[Seaside] Displaying Seaside Components in frames

Thu Aug 21 12:51:22 CEST 2003

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Ben Schroeder wrote:

> Here's something like my code for creating the response.
>
> 	| response |
> 	response _ WAGenericResponse new
> 		nextPutAll: '<html><frameset rows="10%, 90%">';
> 		nextPutAll: '<frame src="';
> 		nextPutAll: (html urlForAction: [self call: PrintOrFax new]);
> 		nextPutAll: '" />';
> 		nextPutAll: '<frame src="';
> 		nextPutAll: self imageUrl;
> 		nextPutAll: '"/>';
> 		nextPutAll: '</frameset></html>'.
>
> 	self session returnResponse: response.

Hi Ben,

That'll certainly work, although it's not really necessary to go to that
low a level.  I might have used a render method something like this:

html attributes rows: '10%, 90%'.
html frameset: [
  html attributes src: (html urlForAction: [self call: PrintOrFax new]).
  html frame.
  html attributes src: self imageUrl.
  html frame
]

An obvious thing that should be done to clean this up is to implement
#frameWithUrl: and #frameWithAction: on HtmlBuilder and HtmlRenderer
respectively; this would then become

html attributes rows: '10%, 90%'.
html frameset: [
  html frameWithAction: [self call: PrintOrFax new].
  html frameWithUrl: self imageUrl.
]

>From there, you might or might not want to build a generic FrameSet
component...

Cheers,
Avi