the tabs plugin has a persistent_active feature to enable saving the active tab in...

[myslice.git] / plugins / tabs / __init__.py

diff --git a/plugins/tabs/__init__.py b/plugins/tabs/__init__.py
index d1b9bda..4bab62d 100644 (file)
--- a/plugins/tabs/__init__.py
+++ b/plugins/tabs/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,24 @@
 from unfold.composite import Composite
 
+# although the persistent_active feature originally targetted any kind of 
+# composite widget, the current implementation clearly 
+# works only with Tabs, as the javascript function for enabling a given tab
+# cannot just set the 'active' class on some DOM element, but is required
+# by bootstrap to call the tab() javascript method
+
 class Tabs (Composite):
     
+    """A composite plugin for arranging sons as selectable tabs
+    
+persistent_active: if set to True, enables preserving 
+the domid for the active tab, so that a given page
+will re-open with the same active tab
+"""
+
+    def __init__ (self, persistent_active=False, *args, **kwds):
+        Composite.__init__ (self, *args, **kwds)
+        self.persistent_active=persistent_active
+        
     def requirements (self):
         return { 'js_files'     : ['js/tabs.js', 'js/bootstrap.js'],
                  'css_files'    : ['css/bootstrap.css', 'css/tabs.css', ] 
@@ -10,6 +27,11 @@ class Tabs (Composite):
     def template_file (self):
         return "tabs.html"
 
+    def template_env (self, request):
+        inherited=Composite.template_env(self,request)
+        inherited.update({'persistent_active':self.persistent_active})
+        return inherited
+
     # see Composite.py for the details of template_env, that exposes global
     # 'sons' as a list of sons with each a set of a few attributes
     def json_settings_list (self):