[Mediawiki-l] how to create customised edit toolbar buttons?

[Jim Hu]

You might also consider making the boilerplate a Template page  
instead of hardcoding it into the js.  That way you can edit it in  
the wiki.

    mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = {
      "imageFile": "url of the button image",
      "speedTip": "Custom text",
      "tagOpen": "",
      "tagClose": "",
      "sampleText": "{{TemplatePageName}}\n" +
    };

Jim H.


On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Jim Wilson wrote:

>> The chunk of wiki text is actually over
>> several lines - is this solution only for inserting single lines?
>
> If you want to insert multiple lines, your addition may look more  
> like this:
>
>    mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = {
>      "imageFile": "url of the button image",
>      "speedTip": "Custom text",
>      "tagOpen": "",
>      "tagClose": "",
>      "sampleText":
>           "First line of template text\n" +
>           "Second line of template text\n" +
>           "Third and final line of template text."
>    };
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 12:08 PM, Derrick Farnell  
> <derrick.farnell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks very much for your help. The chunk of wiki text is actually  
>> over
>> several lines - is this solution only for inserting single lines?
>>
>> Derrick
>>
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2007 4:18 PM, Jim Hu <jimhu at tamu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> It may be hard without any programming knowledge...
>>>
>>> The extra buttons at wikipedia are controlled by javascript in the
>>> page Mediawiki:Common.js.  I've made this a bit easier to read on  
>>> our
>>> wiki:
>>>
>>>        http://ecoliwiki.net/colipedia/index.php/
>>> MediaWiki:Common.js#Extra_toolbar_options
>>>
>>> What you need to do is define another button handler for your  
>>> desired
>>> text.
>>>
>>>    mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] = {
>>>      "imageFile": "url of the button image",
>>>      "speedTip": "Custom text",
>>>      "tagOpen": "",
>>>      "tagClose": "",
>>>      "sampleText": "insert custom text here"};
>>>
>>> I think that will work.  Haven't tried it, though.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:46 AM, Derrick Farnell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'd like users of my wiki (www.chainsofreason.org) to be able to  
>>>> add a
>>>> particular chunk of wikitext to a page by simply clicking on a
>>>> button in the
>>>> edit page toolbar, but have been unable to find a suitable
>>>> extension. Is
>>>> there some relatively easy way to achieve this? I don't have any
>>>> programming
>>>> knowledge.
>>>>
>>>> Derrick
>>>> Chains of Reason
>>>> www.chainsofreason.org
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054