Look into ActionEvent or try this:
<a
href="$link.setPage("Magic.vm").setAction("Action").addPathInfo("eventSu
bmit_doMagic","magic")">magic</a>
<a
href="$link.setPage("Trick.vm").setAction("Action").addPathInfo("eventSu
bmit_doTrick","trick")">trick</a>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diethelm Guallar, Gonzalo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 7:00 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Action_events from a link?
>
>
> In a form, you can do something like:
>
> <form name="myForm" action="$link.setAction("myAction")">
> ...
> <input type="submit" name="eventSubmit_doFirst"
> value="First Action">
> <input type="submit" name="eventSubmit_doSecond"
> value="Second Action">
> </form>
>
> and this will end up locating an Action class named myAction,
> and calling its method doFirst() or doSecond(), depending on
> which submit button was pressed. Very nice.
>
> Is there any way to replace those buttons with links? In
> other words, I would like to have two links:
>
> <a href="$link.MAGIC">First Action</a>
> <a href="$link.MAGIC">Second Action</a>
>
> and have the first link act as the first submit button, and
> the second link act as the second submit button. The problem
> I see is that there is no way to specify the action for a
> link; MAGIC can only be, as far as I know,
>
> setAction("myAction")
>
> but that doesn't specify the method to call, and the link
> will end up calling method doPerform().
>
> If this is an accurate description for the way links are
> handled, maybe this would be a good reason to add an
> alternative syntax for specifying actions; for example:
>
> <a href="$link.setAction("myAction:doFirst")">First Action</a>
> <a href="$link.setAction("myAction:doSecond")">Second Action</a>
>
> which could also be used instead of "eventSubmit_XXX":
>
> <form name="myForm" action="$link.setAction("myAction")">
> ...
> <input type="submit" name=":doFirst" value="First Action">
> <input type="submit" name=":doSecond" value="Second Action"> </form>
>
> Any hints or comments? Thanks,
>
>
> --
> Gonzalo A. Diethelm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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