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9/5/2007 5:42 AM

	Bassel Issa
55 posts

Creating Pane at runtime

Hi,

can a skinObject groups collection of panes. so if we registered this skinObject in a skin. it would insert a group of panes in one time. or maybe dynamilcly generate new panes to the main skin.

<DNN:NewSkinObject runat="server" id="mySkinObject" /> and that rendered as 3 Panes in the skin that are ables to be insert modules in them.

???

any input in this subject ???

9/8/2007 4:34 AM

	Wes Tatters
410 posts

Re: Creating Pane at runtime

The process that handles the binding of MODULES to PANES happens in the Page_init event of the SKIN object.

And more over the Code that breaks down the HTML tags to locate the PANE elements is the first step in teh process.

Since the Page_init event cycle occurs BEFORE the various objects in the skin are rendered to HTML there would be no way
that the HTML in yrou skinobject would be rendered down to HTML in time to participate in the PANE selection process.

Westa

9/8/2007 5:55 AM

	Sebastian Leupold
13761 posts
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Re: Creating Pane at runtime

you can either provide panes in collapsible columns, that will have 0 width if no module is placed inside or use a 3rd party "Module Aggregator" modules, that can hold multiple modules side by side or in any other arragement.

Sebastian Leupold

DotNetNuke Project UserDefinedTable
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9/8/2007 11:03 AM

	Bassel Issa
55 posts

Re: Creating Pane at runtime

from the way that page skin writen. i see that the proccess should render all skin objects before start looking inside the html for panes. so the proccess should go as the following

1 - checking the current page skin html and looking for registered SkinObject (excute them and load thier render output into response object, memory stream)

in this prorccess the Response object can contain some dynamiclly generated panes (came from excuting some special skinObjects)

2 - checking for declared "runat server" html elements that should be loaded as panes. (here the collection of panes will be fillled by this proccess and procces 1)

3 - injecting modules in panes

please correct me if i am wrong. !! i still need to review the code of page_init of the core. !!

9/11/2007 9:48 PM

	Wes Tatters
410 posts

Re: Creating Pane at runtime

DNN does not use the skin html at RUNTIME. Instead whenever you import a skin it converts the html to an ascx object.
This asxc object is declared as being based on the DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin class as defined in skin.vb in the dotnetnuke library.

To load the skin Default.aspx.vb instantiates a instance of the object and adds it to the current page in its PAGE_INIT processing.

The first thing that happens when the SKIN object Page_Init fires is that it ITERATES the HTML control list looking for PANES.

So I guess then it really comes down to when ASP.NET renders the contents of any objects down to HTML.
And unless thats changed in recent times it happens after the PAGE_INIT. PAGE_LOAD and PRE_RENDER events.

Westa

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