I just built a dojo tab component for tapestry 3 today and had the same feature request. (Being that someone can change the tab dynamically via javascript on the html page and have that state remembered on the server so it is displayed as-is on next page refresh)
It's pretty easy. Create the component as you normally would, except make it extend AbstractFormComponent (or implement IFormComponent). What I did was extend AbstractFormComponent but did the render logic in such a way that it could work in/out of a containing form. When rendered within a form it adds a hidden input field to the form (it's part of the IForm interface) which I then update via a tiny javascript call on the client. When the component is rewound it just checks for a parameter with its component name as any form component would and happily updates the selected tab state if it finds it. (But doesn't require/validate the input). Maybe it's not as easy sounding now that I say it, might just be getting too familiar with tapestry for my own good... On 7/19/06, Daniel Jue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, <Using Tapestry 4, Tomcat 5.5, new to Tapestry> I am trying to write a simple menu screen, with main menu items and one list of sub menu items for each main menu item. I am duplicating the look and feel of an existing system, where the main and sub menus are on the same screen, but in different tables. Right now I have a MainMenuComponent that renders a list of links. This component is embedded in a table on Home.html. In the next column of this table I want the related sub menus to appear. The default should be as if the first main menu item was clicked, and I can get that with an embedded sub menu component. But when a user actually clicks a main menu object, I want the Home.html to re-render itself, and the SubMenuComponent to know what was clicked so it can render the right sub menu items. What is the best way to store this (session?) info of what was clicked, so that the SubMenuComponent can have it as input? Should my MainMenuComponent have SubMenuComponent listed inside it? I think this "issue" i'm having is similar to using a Tab navigation system without a Border component. Maybe someone can point me to a very vanilla tapestry Tab tutorial (not the big workbench example) In fact, I would prefer to use tabs in the future, especially if there were no reloads between tabs(using ajax / tacos?) But for now, I'd like to know how to do it this way. Thanks for any input, this is my first post. -Dan
-- Jesse Kuhnert Tacos/Tapestry, team member/developer Open source based consulting work centered around dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind.
