Question

Oh dear. I broke TWiki.

Ever since I upgraded to TWiki 4, I have been unable to us PatternSkin. Something was just wrng with the CSS.

Today I decided to try to "fix" this. I "fixed" it all right!

I moved my templates/ directory out of the way and replaced it with the templates directory from a TWiki 4 tree that neversaw previous revisions (no Sept 2004 files in this tree; originally installed as TWiki 4)

Then I removed the pub/TWiki/PatternSkin* directories and replaced them with the ones from the "pristine" TWiki 4 installation.

Everything looked good until I tried to edit a page. All I see is

             TopicName (edit)

> Show Formatting help

• screenshot:
  

Aarrggh.

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 10 Nov 2006

Answer

You should not have a pub/PatternSkin directory at all. After installation, pattern templates are located in the templates directory as filenames templates/*.pattern.tmpl, and the CSS files are in pub/TWiki/PatternSkin.

[_That was a typo. Yes, it's pub/TWiki/PatternSkin* - vlb_ ]

I would normally recommend to simply re-install from PatternSkin, only that I failed to download a complete archive in several attempts, they all are truncated after some 190kB. Aaargh

-- HaraldJoerg - 10 Nov 2006

This looks like javascript not working. First try to update pub/TWiki/TWikiJavascripts/twiki.js (copy from here).

-- ArthurClemens - 10 Nov 2006

Apparently this is related to the TWISTY bug. When I downloaded and installed the latest PatternSkin archive for Nov 9, the problem was solved and now I see

%TWISTYSHOW{id="edithelp" link="Show help" imgleft="/t ...

-- VickiBrown - 10 Nov 2006

Well, with the benefits of features comes the price of dependencies...

The TwistyPlugin installer should download what you need.

-- ArthurClemens - 10 Nov 2006

Well, that's bad. Now that I've instaled Twisty I'm back to no Edit area

-- VickiBrown - 10 Nov 2006

After updating the JavaScript file, I have neither an editing area nor a "Show Formatting Help" twisty.

-- VickiBrown - 10 Nov 2006

Did you use the latest pattern skin updated updater from 9 Nov? Please see the message PatternSkin, at the top.

-- ArthurClemens - 10 Nov 2006

Yes to the latest PatternSkin (that was anothertypo, or remembero). Apparently I had to re-do that after installing TWISTY.

Now I have a different problem. Onward.

-- VickiBrown - 10 Nov 2006