Tim, The advanced tiles pdf is under the "User and Developer Guides" (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/index.html), Tiles Guide (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/dev_tiles.html), under the bottom-of-the-page link "Tiles Advanced Features":
http://www.lifl.fr/~dumoulin/tiles/tilesAdvancedFeatures.pdf Why not just subclass TilesAction? You wrote you need other classes to subclass it and do something before you execute? Can't you just subclass TilesAction into MyTilesAction, create an empty MyTilesAction.dummy() method which you will override in future subclasses, then override MyTilesAction.execute() (the appropriate one since one get a Tiles context object so you can manipulate the tile data) so it calls MyTilesAction.execute() before running the real super.execute() method? All your classes can then subclass MyTilesAction and setup your dummy() method in that subclass to do your appropriate pre-execute() work. Or were you doing something like this for your actions but didn't know it could be used with anything you subclassed from a TilesAction? Regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Tim Penhey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 4:03 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: Tiles and changing the title based on content That could work. BTW where is the advanced tiles PDF? The other possibility I suppose is to have the default layout use an include that specifies <c:set var="titleKey"><tiles:getAsString name="titleKey"/></c:set> <title><bean:message key="${titleKey}"/></title> and it could be overriden in an extended tile definition to use <title>${item.name}</title> but my question on that is the efficiency of having two line JSPs that are included in tiles. What overhead is there in including a one or two line JSP? Inheriting the TilesAction would require another intermediate class that would handle the default behaviour that I want the pages to have, and other actions would have to override this. If I did this, is there an appropriate method to do this default behaviour that happens before the execute method? Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: David Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 May 2004 23:41 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Tiles and changing the title based on content > > > Tim, > > Why not use a TilesAction (org.apache.struts.tiles.action package) and > change/set tiles attributes using the putAttribute() method of the > ComponentContext object. For more details, see the advances tiles PDF. > > -David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 6:34 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Cc: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Tiles and changing the title based on content > > > I am not sure why this is a problem. All you have to do if you want part > of the response object to be dynamic is put your dynamic value in the > tile. Presumably you have some dynamic factor choosing the tiles content > page. Just have that same factor decide what the value of the title > is. There are lots of ways to introduce dynamic content. I don't see the > problem. > > Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
