Do you mean like skins or themes support? ( of which locale is just one dimensions for skins )
Kheldar666 wrote: > Hi again, > > We tried your method in our Tapestry demos. It works fine, but it is not > very convinient for the moment. We were wondering if there is a way to > implement the same mecanism that is used by the "Localized Component > Templates". In fact this mecanism would perfectly feet our needs. > > If it is possible to dynamicaly change Component Template based on the > Locale of the current user, why wouldn't it be possible based on another > criteria ? > > Is there realy no way to implement such a mecanism in Tapestry ? May be we > could tell Tapestry in which package to look for the Component templates ? > > Thanks a lot for the answer. > > Regards, > > Martin > > > Howard M. Lewis Ship wrote: >> Tapestry has always had a tight binding between the component class >> and the template. This is opposed to Struts et al, which has a weak >> relationship (and a lot more configuration). >> >> To accomplish what you want to do, you can take one of several >> approaches: >> >> - Have multiple pages, representing the same content in different >> formats. I.e. Article, ArticleShort, ArticleLong, ArticleRSS, >> ArticlePrint, etc. >> >> - Have a component that dynamically selects another component based on >> the desired format, specified via a parameter. The metaphor here >> would be a common method with a case statement. This is roughly the >> approach that the BeanEditor and Grid components use, to match >> properties and their data types to components appropriate to view or >> edit such a property. >> >> I tend toward the latter approach, though to accomplish some things >> (such as widely differing content types : RSS or PDF rather than text/ >> html) you may need to combine the approaches. >> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 2008, at 1:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> First of all I would like to wish you an happy new year, full of >>> success >>> for you and your family :) >>> >>> My name is Martin, I work in a french web agencie as a lead >>> developper and >>> architect, mainly on CMS applications. >>> >>> I did want to bother you with a direct question, but I asked this >>> several >>> times on the Tapestry user mailing list, and no one was able to give >>> me a >>> clear ( or satisfying ) answer. >>> >>> We have a client that use an old CMS of ours, and he wants us to >>> develop a >>> new one for him. That is why I'm very interested in Tapestry 5. We >>> started >>> to develop different Application to test Tapestry and quite >>> everythings is >>> ok. >>> >>> But (there is always a but) there is something that I don't know how >>> to do >>> with tapestry 5 : handeling different display methods for the same >>> content. On the mailing list everybody answer : use CSS. I'm sorry but >>> this is not good for us. >>> >>> If I want a display method that just display a Title and a Date with a >>> Link to the page where the content is fully displayed... CSS does not >>> respond to that. >>> >>> The way I see things is : I create a Bean that represent a Content >>> (let >>> say a "Short Article" ), then I create a Component responsible for >>> displaying it and -in the Component or somewhere else- I should be >>> able to >>> tell the component -on the fly before rendering operation- to use >>> this of >>> that .tml file (all the .tml files would be present a the starting >>> of the >>> App). >>> >>> Well, that it... Is it possible to do that (or something that would >>> do the >>> same ) using Tapestry ? >>> >>> I hope that my question is clear and that I didn't bother you. >>> >>> Thanks for the time you spent reading my email :) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Martin Papy >>> >> Howard Lewis Ship >> TWD Consulting, Inc. >> Creator: Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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]
