User:Odie5533/SnipManager
| File:SnipManager.png | |
| Developer(s) | User:Odie5533 |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2009-06-04 |
| Written in | JavaScript |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Development status | Active |
SnipManager is a script which adds a toolbar to the top of the edit box for holding complex signatures, templates, or other pieces of text. It is compatible with wikiEd (and TW/HW).
Features
Customizable menu (smMenus)- Customizable forms (smCustomForms)
- Customizable form display (smColumns & smTextWidth)
- Form tooltips support
- Default value support (using either 'default':'default value here' or 'defeval' which supports javascript functions like getting the date)
- Multiple forms open at once
- Prepend and append support (for adding <ref> tags)
- Ribbon UI
- Preview templates before adding them to articles
Installation
Open your monobook.js page and add the following to it:
importScript('User:Odie5533/SnipManager.user.js');
If you use Greasemonkey, just click here.
Configuration
Note: SnipManager no longer supports customization but will again in the near future.
SnipManager supports customization by editing your monobook.js page. Read through the first part of the script to see a list of all the variables you can configure.
Here's a quick example. Add the following to your monobook.js:
<source lang="JavaScript">
smConfig = {};
smConfig.smColumns = 3;
smConfig.smSingleForm = false;
</source>
This will change the default two-column form display to three columns and allow you to have more than one form open at once.
For more customization, an example of a custom configuration can be found at my Halopedia js page, here.
Future ideas
- Display example of templates
- Tool-tip like display when hovering over the template button
- Display example at the top of a form
- Example could be shown either using plain HTML, or a live example using an AJAX preview request
- On hover, set tooltip timeout, delay 0.5 seconds before displaying. Leaving the button disables the timeout
- Could implement a simple description in HTML, then later implement an AJAX preview
- Infobox ribbon tab
- A panel is displayed that displays the usage for the template and has a button to insert the template (not an entry form like for citations, just for usage and insertion)
- Add button to bottom right of panels to link to a list of similar templates
- Later change link to dialog similar to Friendly/Twinkle
- Auto-generate reference names with author's last name and year
- Have a button to generate it
- Or have a button to Add with generated ref name
- Or automatically generate it as the user fills in the year and last name
