What I want to do would look something like so: --------------------------------------------------------------- [listbox.asp]
<asp:listbox id="list1"> <asp:listitem>Select One</asp:listitem> </asp:listbox>
<%
# Dynamically add items to the list before it's rendered:
$Page->list1->Items->add(
asp::listitem->new( Value => "1", Text => "Blue" ) ); $Page->list1->Items->add(
asp::listitem->new( Value => "2", Text => "Red" ) );
# or, iterate through items within the listbox: foreach my $item ( $Page->list1->Items ) { if( $item->Value == 1 ) { $item->Text = "Blue [this is my favorite...isn't it yours?]"; }# end if() }# end foreach()
%> ---------------------------------------------------------------
Something tells me that this isn't too far away from what we already have with Apache::ASP...that with some extra methods inherited from a package subclassed by asp::listbox and asp::listitem, it is 100% possible.
I would need some help with where to bless the $Page object into the namespace the ASP pages are executed in.
If you set up a $List object in global.asa, it will be seen in includes and scripts, but not in the scope of the XMLSubs packages. So you might create it in the main package to reference from like this:
# global.asa
use vars qw($List);
sub Script_OnStart {
$List = $main::List = List->new();
}
sub Script_OnEnd {
$List->can('DESTROY') && $List->DESTROY;
$List = $main::List = undef;
}Then in the script, you can:
<%
$List->->add('list1',
ListItem->new( Value => "1", Text => "Blue" )
);
%>And then you can:
<asp:listbox id="list1">
<asp:listitem>Select One</asp:listitem>
</asp:listbox>And have XMLSubs defined to handle asp:listbox & asp:listitem properly, looking at the $main::List object.
If you really want to build objects through code though, you might check out CGI.pm, which has plenty of methods for doing exactly this. Output from a CGI.pm object should be compatible with Apache::ASP.
Apache::ASP does *almost* everything I want it to do, and this kind of extension would make it a lot more powerful in my opinion.
What is the extension in particular that you are looking for? Is there something particular about <asp:listbox /> handling that you like in ASP.NET that you want implemented as is? Particularly what features of ASP.NET do you think should make it into Apache::ASP ?
Regards,
Josh
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