Thanks Michael, What I finally did was to override the class.
I was looking a way to use the pagination styles from the bootstrap library (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#pagination) to accomplish that I would need to paginate.pager return me a '<li> list of link to pages' . This is the patch --- ../tg2.1.5env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/WebHelpers-1.3-py2.7.egg/webhelpers/paginate.py 2012-04-27 21:44:36.000000000 -0500 +++ myapp/lib/paginate.py 2012-07-14 00:37:19.000000000 -0500 @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ show_if_single_page=False, separator=' ', onclick=None, symbol_first='<<', symbol_last='>>', symbol_previous='<', symbol_next='>', - link_attr={'class':'pager_link'}, curpage_attr={'class':'pager_curpage'}, + link_attr={'class':'pager_link'}, curpage_attr={'class':'active'}, dotdot_attr={'class':'pager_dotdot'}, **kwargs): """ Return string with links to other pages (e.g. "1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7"). @@ -748,7 +748,9 @@ # Create a link to the first page (unless we are on the first page # or there would be no need to insert '..' spacers) if self.page != self.first_page and self.first_page < leftmost_page: - nav_items.append( self._pagerlink(self.first_page, self.first_page) ) + text = self._pagerlink(self.first_page, self.first_page) + ltext = HTML.li(text) + nav_items.append( ltext ) # Insert dots if there are pages between the first page # and the currently displayed page range @@ -756,8 +758,9 @@ # Wrap in a SPAN tag if nolink_attr is set text = '..' if self.dotdot_attr: - text = HTML.span(c=text, **self.dotdot_attr) - nav_items.append(text) + text = HTML.a(text, href='#') + ltext = HTML.li(text, **self.curpage_attr) + nav_items.append(ltext) for thispage in xrange(leftmost_page, rightmost_page+1): # Hilight the current page number and do not use a link @@ -765,12 +768,14 @@ text = '%s' % (thispage,) # Wrap in a SPAN tag if nolink_attr is set if self.curpage_attr: - text = HTML.span(c=text, **self.curpage_attr) - nav_items.append(text) + text = HTML.a(text, href='#') + ltext = HTML.li(text, **self.curpage_attr) + nav_items.append(ltext) # Otherwise create just a link to that page else: text = '%s' % (thispage,) - nav_items.append( self._pagerlink(thispage, text) ) + ltext = self._pagerlink(thispage, text) + nav_items.append( HTML.li(ltext) ) # Insert dots if there are pages between the displayed # page numbers and the end of the page range @@ -778,14 +783,19 @@ text = '..' # Wrap in a SPAN tag if nolink_attr is set if self.dotdot_attr: - text = HTML.span(c=text, **self.dotdot_attr) - nav_items.append(text) + text = HTML.a(text, href='#') + ltext = HTML.li(text, **self.curpage_attr) + nav_items.append(ltext) # Create a link to the very last page (unless we are on the last # page or there would be no need to insert '..' spacers) if self.page != self.last_page and rightmost_page < self.last_page: nav_items.append( self._pagerlink(self.last_page, self.last_page) ) > > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 12:14:25 AM UTC-5, Michael Pedersen wrote: > > Well, thinking about it, you have a few options. > > You can override the class, and set the static template. Nothing wrong > with this, and could even be preferred, especially on higher traffic sites. > It will only ever be handled once, and it's done. > > You can add your logic to your base controller (look at > myproject.lib.base:BaseController). That method would work, but will incur > an overhead on *every* request to your site. Small, but still there. > > You can continue as you have been, adding your logic to each controller > method. Not very maintainable, and still incurs the penalty. > > You can re-check and make sure you actually need to be doing this. Most > people, most of the time, should be able to get along with just updating > their CSS files, resulting in no changes at all. This is the best, but is > not always something that can be done. If you can, though, I would > recommend it. > > That's really all the options I can come up with. I hope it helps somewhat. > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Juparave <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >>> >>> I wonder where exactly should I set flash.static_template. >> >> I want to change the template site-wide and so far what I manage to do is >> to add a declaration for flash.static_template in every controller. >> >> Should I override the class and set the static_template there? >> >> Thanks, I know is an old issue but so far google hasn't been my friend on >> this. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TurboGears" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/turbogears/-/UWw2OeNbdvcJ. >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Michael J. 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