[Seaside] Static link to get variables

[Brad Fuller]

Florian Minjat wrote:
> My aim is to embed a flash menu in my seaside app.
> So I need to feed this flash menu with the different links. Thoses
> links must be the equivalent of a message call to a seaside component.
>
> I could use the #initialRequest: method to send GET variables to the
> seaside app from the flash menu. But when I tried this method, the
> context was lost (my app requires an authentification).
>
> I am trying the method suggested by Lukas with :
> url := html context actionUrl withParameter: (html callbacks
> registerActionCallback: [ mycall ]).
> And it seems to work. I need to make more tests to be sure.
Old msg... but, did you ever finalize this issue? Any solution? How are
you doing with using flash? talking back and forth between seaside and
the embedded flash app.

any war stories? :-)

brad

>
> Florian
>
> Avi Bryant wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Florian Minjat wrote:
>>
>>> Nobody knows how to do that or is it impossible for the moment with
>>> Seaside ? Or perhaps nobody understood what I meant.
>>
>> I'm not exactly clear on what you meant, no.  Where do you want to be
>> able to get this URL from?
>>
>> Avi
>>
>>> Florian
>>>
>>> Florian Minjat wrote:
>>>> Thanks !
>>>>   So now i know how to handle request like
>>>> http://.../seaside/myApp?foo=bar to start my app.
>>>>   A little more complex now : I want to do the same, but from an
>>>> integrated flash menu. The trick is that I don't want to loose my
>>>> session and context. I tried by just adding the '&foo=bar' at the
>>>> end of the url (
>>>> http://.../seaside/myApp?_k=UeGCjSsi&_s=OTvjybecbYCHpKsn&foo=bar)
>>>> and it seemed to work, but I don't know how to get this string for
>>>> a particuliar action. Any idea ?
>>>> Florian
>>>> Avi Bryant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 7, 2006, at 12:52 AM, Dmitry Dorofeev wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You need to subclass WARenderLoopMain
>>>>>> and implement (start: aRequest) method
>>>>>
>>>>> There's a somewhat easier way to do this in recent versions of
>>>>> Seaside - after the initial component tree is created by
>>>>> #createRoot, every component in the tree will be sent
>>>>> #initialRequest: with the request object that started the
>>>>> session.  This can be especially effective when paired with a
>>>>> WATask subclass as the root, so that it can, eg, present a login
>>>>> page as needed depending on the request.
>>>>>
>>>>> Avi