Reorderer/Lightbox Separation of Concerns
About the Image Gallery Tool
The Image Gallery is an RSF-based Sakai tool that can also be deployed as a JSR168-compliant portlet. The gallery tool has no direct awareness of the Reorderer, only the Lightbox. It uses a LightboxProducer to generate the necessary markup required to use the Reorderer and Lightbox.
The Sakai Image Gallery tool, as an example of an RSF application that uses the Lightbox and Reorderer, consists of:
main.htmltemplate file, which provides the markup required to render a full gallery page.
- MainProducer, the RSF ViewProducer required to dynamically generate the Gallery tool's UI. The MainProducer uses an instance of the LightboxProducer to generate the Lightbox-specific markup.
For convenience's sake, the Lightbox HTML template,
Lightbox.html, may be embedded directly into the Gallery's
main.html template, providing a single place for designers to make changes to the markup of both the Lightbox and the surrounding Gallery.