Plugin Defaults

[Former Member]

I'm not sure I am just overly tired or the defaults don't work as I suspect they are supposed to. 

I am using Handlebars template engine to render out some user defined html, like so.

   /**

    * Build the UI Components

    * @param <object> Handlebars template type="text/x-handlebars-template"

    * @param <object> Data to render into template

    * @param <function> callback to return the html to

    * @return void

   **/

   lotto.BuildUIComponents = function( node, data, callback ){

     if(!node && !data && "function" !== typeof callback){

       throw new Error("lotto.BuildUIComponents($('#template') node, object data, fn callback) has one or more invalid parameters!");

     }  

     var _src, _template, _html;    

     try{

       _src       = $.trim(node.html());

       _template  = Handlebars.compile(_src);

       _html      = _template(data);  

       callback.call(this, $.trim(_html));

     }catch(e){ console.error(e.message); }

events.On("lotto.winner", function( data ){

    $('body').append(lotto.config.template.winner);    

    lotto.BuildUIComponents(
        $("#lotto-winner"), data, function(html){
            scope.append(html);
        });
   );
});

(winner) 
?  events.Emit("lotto.winner", {uid: 0, ticket: 34, jackpot: 129.45})
:  events.Emit("lotto.nowinner", {});


I am attempting to allow the user to write their own html in the plugin settings.
It works as expected if I manually write the html block manually, I would like to embed the html as part of the default options. It does not seem to be working however.  I assumed it would fill the content into the html block for me.


User defined HTML block default should look like this
<script id="lotto_home" type="text/x-handlebars-template">
    <!-- ONLY EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -->
    <div class="lotto-welcome">

        <h2>Proboards Lottery</h2>
        <p> Hey <strong>{{user}}</strong>, Play each week to win our lotto jackpot
            The draw will take place every {{day}} at {[time}}
        </p>  
        <button id="buy"> BUY a ticket for just ${{price}}</button>

   </div>
   <!-- -->    
</script>

[Peter]

I think it's just an issue on the forum you are developing on. I have the same problem, if I add new fields and set defaults, they don't appear. It's because the plugin isn't being imported. If you export the plugin to another test forum and import it, you will see that it should work fine.

[Former Member]

Peter PHEW!!

That's good to know mate, cheers!

[Chris]

The reason being defaults are saved directly into the *.pbp file and are only merged into the forum's settings during the the process of importing the plugin, so as a developer if you change defaults you need to re-import to see the changes in non-build mode. I'm sure there must be some ajax call that could update the forum settings with the new defaults without having to re-import and hopefully that will be addressed along with the fix for the other build mode issues.

Build-mode Wishlist

• Easily reorder tabs
• Easily move controls between tabs
• conditional validations similar to form widget
• formatted text
• a light saber^*done