[Seaside] embedding components questions

[Alexandre Paes]

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for the help, i'll look into the Announcements framework, sounds 
really interesting and exactly what i need. Thanks for the explanation 
on #children vs #states matter, now it's time to digest and master that.


Cheers,

Alex Paes


In 11/28/07 05:57 Philippe Marschall wrote:
> 2007/11/28, Alexandre Paes <alex.paes at streetdogstudio.com>:
>> Hi fellow seasider's,
>>
>> My first production application developed in seaside is almost ready,
>> but even now i'm still fighting about how to correctly embed components
>> in each other. For instance in the following scheme:
>>
>> Presenter A
>>         |
>>         ----- Presenter B (Header)
>>         |
>>         ----- Presenter C (Main application content)
>>         |           |
>>         |           ------ Presenter D (rendered inside Presenter C
>> render routine)
>>         |
>>         ----- Presenter E (Footer)
>>
>>
>> How can i go about having Presenter C or even Presenter A react to
>> events in Presenter D? i've been trying to use #onAnswer: but i must
>> admit all has been in vain so far.
> 
> http://onsmalltalk.com/programming/smalltalk/maintaining-loose-coupling-in-seaside-components/
> Just remember to unsubscribe your components once you don't need them
> anymore. Yes, this is kinda like manual memory managemnt. It would be
> much easier if we had reliable weak references. An other option would
> be to scope announcers to components and not the session.
> 
>> Another question i have is about differences between #children and
>> #states methods in WAComponent. I've read on some post that #states
>> behaves like the old #registerObjectForBacktracking but since i have
>> never used this one either i'm having quite a hard time figuring this
>> out.
> 
> #children returns all the direct child components of a component. That
> is every component you directly #render:.
> 
> #states returns the state to be backtracked by Seaisde if the user
> uses the back button. If the contents of #children can change over
> time then you need #states to make the back button work. The easiest
> way is to return a collection (mostly Array) with only self. If you
> have your children in a collection you can simply return this
> collection.
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
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