Paul, Thank you for the feedback, guidance, suggestions, and further ideas. I will have to take some time to sort through everything.
Mike On Oct 1, 1:21 am, Paul Downey <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike > > I wrote a hack as a plugin to assert a refresh on a theme switch (to > handle where the core function hadn't spotted a template change) which > might help: > > http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/ThemeSwitchRefreshPlugin/ > > > So would I modify the above code (in a tiddler), tag as systemConfig, > > and experiment from there? (is that how you HiJack?) > > If the question is on HiJacking in general, then I've landed a second > pattern demonstrated by extending the core tiddlerToRssItem and > generateRss functions: > > http://whatfettle.com/2008/07/GeoRSSPlugin/ > > but would welcome better approaches. I particularly dislike the > longhand assignment of context in each function, a lazy habit I fell > into when unable to fathom how to make "this" work for "me" -- I > believe Doug Cockford uses a "that" variable in similar circumstances. > > I've also heard some people manipulate the core function source text > and using eval to save duplicating code, but that's extreme drunken > monkey-patching IMO .. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch > > We should document these patterns on the wiki .. > > -- > Paul (psd)http://blog.whatfettle.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
