[Typo3-dev] Distributing TemplateVoil,a Templates as extensions

[tapio]

Robert Lemke wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Stephane Schitter wrote:
> 
> 
>>I asked about the same question a while ago [1] and the answer I got
>>from Kasper
>>is that Template Object cannot and will never be meant to be included in
>>an extension.
>>
>>Now I do not know if that means that TemplaVoila templates cannot be built
>>as extensions, similar to standard templates, but I see it having a strong
>>dependency on being able to package a TO within an ext.
> 
> 
> But we'll have to make that possible ... because my idea is to deliver all
> traditional content types (text, text w/image, etc.) as flexible content
> elements with TemplaVoila. That means you will only work with FCEs and can
> drop lots of fields in tt_content.
> 
> I'll have to find a way of implementing that for TemplaVoila 1.0 which is on
> the roadmap for TYPO3 4.0.
> 

BUT I found serious problems with TemplaVoila (I'm Tapio Markula)

SEVERAL MAIN TEMPLATES >< SEVERAL CONTENT AREA TEMPLATES

I tried to follow - too old - documentation about TV.
Well I got it work at the same way as my extended MTB - even shared 
content works - using the normal page module.
I just changed all temp.something into lib.something.
Content area templates are selected using the selector for MTB.

BUT 
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_tut_ftb1/Creating_a_two_colum/
Learns to use several MAIN templates - I don't like this approach at all.

I want to use just ONE main template (I would control main template only 
by CSS or using the Advanced Banner Manager) and several content area 
templates as I had done with Modern Template Building, MTB.

I want different layout for  second level content area templates using 
multiple of them and use possible some different color schemes.

Endeed this is not the main problem.

SHARED CONTENTS

I made possible to use shared contents with Modern Template Building.
I modified setup.txt and constant.txt for CSS styled Contents on
the base of the plugin 'HTML/CSS Styling'.

I didn't get shared content to work with TV except just using MTB
with TV - that means only replacing 'temp.' with '.lib'. But TV doesn't
work really as TV in that mode - it just works like MTB.

There should be a way to set shared content so that TV works as it has 
been designed. This is REALLY important.

COMBINE TV AND MTB

I tried to combine TV and MTB in order to get shared contents - failed.
Is there possibility to combine MTB and TV - now the work separetely.

I would like to learn TV because the page module seems clearer than
the normal page module.