| Newbie questions about Pliant
section blocks - goto commands
A debate on how to keep multiple web pages in a single
file while keeping the *.page file readable. |
| Message posted by maybe Bryan on 2002/06/08 18:05:18 |
Is there a way to create section blocks in a *.page file? I would to know
because the indentation requirements can result in a line starting halfway
across the page.
Eg.
center
table columns 2
cell
[blah]
cell
center
button "blah"
title "results"
center
table.....
....
And so on.
Instead, after the button, there should be a goto command which
refers to an area further down the page. A section should conventionally
contain only "new" pages.
I read through some of the code. The "part" function is inappropriate because
it does not let you move to other section blocks. I saw some goto commands
but they didn't work (I think I found them in *.c files anyway).
Is there a goto command available? I know and understand why goto commands
should be generally avoided but I think, in the case of pliant
*.page documentation/readability (and programming... it's a hassle to
setup all those spaces), that they should be made available. |
| Message posted by maybe Hubert Tonneau on 2002/06/09 09:16:04 |
One could implement a 'goto' meta, but it would not solve your problem because
in your sample .page, there are truely two functions: the overall page, and
the action under the button, so it would be hard to implement a 'goto'
instruction that let you jump from one to the other.
On the other hand, you could write it that way:
method page my_button
arg_rw HtmlPage page
title "results"
center
table.....
center
table columns 2
cell
[blah]
cell
center
button "blah"
my_button
If the 'my_button' method needs to use some of the variables of the overall
page, then you need to pass these arguments explicitely to the method.
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| Message posted by maybe Bryan on 2002/06/09 19:00:09 |
That's my point; if you defer the button action to another *.page or a method
then you need to pass arguments. So to avoid creating extra files and/or extra code
to support the passing of "messages" we keep everything in a single *.page file.
But this results in the task of indenting. I think the indentation requirements
are great, but there should be "shortcuts" to help us out. I'd like to see
something like the following:
title "my title"
center
table columns 1
cell header
[this is a long header]
cell
center
button
goto button_action
section button_action
title "the results"
center
[in the *.page file, this would have started half-way across the page] |
| Message posted by maybe Hubert Tonneau on 2002/06/09 19:52:15 |
Might be interesting, but that's not high in my priorities list, so don't expect
much from me in this area.
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| Message posted by maybe Bryan on 2002/06/10 00:16:57 |
That's ok; I just wanted to know if that feature already existed, and if not
to suggest that it should be added at some point. |