[Seaside] Tasks, Components, Magritte and Style

[Daniel Lyons]

On Mar 8, 2011, at 11:26 PM, Daniel Lyons wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm extremely new to Seaside, and I'm getting a bit confused at the intersection between these four concepts. All I want is:
> 
> 1. Consistent style.
> 2. A Task involving a Magritte-generated component, with the same style.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the right way to get consistent style is to implement updateRoot on your component to call addStyle. How does one go about this if the root of your app is a WATask subclass? I think I'm not understanding something fundamental about either nesting components or the relationship between tasks and components, because it seems like you would want to be able to say, this component in the tree is actually the first step in a task. For example, to render a containing component that has within it a login component, but without requiring the user click on "Login" before showing the login form. I can see how to kick off a task in response to an event like clicking.

Apparently part of the answer is to add onAnswer: to an embedded component, to catch the answer and return it to a parent component. That solves one operational question, but I'm still unclear about how to do styling properly.

— 
Daniel Lyons