The "default" way of specifying a specific layout template for a screen
template is to give them the same name. Why do you want to override this
behavior in the Screen?
A caching system would be good.
John
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From: jon * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Turbine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:54 PM
Subject: wmsitelayout feature request
> This is mostly for Dave...
>
> I want to be able to have a Screen class override the layout template that
> will be executed by returning a method from Screen.getLayout(). This would
> happen somewhere in WebMacroSitePage, but I don't want it to interrupt the
> current scheme of doing the layout search path. One idea I was thinking of
> having is a check to see if a Screen has overridded that method by looking
> at the results. If the string ends with ".wm", then consider it overridden
> and attempt to execute it. What do you think of that idea?
>
> Also, we should think about doing a caching system so that the search path
> only happens once on a "production" box. In other words, once the template
> is found, stick with that one template and don't do the search over and
over
> again. What do you think of that?
>
> -jon
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