Well, I don't like hardcoded magic numbers either. :-)

My original proposal is purposely simple, only one file is invoked, so
I hope to impress Massimo to make it official. :-P   If Massimo adapts
your proposal, it is definitely better. :-)

On Apr18, 5:32am, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any reason these colors need to be hardcoded "magic numbers"
> (literal constants), rather than symbolic & programmatic?
> For example:
>
>        {{if isinstance(response.flash,dict):}}
>          <div class="flash" style="{{="color:"+flash.color}}";
> background:{{={
>            'info':flash.info, #light green by default 0.py
>            'warn':flash.warn, #light yellow by default
>            'error':flash.error, #light pink - blech! make that red by
> default ;-)
>            }.get(response.flash.keys()[0],flash.some_var_to_hold
> this_last_ugly_constant) # what is this? #FFC')}}">
>          {{=response.flash.values()[0]}}</div>
>        {{elif response.flash:}}
>          <div class="flash">{{=response.flash}}</div>
>        {{pass}}
>
> (you get the idea that I dislike "magic number" constants ;-)).
>
> There is probably some better way than this, but getting the constants under
> application control is what I'm trying to suggest.
>
> Regards,
> -Yarko
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:54 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > I like it. This may not be compatible with this
> >http://www.web2py.com/events/default/index
> > but we can find a combination of the two that works.
>
> > On Apr 17, 1:49 pm, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> > > On Apr17, 2:37am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > > On Apr16, 3:05pm, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > On Apr 16, 3:13 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Currently I think most of us use response.flash as a resort to give
> > > > > > all kinds of feedback.
>
> > > > > I have this in my model:
>
> > > > > def shn_sessions(f):
> > > > >     ...
>
> > > > > My layout.html contains:
> > > > > ...
>
> > > > > My CSS:
> > > > > ...
>
> > > > Glad to have Fran and Jason's feedback. Fran's example is more
> > > > intuitive, although he forgot to mention similar modification is
> > > > needed in web2py_ajax.html, by the way I use the name response.info
> > > > instead of response.confirmation.
>
> > > Further improvement for Fran's work. Now I don't need to modify model
> > > or style.css or web2py_ajax.html, just put this little patch into the
> > > layout.html to replace the original flash part:
>
> > >         {{if isinstance(response.flash,dict):}}
> > >           <div class="flash" style="color:#070; background:{{={
> > >             'info':'#E5FFE5', #light green
> > >             'warn':'#FFC', #light yellow
> > >             'error':'#FFE5E5', #light pink
> > >             }.get(response.flash.keys()[0],'#FFC')}}">
> > >           {{=response.flash.values()[0]}}</div>
> > >         {{elif response.flash:}}
> > >           <div class="flash">{{=response.flash}}</div>
> > >         {{pass}}
>
> > > Now you can use these convention in your controller:
> > >     response.flash={'warn':'your input is unusual, but anyway the data
> > > is accepted'}
> > > or:
> > >     response.flash={'info':'ok, data is accepted'}
> > > or:
> > >     response.flash={'error':'Something is wrong'}
> > > and the best thing is, it is still backward compatible, you can still
> > > use old response.flash='appear in an orange bar'
>
> > > To Massimo: Hope you like it enough so that you will include this
> > > inside the out-of-box web2py. :-)
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