[Bese-devel] Question on project structure

[Marco Baringer]

etyurin at comcast.net writes:

> Hi!
>
> Still trying to understand the "proper ways" of doing things with UCW...

me too. :)

> Suppose I want to modify the visual appearance of, say, tabbed-pane
> - like bold instead of fixed-width font for the active tab.
>
> Is there a way to "feed" an alternative .tal file instead of
> duplicating the whole code of tabbed-pane (yes, whooping two files
> .lisp and .tal)?

(defcomponent my-tabbed-pane (tabbed-pane)
  ()
  (:default-initargs :template-name "my-tal-file.tal"))

> Conversely, there's login.lisp component that specifies login.tal -
> however there's no login.tal file anywhere in the tree...  This
> doesn't prevent login from functioning though...

true enough. login defines its own render-on method, so the
template-component's render-on doesn't get called. i'll kill the
:default-initargs asap.

-- 
-Marco
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