On 4/24/06, Arvid Hülsebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobago calculates widths and heights on the server. Therefore it needs > to be able to ask components about its size. > > We were thinking about providing a way to describe these sizes for other > component sets.... but this wouldn't help to cope with the theming. > Currently I don't see a good way to integrate the theming aspect with > other component sets.
Arvid, Thanks for clearing this up. I also think there'd be difficulties in getting theming to work with other component sets, and I hadn't considered the need for a layout manager to query contents for size information. What about the possiblity of components existing both in and out of tobago? When in tobago, the theming would work as expected, but when used outside of tobago, they'd either specify the theme using an attribute <component theme="whatever"> or only provide the default theme. As people had interest, perhaps additional tomahawk components could be "tobago-enabled" so as to work with both frameworks. If nothing else, perhaps I can write up our discusson on this as a better answer for "Can I mix tobago and myfaces extensions in the same webapp?" on the http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/faq.html page to keep a record of the limitations to be overcome.
