On 7/1/07, Daniel Fetchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It certainly communicates that you are slightly struggling > > Yes! Indeed I'm struggling! :) TG seems very cool but I haven't got > the right way of using it I guess but that's okay every tool has a > learning curve. Thanks to this list with TG it's not that bad actually > :) > > > 1) The GET/POST variables arrive at your method as parameters (no > > decorator involved for the most part). You may want to employ a > > varargs strategy in some places. > > Yes, this is clear. > > > 2) The username of a logged in user is directly available as a > > variable within TG. > > Clear too. > > > 3) The last time I put the same call in to every method; I was trying > > to construct a bread crumb trail and I since discovered a much better > > way of doing that which is covered here: > > http://www.nabble.com/-n00b--headers-footers-t3935734.html > > Oh yes, I forgot about your example mainly because when I looked at it > last time it was too complicated. Now it's much clearer, thanks. > > > 4) It puzzles me that you appear to "setup" each transaction when you > > have a long running server process to hand. > > The kind of setup I'm thinking of is for example this: if I have a > book shop app I would like to display at the top of each page the > total number of books and the total number of authors. This should > appear on every page so I was forced to fetch these two numbers from > the db and put the corresponding function call at the beginning of > each method. > > > You might find it helpful to work through a small application from the > > cogbin. > > Yes, that is exactly what I'm doing! > > > Regards > > A > > > Thanks so much for the help! > Daniel >
Wohooo! turbogears.view.variable_providers is the beast I was looking for! Thanks again, Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
