CSS. In
-the case we want to create new CSS style, the best is to define it a in a new
-CSS located under ``myapp/data/``.
-
-If you want to modify an existing CSS styling property, you will have to use
-``!important`` declaration to override the existing property. The application
-apply a higher priority on the default CSS and you can not change that. 
-Customized CSS will not be read first.
-
-1
-[TODO]
-Add login menu in left column
-
-
-[WRITE ME]
-
-* customize MainTemplate and show that everything in the user
-  interface can be changed
-
-[TODO]
-Rajouter une section pour definir la terminologie utilisee.
-Dans ginco-doc rajouter une section pour cubciweb-ctl shell ou
-on liste les commandes dispos.