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[Avi Bryant]

On Oct 20, 2004, at 12:13 PM, Yar Hwee Boon wrote:

> It's a navigation bar where there's links to several different 
> "screens". I wouldn't be #answer:-ing from those calls. I take it 
> that, I should send #home before a second (or third, etc) #call then.

If you're not #answer:-ing, why are you #call:-ing?

This is something that I need to find a way to emphasize better, in the 
Seaside documentation or the examples: there's no reason to overuse 
#call:.  If your navigation bar is a way of switching between a set of 
components, why not model it that way?  Take the tab component 
(WASimpleNavigation) as an example: have a collection of the 
components, and have your #renderContentOn: simply pick the right one 
and render it.  The links in the nav bar just switch which component is 
currently chosen (using a 'selected' inst var or some such).  You could 
quite easily build an entire Seaside app without ever using 
#call:/answer:, and there's really no reason to incur that overhead 
unless you need to.

Avi