[Bese-devel] reinitializing a component slot

[Matthew Danish]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:29:32PM -0500, Matthew Danish wrote:
> Suppose I have a form which the user types in some data and presses
> Submit.  Now I have this information and I wish to update a :component
> slot with a new component with the new data.
> 
> (defcomponent view ()
>   (...
>    (body :accessor body
>          :component (table ...))))
> 
> (defaction update ((c view))
>   (setf (body c) (make-instance 'table ...???)))
> 
> Or should I be going about this differently?
> 

So far I've come up with:

(defaction update ((c view))
  (setf (body c) 
        (make-instance 'table :parent c 
                              :place (make-place (body c))
                              ...)))

This does what I want, so far.  Don't know the pitfalls.

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