[Seaside] Design Question of a very small game

[Avi Bryant]

On Oct 22, 2004, at 4:27 PM, Jon Paynter wrote:

> So in this case where you have a page with several hundred links (or 
> in my case, a big semi-dynamic menu).... What is the pattern to use?

I'm not sure what you mean; normally those hundreds of links would be 
generated in a loop, and the lexical context (the block args in the 
loop) would provide the information you need about exactly which link 
was clicked.

> My app doesnt have #call: directly in renderContentOn: ...  it calls 
> instance methods which in turn call other components.
>
> example:
>>> renderConentOn: html
> .....
> html linkWithAction: [self heal] text: 'heal';break.
>
>>> heal
> | app |
> app := WAHeal new.
> app character: self selectedCharacter.
> app game: self game.
> self call: app.
> -------------------------
>
> That pattern gets repeated for many different functions.

Yes, that looks pretty normal.

> And as an afterthought -- the only time I DID try the task calls 
> component pattern, I got wierd results.

Can you elaborate?

Avi