[Building Sakai] Hide tool menu

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Nico,

Absolutely, it would be a great addition, feel feel to track it with this JIRA:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18687

cheers,
Steve

On 25/06/2010, at 9:14 PM, N. Matthijs wrote:

> As far as I remember, the implementation in MyCamTools works on all browsers.
> We do not offer it to users with IE6 however, as we found it hard to make
> the icons
> clickable in IE6 at the time (so it gracefully degrades at least). It also
> stores a cookie to
> remember which configuration (collapsed or uncollapsed) the user has last
> used.
> 
> As John says, this has been working in production for nearly 2 years now.
> I think
> it should be fairly trivial to port this to general sakai 2.8.
> 
> I'm happy to try and implement this in a branch if people think it would
> be useful
> enough to add to 2.8.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Nicolaas
> 
>> Still does, and has been in production for nearly 2 years.
>> 
>> Don't know how hard it would be to extract. Nico may be able to help.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> On 22 Jun 2010, at 13:39, Kevin P. Foote wrote:
>> 
>>> FWIW..
>>> 
>>> I know its and entirely different UI experience.. but the 'My CamTools'
>>> UI did this exact thing ..
>>> 
>>> "collapse the menu down to a format where only the icons are visible"
>>> 
>>> Would be great to see it in the 2.8 UI :-)
>>> 
>>> ------
>>> thanks
>>> kevin.foote
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>>> 
>>> -> As Chuck mentioned, I think something like this would be pretty neat
>>> to get into 2.8. I'm imagining an enhancement where you could collapse
>>> the menu down to a format where only the icons are visible, then expand
>>> it back out again, similar to how it appears in Blackboard (but better
>>> ;).
>>> ->
>>> -> cheers,
>>> -> Steve
>>> ->
>>> ->
>>> -> On 22/06/2010, at 4:15 PM, Jaques Smith wrote:
>>> ->
>>> -> > Super, thanks Gonzalo.
>>> -> >
>>> -> > -----Original Message-----
>>> -> > From: Silverio, Gonzalo [mailto:gsilver at umich.edu]
>>> -> > Sent: 21 June 2010 10:16 PM
>>> -> > To: Jaques Smith
>>> -> > Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Hide tool menu
>>> -> >
>>> -> > Hi,
>>> -> >
>>> -> > In your tool add the following:
>>> -> >
>>> -> > 	<script type="text/javascript"
>>> src="/library/js/jquery.js"></script>
>>> -> > 	<script  type="text/javascript">
>>> -> > 	$(document).ready(function() {
>>> -> > 		$('#toggleToolMenu').toggle(function(e){
>>> -> > 				e.preventDefault();
>>> -> > 				$('#toolMenuWrap',
>>> window.parent.document).css({'width':'2px','overflow':'hidden'});
>>> -> > 				$('#content',
>>> window.parent.document).css({'margin-left':'1em'});
>>> -> > 			}, function(e) {
>>> -> > 				e.preventDefault();
>>> -> > 				$('#toolMenuWrap',
>>> window.parent.document).css({'width':'11em'});
>>> -> > 				$('#content',
>>> window.parent.document).css({'margin-left':'12.3em'});
>>> -> >
>>> -> > 			});
>>> -> > 	});
>>> -> > 	</script>
>>> -> >
>>> -> > 	<a id="toggleToolMenu" href="#">Toggle full width</a>
>>> -> >
>>> -> > This should work in 2.6 -  the above measurements assume the
>>> default Sakai skin - you will need to adjust for your case.
>>> -> >
>>> -> > Thanks.
>>> -> >
>>> -> > 	-Gonzalo
>>> -> >
>>> -> > On Jun 21, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Jaques Smith wrote:
>>> -> >
>>> -> >> Hi all,
>>> -> >>
>>> -> >> Is it possible to show-hide/open-close the tool menu in a site in
>>> Sakai 2.6? The idea would be that there is a clickable item in the tool
>>> to hide the menu so the tool has more realastate and the same again to
>>> show the menu.
>>> -> >>
>>> -> >> Thanks,
>>> -> >> Jaques
>>> -> >> <ATT00001..txt>
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