on 1/9/2001 10:42 AM, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jan 2001, you wrote:
>> On Friday 05 January 2001 05:33, you wrote:
>>> I added some very basic ContextTool stuff under the whiteboard area.
>>>
>>> Nothing special. But maybe it'll give us a basis to discuss how we
>>> may want to go about adding this functionality and what kind of tools
>>> would be useful.
>>
>> What if the context tools works the same way as the turbine modules
>> with loaders and caching of the modules (read: tools) ?
>>
>> Then we could specifiy in the velocity.properties where to search for
>> the context tools (eksample:
>> <snip>
>> contexttools.package=org.apache.velocity.contexttools,
>> org,yourorg,velocity.contexttools
>> </snip>)
>>
>> And put a toolloader in the context whitch can be used like this
>> <snip of vtl>
>> #set $aTool = $toolLoader.getTool("org.apache.velocity.contexttool.SomeTool")
>> </snip of vtl>
>
> I like this idea.
I like the idea as well as an option, however, I would rather just have the
tools made available for the designer without the designer having to
copy/paste that line of code into each and every page.
In other words, you are embedding a sense of "logic" into the page by
requiring someone to code something in there in order to get a certain
amount of functionality.
thanks,
-jon
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