Template Components

Hi, as we discovered some severe design issues in the coding session yesterday, I am now rewriting the complete rendering and template related classes. The main idea is to use components and visitors, instead of the static template rendering classes I used in my first approach. I think the best is to give an example: To define the components visible on a page you create simply a composite of different template components. Please note, that this is independent of the actual design of your site, you just specify the basic layout, say: I want the wiki title on top. On the next line the current path should be displayed. Then we have two columns: on the left there is an operation-menu and a list of references and on the right there is the actual page content. ^TemplateRoot new add: TemplateGlobalTitle new; add: TemplatePath new; add: (TemplateColumns new add: (TemplateRows new add: TemplateOperations new; add: TemplateReferences new; yourself); add: (TemplateRows new add: TemplatePageTitle new; add: TemplatePageContent new; yourself); yourself); yourself The rendering is done using an visitor. It walks trough the tree (and if necessary also trough your document) and creates the html in its own design. If you like to have a different look you have to subclass the visitor. To implement a new widget (e.g. a history functionality) we simply create a new component and create a class-extension to the rendering-visitor to render our widget. You might already have a look at the code, if you like. But be warned, it has been tagged as "Under progress" because the code is quite a mess (unused code) now and there are a lot of bugs to be expected. Also I have not written a cool renderer yet, so you will feel like in the good old Lynx days ... Cheers Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org