[Bese-devel] Re: reinitializing a component slot

[Marco Baringer]

Matthew Danish wrote:
> 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.

that works and the only problem you'll run into is call/answer'ing the
new table component.

why don't you just use call and answer on the body component instead of
the view component?

-- 
-Marco
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