Re: [OS-webwork] Idea to enhance the velocity templates for re-use

[Pat Lightbody]

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Well, if you want to go ahead and put it in place (and don't have any bugs to fix ;) then go for it. In the meantime, I'm going to continue to focus on backwards compatibility and docs. The release happens when those two things happen. ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron Braid To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Idea to enhance the velocity templates for re-use I can leave it till 2.0 is released.   I am currently using this code in 3 projects, so its stable, and its a fairly small change.   1 new property on abstractUiTag 2 if statements   But... I'll leave it till after the release.   When is the release ?   :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Lightbody Sent: Monday, 6 October 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Idea to enhance the velocity templates for re-use Well, it sounds somewhat useful, but right now I'm not that interested in new features but rather making sure the ones 1.3 are all supported and we have cleared out all our bugs. Maybe in a release after 2.0? ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron Braid To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 6:59 PM Subject: RE: [OS-webwork] Idea to enhance the velocity templates for re-use I meant to mention that this isn't in the CVS repo currently.    It is an extension that I am using on some projects.   Cameron. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Braid Sent: Monday, 6 October 2003 11:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OS-webwork] Idea to enhance the velocity templates for re-use I have implemented an extension to the AbstractUITag and the /templates/xhtml/controlheader.vm and controlfooter.vm to allow me to re-use the ui components with different layouts.   What I have done is added a new property of the ui tags called "controlTemplate"   this specifies the name of the controlhead and controlfooter tempaltes to use instead of the defaults.   This allows the same input controls to be used with different layouts.   The modification that I have made to controlheader.vm is :   #if ($tag.controlTemplate)   #if($tag.controlTemplate != "")     #parse ("${theme}${tag.controlTemplate}-header.vm")   #end #else  ## default contents #end   and a similiar pattern in the footer.   Then, if you use   <ww:textfield controlTemplate="filterbox"  name="name"/>   you can have filterbox-header.vm and filterbox-footer.vm in the /templates/xhtml folder to layout the label and errors differently.   Is this something that other people want included in the core ?   Cameron.