[Seaside] Newbie problem with Seaside
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Wed Mar 3 21:58:51 CET 2004
On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Vincent wrote:
> Hi, I made a small crossword helper program with Seaside
> (http://darkhost.mine.nu:9090/seaside/crossword/). I am french, and I
> thought it would be nice to give users the possibility of choosing
> either a french or an english dictionary.
>
> Now, I am not sure how to proceed about this, I want to have a page
> where the user clicks on a SubmitButton to choose the language he wants
> and then have the main program (linked above) show up and use the
> chosen
> dictionary.
>
> How would I go about it?
I would do it something like this. Have a component named
DictionaryChoice with methods #french and #english that return the
appropiate dictionary objects (I don't know how you're building them so
I won't show the implementation). Then its renderContentOn: shows the
user two buttons and answers the appropriate dictionary:
renderContentOn: html
html form: [
html submitButtonWithAction: [self answer: self english] text:
'English'.
html space.
html submitButtonWithAction: [self answer: self french] text:
'French'.
Then set up a subclass of WATask named CrosswordTask whose #go method
looks like this:
go
dict := self call: (DictionaryChoice withMessage: 'Choose a
language:').
self call: (CrosswordHelper new dictionary: dict).
Of course I don't know what your current component is called or if it
has a #dictionary: setter, but you can hopefully adapt this to fit.
CrosswordTask should then be the entry point for your application.
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