[Seaside] Newbie questions

[Julian Fitzell]

Pablo Iaria wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I'm testing Seaside and I found it very powerfull and easy to use.
> However I have a couple of questions.
> 
>     Here I go:
> 
> 1)   If I have:
>         Test>html
>             ^'<img src="image.gif">'
> 
>       where should I put the file "image.gif" to get it displayed on the
> browser ?

The easiest thing to do is:

html
   ^ '<img src="resource/image.gif">'

and then set a Document Root in the config page for your app. 
resource/* triggers an action that looks up the document root and pulls 
the file in from that directory.

> 2) I have a jsp/asp background (and a little of zope) and I found that is
> much easier to write html code outside Squeak. Is there a way to use file
> based templates ? (I saw the class IAFileTemplate but I couldn't figure out
> how to use it).

Yup, in your component, overide #template something like this:

template
   template ifNil:
	[template := IAFileTemplate new file: 'foo.html'.
	 self addHandlers].
   ^ template

Avi changed the handler stuff while I was on vacation and I've been 
working on Seaside 2 since I got back but I *think* that's right.

> Thanks,
>     Pablo.-
> 
> PS 1: Sorry for my English, it's not my natural language.

Seems pretty darn good to me :)

> PS 2: I'm looking forward to see Seaside 2 !!

So are we! ;)

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