[Seaside] Links and Components doubts

[Andres Fortier]

Hi Sebastian,
                       you may be interested in WANavigation and 
WASimpleNavigation for the menu stuff (I based on those classes to 
make a custom menu).

You may also want to take a look at WADecoration, which can help you 
to decouple the header/footer from the main page:

WADecoration:
I am an abstract decoration around instances of WAComponent. I can be 
added to aComponent by calling #addDecoration: and I change the basic 
behaviour or look of a component. There are several methods that can 
be overriden to archive this:

- #renderContentOn: to emit xhtml around the decorated component. Call 
#renderOwnerOn: to let the owner emit its output.
- #processChildCallbacks: to intercept the callback processing of the 
owner.
- #handleAnswer: to intercept the answer processing.

HTH,
         Andrés

Sebastian Van Lacke escribió:
> Hello, 
> 
> I'm from Argentina and I am working on a Seaside project. I don't speak English very well, so I hope you understand...
> 
> I need to recreate an old site using Seaside, and I and I'm having problems with the structure of the site.
> 
> My page has a header, menu, and a footer (which are repeated throughout the site) and a body that changes for each page of the site, 
> depending on the option chosen on the menu.
> 
> CSRootComponent>>renderContentOn: html
>  html div
>   id:'allContent';
>   with:[
>    html render: header.
>    html render: menu.
>    self renderBodyOn: html.
>    html render: footer.
>   ]
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The component menu, displays a horizontal menu with links to different pages on the site.
> 
> CSMenuComponent>>renderContentOn: html
>  html div
>   id: 'menu';
>   with: [
>    html unorderedList: [
>     self  renderMenuItemsOn: html.
>     ].
>   ].
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CSMenuComponent>>renderMenuItemsOn: html
> 
>  menuItems do: [:item |
>   html listItem with: [
>    html anchor 
>     callback: item value;
>     with: item key.
>   ].
>  ]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> CSMenuComponent>>initialize
>  
>  super initialize.
>  menuItems := OrderedCollection new.
>  self addMenuItem: 'Company Info' withBlock: [ self companyInfo].
>  self addMenuItem: 'Products' withBlock: [ self products ].
>  self addMenuItem: 'Downloads' withBlock: [ self downloads ].
>  self addMenuItem: 'Resources' withBlock: [ self resources ].
>  self addMenuItem: 'Support' withBlock: [ self support ].
>  self addMenuItem: 'Contact Us' withBlock: [ self contactUs ].
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> where each of the links should display a new page with the same structure as before, but with a different body.
> 
> It is right to create a component for each link ? For example, CSCompanyInfoComponent for companyInfo link.
> How I call that component, from CSMenuComponent>>companyInfo method, to render in a new page??
> I am confused by the fact that I don't have a renderCanvas to speak in that context.
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
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