Right you are, I did miss something. Should have been looking at it from a more widget centric view.
On Oct 28, 7:06 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> wrote: > Kalium schrieb: > > > > > > > On Oct 27, 7:27 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Kalium schrieb: > > >>> Hi, > >>> I'm looking for a way to have one controller render more than one > >>> template. I'm not looking to dynamically _change_ which template I'm > >>> using, I just want to be able to use the same two templates always. > >>> I could of course just combine the two templates into one template and > >>> all my problems would be solved. I would rather though keep them > >>> seperate. This makes it much easier to reuse one in a place I may not > >>> want to use the other. > >> I don't understand this. Do you always want to render *both* templates > >> at the same time? That makes not much sense to me - after all, you have > >> to deliver *one* HTML-document to the browser. > > >> So maybe you can elaborate on what your actual use-case is. Then we > >> might come up with a solution, most probably something along widgets or > >> template inheritance. > > >> Diez > > > I do always want to render *both* templates with this one particular > > controller, but that doesn't mean that > > the templates will always be rendered together by a *different* > > controller. > > > So just say I have one controller for my index page with a template > > that will show the following > > * Football teams > > * Garden plants > > > Now If I have another page somewhere else where I only want to display > > the Garden plants only, > > I would possibly have to just copy and paste the Garden plants > > specifics from the index template and create another template > > > What's better though (IMHO) is to create a template for Football > > teams, and for Garden plants, so then in your index template > > you can have something like (I'm using Kid...not Genshi) > > > ${include Football.kid} > > ${include Garden.kid} > > > I've actually found a post on stackoverflow which asks the exact same > > question, and actually gives the exact same answer that > > Uwe Schroeder gave me (as well as a clunky way to do it in Kid). > > > Perhaps I've missed something along the way though? > > Yes, widgets. Just create a Footballteams-widget, and a > GardenPlants-widget. Both have their respective template. > > In index.kid, you then have > > ${teams_widget.display(teams)} > ${plants_widget.display(plants)} > > In others only the one you are interested in. > > Diez --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
