This page is NOT documentation of the UI Options API. It is a working document. The UI Options API is currently undergoing revision, and there is no API documentation as yet.

This page presents a proposal for a new API for User Interface Options. It lays out what we would like to expect of an integrator.

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Guiding Principles

A schema exists to define the settings, their defaults, ranges, etc.
Any options that might be set should be top-level.
- Option names should make sense.
Integrators should not have to create both a page enhancer and the fat panel individually; If they want the fat panel, the page enhancer would be assumed and should be instantiated on the page automatically.
Integrators should be able to create a page enhancer without UIO (in the case of a full-page UIO available elsewhere, through a link).

The options shown here represent the minimal options that an integrator would have to provide. Other options will also be available.

Basic API

UIO Only

fluid.uiOptions(container, {
    gradeNames: [<gradenames of desired panels>,
                 <gradenames of schema for settings>],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/"
});

Page Enhancer Only

fluid.pageEnhancer({
    gradeNames: [<grade names of desired enactors>,
                 <gradenames of schema for settings>],
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

UIO + Page Enhancer

fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: [<gradenames of desired panels>,
                 <grade names of desired enactors>,
                 <gradenames of schema for settings>],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

If no grade names are specified, the default state of the components would be no panels, no settings. It's unlikely anyone would ever use it without grade names.

Use Case: 2nd Parties (Infusion-provided "starter-set" of panels and settings)

Add the "starter-set" of panels and settings included in Infusion using the starter grades.

UIO Only

fluid.uiOptions(container, {
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiOptions.starterSettings"],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/"
});

NOTE: The starterSettings grade combines the grades for the starter panels and the starter schema.

Page Enhancer Only

fluid.pageEnhancer({
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiEnhancer.starterSettings],
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

NOTE: The starterSettings grade combines the grades for the starter enactors and the starter schema.

UIO + Page Enhancer

fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiOptions.starterSettings"],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

NOTE: The starterSettings grade combines the grades for the starter enactors, panels and schema.

QUESTION: What should we name this/these combined grades?

Use Case: 3rd Parties Adding Panels To The Starter Set

Note: 3rd parties will have to define their own grades for new settings, panels, enactors.

Note: All further examples will only use the "UIO + Page Enhancer" version: fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(). The pattern holds.

/**
 * Define a grade for the schema for your settings
 */
fluid.defaults("my.extra.settingsSchema", {
    schema: {...}
});
/**
 * Define a grade for extra panels
 * and their default settings
 */
fluid.defaults("my.extra.panels", {
    components: {
        foofer: {
            funcName: "my.integration.fooferPanel",
            options: {
                // if necessary:
                template: "myFooferPanel.html"
                // why can't panels load their own templates?
            }
            // any other configuration as necessary
        },
        doodle: {
            funcName: "my.integration.doodlePanel",
            options: {
                template: "myDoodlePanel.html"
                // if necessary
            }
            // any other configuration as necessary
        }
    }
});
/**
 * Define a grade for extra enactors
 */
fluid.defaults("my.extra.enactors", {
    components: {
        foofer: {
            funcName: "my.integration.fooferEnactor",
            // any other configuration as necessary
        },
        doodle: {
            funcName: "my.integration.doodleEnactor",
            // any other configuration as necessary
        }
    }
});
/**
 * A grade that combines my enactors, panels and schema.
 */
fluid.defaults("my.extra.settings", {
    gradeNames: ["my.extra.enactors",
                 "my.extra.panels",
                 "my.extra.settingsSchema"]
});
/**
 * Add the enactors, panels and schema
 */
fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiOptions.starterSettings",
                 "my.extra.settings"],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

Alternatively, the extra grades could be added using demands:

fluid.demands("fluid.uiOptions", ["my.integrations"], {
    gradeNames: ["my.extra.settings"],
});
fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiOptions.starterSettings"],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

Use Case: 3rd Parties Wanting A Subset Of The Starter Set

There are three possible ways to do this:

Cut-and-paste: Copy the code that defines the "starter" grades, rename the grades, delete the parts you don't want, and use these new grades instead of the starter grades (not really recommended).
Empty subcomponents: Use the starter grades and override the excluded subcomponents with fluid.emptySubcomponent
Individual grades: Use the individual settings grades desired instead of the starter set.

The last two of these methods will be shown here, excluding the colour-and-contrast setting and the layout setting.

Empty Subcomponents

fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: ["fluid.uiOptions.starterSettings"],

    components: {
        // Override the settings panels
        contrast: {
            type: "fluid.emptySubcomponent"
        },
        layoutControls: {
            type: "fluid.emptySubcomponent"
        },

        // Override the enactors
        theme: {
            type: "fluid.emptySubcomponent"
        },
        tableOfContentsEnactor: {
            type: "fluid.emptySubcomponent"
        }
    }

    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

Individual Grades

fluid.defaults("my.panelSet", {
    gradeNames: [
        // Specify each of the four desired panels directly
        "fluid.uiOptions.textSizer",
        "fluid.uiOptions.lineSpacer",
        "fluid.uiOptions.textFont",
        "fluid.uiOptions.linksControls",
        
        // Specify each of the four desired enactors directly
        "fluid.uiEnhancer.textSizer",
        "fluid.uiEnhancer.lineSpacer",
        "fluid.uiEnhancer.textFont",
        "fluid.uiEnhancer.linksControls",
        
        // Use the full schema
        "fluid.uiOptions.starterSettingsSchema"
    ]
});
fluid.uiOptionsPlusPageEnhancer(container, {
    gradeNames: ["my.panelSet"],
    pathToTemplates: "my/sites/lib/infusion/templates/",
    pathToTocTemplate: "my/sites/",
    siteThemeClassName: "foofer-doodle-theme"
});

Use Case: 4th Parties (users of customized UIOs)

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