An utter Tapestry newbie here, although I was at some recent training Howard gave.
My question is, "Given a page composed of components, is there an easy, visual way to analyze the structure in terms of custom components *from the browser *?". The problem I'm trying to address is the most efficient way to bring someone new (me, in this case <G>) up to speed on a project. A person can use some of the browser tools to examine the HTML, but that doesn't relate very well back to the raw files (components) they came from. I hacked together a script that inserts an <img> tag in all my local copies of the .tml files, with a title attribute of the file path that .tml came from. Now, when I'm viewing prior art I can hover over the icons I've inserted and see the full file path that the .tml came from. This allows me to figure out that component X contains component Y which in turn contains component Z in a *visual* way, which makes it *much* easier to understand the relationships between components, as well as know what the visual result of using a component is. Of course there's no way I'd consider checking this in, it's strictly for local usage. This is more proof-of-concept, but even in this crude form I'm finding it very helpful. Now when presented with another page to implement, I have a better chance of saying "Look, page X does something similar, and uses components Y and Z. I wonder if those components are a good place to start?". Of course, this messes with the formatting of the page, things move around, etc, but that's not important for me now. My question for the list is "Is anything similar already built into Tapestry but I just haven't found it yet?". Or are there any best practices others have used? Best Erick
