Thanks very much to Remote Learner Canada, especially Hubert Chathi and Olav Jordan, for their work on the bulk of this code, and also Mike Churchward for supporting them. I worked on it after that (actually simplified it by removing a feature temporarily: multiple pages) to bring it more to what I was imagining, and to provide a base to build on and get all the navigation perfect.
There's still work to do. Some blocks don't quite work as expected, and some of the code still needs upgrading to bring it fully into line with 2.0. We also could use a much better course overview block and better CSS styling of the profile pages. But it's definitely more usable this it was, I think.
Navigation has now been re-ordered in accordance with http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Navigation_2.0_structure.
This has led to several changes in the way in which navigation is generated included API changes, most notably using the
navigation_nodes add method now returns the newly added node rather than the key.
At the same time the global_navigation_tree block has been renamed to navigation and settings_navigation_tree to settings.
Also included in this patch the ability to switch the dock from the left to right side of the screen.
Altered js_object_init to deliver Y like js_init_call does now.
Several minor tweaks made to the dock and navigation as well at the same time.
The following changes have been made in this commit:
1. Renamed the side bar thing to dock, this is consistent through all code/css now.
2. Converted everything to YUI 3 except the panel which docked items are shown in, this iwll be converted once YUI 3 overlay is no longer beta.
3 Redisigned the dock, all blocks can now make use of it, and theme code within JS can override it so they can make it look as they want.
More changes are coming
This patch introduces two new blocks global_navigation_tree and settings_navigation_tree
both of which have been designed to make full use of the new navigation objects available through
the $PAGE object.
Bulk of this code is within lib/navigationlib.php
In particular for editing sticky blocks. If the admin addes one at site level,
then the teacher should not be able to change its configuration from
the course page, but should be able to set the position on this page.
Michael Aherne