[Bese-devel] Creating a UCW component?

[Attila Lendvai]

> And I'd like to be able to create a instance of the component "off-line", i.e. something like this:
>
> (make-instance 'my-component)
>
> However, this doesn't work and I get the error message:

i've got a single local patch that i considered not generally useful
and therefore did not push to the official repos, and it is exactly
this. it makes it possible to create components without a
context/session.

my usecase is components used as views. they are part of the component
structure that describe what should be rendered, but they are not
directly rendered themselves. (e.g. (render-poperty renderer view),
where view holds some :component slots, etc, but 'render will never be
called on it)

some of these views are :stateless t, iow singletons, used for mere
dispatch purposes and they are created at load-time.

i still don't think that this patch should be in the official repo in
it's current form, though. but i'll send it to you directly tomorrow
(it's only a one-liner unless around some part of the
initialize-instance of component) and after drewc's refactor is
slowing down we may find a better solution for this. (this may be also
ok, i just didn't invest the time to think through the consequences)

-- 
- attila

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