Hi Ladislav,
> 1) How do I propagate a variable Up the component tree? The use case is > simple: I have Base.mc, which defines most of the page layout, and > another one, let's say it's foo.mc, which wants to add to the title. I > could probably find a way to hack it by studying the generated class > files, but surely, there must be a simpler way. If this example, perhaps the best option would be <%attr> if the title can be a fixed string, or <%method> if your component needs to compute the title. > 2) How do I create custom component type? I've noticed I can add custom > suffixed, but seen no way to declare component it self. I've found that pure > perl components are a bit hacky, since they seem to only append the '<%class>' > and '</%class>' and are hacked inside the Interp and Compiler. > I am thinking of making the same thing, in the end, I just want to see > the content before it's modified and filter some stuff in and out. I > wonder if there is a clean way to do it, I'm not sure you need a custom component type for modifying a plain text file. The obvious option would be to use a textarea (that's what Wikipedia uses). If your user is supposed to use a text editor, then maybe he could upload the file afterwards. Am I missing something? > Here, you can see another challenge, and that is indexing of *.pp's, so > they can appear somewhere automatically (and I won't have to call > File::Find or something else each time I want the list), but this is the > easiest part. If the list of files is not dynamically generated, then you'll want to compute it once (using 'find', for example) and store the result. You can then dynamically read the stored file, in case you update it by hand or by crontab, or you can hardcode its contents in the component that allows your user to navigate it. A medium solution would be to use an expirable cache. Best regards, Seb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users
