Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of TracDev/PluginDevelopment/ExtensionPoints/trac.prefs.api.IPreferencePanelProvider

Timestamp:

Dec 13, 2014, 12:56:19 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Peter Suter

Comment:

Child / parent panels (#11853)

TracDev/PluginDevelopment/ExtensionPoints/trac.prefs.api.IPreferencePanelProvider

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 When a user browses to the preferences dialog, all implementations are called to provide any implemented panels, which are shown as tabs. When the user activates a tab the respective implementation is called to render the page corresponding to that tab.
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+Since Trac 1.1.3 implementations can also provide ''child panels'' that show up as a section in the parent panel. A modular ecosystem of thematically related plugins can use child panels to populate a shared preferences page.
 
 == Usage ==
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  * #9162: Ticket with a patch to split the core {{{IPreferencePanelProviders}}} from the {{{PreferencesModule}}}
  * #9313: Ticket about documenting preference session saving
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+=== API History
+* [wiki:TracDev/ApiChanges/0.11#IPreferencePanelProvider 0.11] introduced the interface.
+* [wiki:TracDev/ApiChanges/1.1.3#IPreferencePanelProvider 1.1.3] added possibility to return tuples with a third item `parent_panel` for [wiki:TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedNotification#Modularpreferencepages modular preference pages]. (#11853)