Hi Geert, > My thought was to move the contents of resources/templates down one > additional directory, resulting in e.g.: > resources/templates/en_US > admin > authentication > common > pub > resources/templates/en_US_PDA > admin > authentication > common > pub > resources/templates/fr > etc, etc, etc. > > I then created a MyElement to extend Element and hold the skin > attribute, and altered the elements to include the skin in the call to > getHtmlTemplate(). But the jumpstart templates include other > templates, and I haven't yet found a way to make them relative to the > main template location.
I'm not familiar enough with the path system in RIFE elements and templates. Could a custom resource finder solve this problem? Can templates use relative paths (i.e. "include ../common/blueprint")? Josh -- Joshua Hansen Up Bear Enterprises (541) 760-7685 Geert Bevin wrote: > Hi Dennis, > >> The intent of having a directory per skin is to put everything needed >> to create the UI in that skin in one place. That's easy to explain to >> customers, and easy to support. But it looks like making it work in >> RIFE means I need to find a different place than loading the element's >> template to identify to RIFE which directory to use. Any suggestions? > > RIFE looks up templates by default by using the classpath, however it > will try to use a prefix directory 'templates' in case it can't find > the template name as-is. So the HTML template 'pub.home' will be > looked up in the classpath as the resource 'pub/home.html'. If that > isn't found, 'templates/pub/home.html' will be tried. So for the > jumpstart, the 'resources' dir is part of the classpath. You can > create any structure and include the root in the classpath. > > In your case, the easiest would probably be to override the > getHtmlTemplate method of Element and prefix the name of the templates > with skin attribute value. This should allow you to have one directory > per skin. > > Also, the lookup of templates in the classpath is just a default > behavior. You could write your own resourcefinder and really customize > resource handling completely: > http://rifers.org/wiki/display/RIFE/Abstracted+resource+handling > > Hope this helps, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Bevin > Terracotta - http://www.terracotta.org > Uwyn "Use what you need" - http://uwyn.com > RIFE Java application framework - http://rifers.org > Music and words - http://gbevin.com > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rife-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rife-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
