Apologies for the long post. First off, thanks to Christopher Arndt for the following doc:
Templates for using TurboCheetah with TurboGears http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/wiki/TurboCheetahTemplates I was able to use it to embed pure XML into an HTML page very quickly. (I could not find a way to get it to work using Kid.) I wanted to use the PXTK js library in a gui we are working on and used it as a reason to go through the JS library packaging screencast. (Thanks for that, Kevin. Well worth the cost of the DVD ) It worked like a charm. As I mentioned in a previous post, the system seems to require embedding xml on the HTML page. While trying to create TG widgets for the coresponding PXTK widgets I ran across a lot of issues that are most likely due to my lack of understanding of Kid. In any case, I turned to TurboCheetah and I have the results that I want. Of course, there are some things that I'd like to clean up. Here is the controller that uses the PXTK widget: ------------------------------------------------------ import logging import cherrypy import turbogears from turbogears import controllers, expose, validate, redirect from pxtk import Pxtk from useplex import json log = logging.getLogger("useplex.controllers") sample = ''' <px:Box> <px:XML id="myxml" xmlns="www.data.com"> <Company label="Protea"> <System icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/devices/system.png"> <Home icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder_home.png"> <Documents> <item label="Plex API Reference" /> <item label="Plex Handbook" /> <item label="Getting Started" /> </Documents> </Home> <Desktop icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/desktop.png" /> <Internet icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/www.png" /> </System> </Company> </px:XML> <px:Tree defaultLeafIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/mimetypes/document.png" folderClosedIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder.png" folderOpenIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder_open.png" id="EmployeeTrace" width="285px" height="150px" dataProvider="{myxml}" /> </px:Box> ''' class Root(controllers.RootController): @expose(template="cheetah:useplex.templates.plex",) # @expose(template="useplex.templates.welcome",) def index(self): import time p = Pxtk(xml_body=sample) log.debug("Happy TurboGears Controller Responding For Duty") return dict(now=time.ctime(), xml=p.render(), aWidget=p) ------------------------------------------------------ I pass in aWidget, which is enough to trigger the set up of the JS and CSS entities. However, I don't know how to set up the cheetah template such that I can invoke the render() method on the widget within the template. To get around this I simply pass the xml string as well. Does any one know how to change the template so that I can do something like ${aWidget.render()} instead of passing in the xml string as well? Here is my cheetah template: ------------------------------------------------------ #extends useplex.templates.SiteTemplate #def pagetitle <title>Welcome to TurboGears!</title> #end def #def pagecontent <h1>Welcome to TurboGears!</h1> <p>This page was generated on ${now}</p> <p>$xml</p> #end def ------------------------------------------------------ Here is a sample of the generated file so you know that I am trying to accomplish: ------------------------------------------------------ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <LINK MEDIA="all" HREF="/tg_widgets/pxtk/css/plexiglass.css" TYPE="text/css" REL="stylesheet"> <SCRIPT SRC="/tg_widgets/pxtk/javascript/CORE.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">require('px')</SCRIPT> <title>Welcome to TurboGears!</title> </head> <body> <div id="header"> </div> <div id="pagecontent"> <h1>Welcome to TurboGears!</h1> <p>This page was generated on Thu Jul 20 13:09:27 2006</p> <p><xmp xmlns:px="http://www.plextk.org/2005/pxm"; class="View"> <px:Box> <px:XML id="myxml" xmlns="www.data.com"> <Company label="Protea"> <System icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/devices/system.png"> <Home icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder_home.png"> <Documents> <item label="Plex API Reference" /> <item label="Plex Handbook" /> <item label="Getting Started" /> </Documents> </Home> <Desktop icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/desktop.png" /> <Internet icon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/www.png" /> </System> </Company> </px:XML> <px:Tree defaultLeafIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/mimetypes/document.png" folderClosedIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder.png" folderOpenIcon="/tg_widgets/pxtk/images/icons/22x22/filesystems/folder_open.png" id="EmployeeTrace" width="285px" height="150px" dataProvider="{myxml}" /> </px:Box> </xmp></p> </div> </body> </html> ------------------------------------------------------ Rather than use the PXTK generic widget, I'm going to create TG widgets around each pxtk widget I need. That way I can decouple the data portion from the widget portion in the <XMP> and make it more flexible. That's the hope any way... Thanks for bothering to read this. Nicky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
