Hi Barry, Please add RSS on your blog when you have the time. Nice Work !
Cheers, Dragan Sahpaski On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Barry Books <trs...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to implement a new site using Twitter Bootstrap so I've been > working on a Tapestry module to support Bootstrap. The module will be > hosted here https://github.com/trsvax/tapestry-bootstrap and will be > licensed Apache2. > > I've been thinking about how to implement a MediaGrid that uses the > pagination provided by Bootstrap. In doing so I've tried to solve some > of the problems I've had with the Tapestry Grid component. > Specifically that would be use of an event to move from page to page > and the difficulty of controlling the pieces that make up the grid. So > I've come up with a design that uses Environmental and Mixins to build > the grid. > > In summary the individual pieces that make up the grid get their > parameters from the environment like this > > @Property > @Environmental > private PaginationEnvironment values; > > @Parameter(value="values.currentPage",required=true) > private Integer currentPage; > > There is a mixin that contains all the controlling logic and pushes > the values into the environment so you end up with a template like > this > > <t:any t:mixins="tb/pager" source="items"> > <t:tb.pagination/> > <t:tb.mediagrid row="item"> > <a href="#123"> > <img class="thumbnail" src="${url}"/> > <h3>${item.mediaTitle}</h3><button > class="btn">+</button> > </a> > </t:tb.mediagrid> > <t:tb.pagination/> > </t:any> > > I've written a longer description here http://trsvax.com/blog > > One question would Metadata be a better way to solve this? I've never > used that feature before. Secondly does this seem like a good > approach? And finally are there any pitfalls I have not thought of? > > Thanks > Barry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > >
