Hi, I've been migrating some of my T4 components to T5, but now - also triggered by some useful feedback on this mailing list - are wondering whether I've been using the right approach.
Let me start by saying that my components are fairly simple, the visible part is all made up from .tml (no programmatic render processing going on). I think it is best to share with you, one component that is built in a way that is typical for the way I've been doing stuff up until now. This is a customized 'feedback' component, which allows me to easily add feedback information from any page to a flash persisted property, for one time only display. For instance - after some action it would say: 'Import has been accepted and started'. Now the way I'm able to easily add feedback info is to have a basepage class hold on to a collection of entries and have some utility addFeedback(....) methods on that class. Each concrete page then can use these methods to add their stuff. I'm starting to think that this isn't the nicest approach, since pages that need this way of feedback functionality now have to subclass a basepage class. Another thing I have that some of my components need access to this basepage's properties - so I inject that page into the component. My main questions are: a) although this approach works - isn't it better to try and have each component stand on itself? b) if so - what would be the best way to have functionality like depicted above (regarding feedback) in order for each page to easily allow adding feedback information? Looks to me that the collection holding feedback entries should be as close - preferably within - the same code as the component itself. Let me know what you think. -J. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
