Re: RE: CrumbsTag idea

I completely understand the overwhelmed feeling.  Take your time and 
send us the patch when things lighten up for you. There's no hurry. ;-)

Matt

On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Aron Gombas wrote:

>  Matt,
>
>  OK, glad you liked the idea, I'll try to find the time during this or
> the next week and send you a real patch.
>  I'm more than overwhelmed at this moment. :|
>  Thanks.
>
>  Aron Gombas
>  3NF Corporation
>  www.3nf.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Raible [mailto:lists-T7vlz3gD7BdF/EzeuO4KJwC/[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:01 PM
> To: struts-menu-user-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> Cc: 'Aron Gombas'
> Subject: Re: [struts-menu] RE: CrumbsTag idea
>
>
> Aron,
>
> This looks like good stuff.  The best way to get this added to the
> project is to:
>
> 1.  Download the source from CVS and add your tag in.
> 2.  Provide an example in the sample application.
> 3.  Write documentation in the xdocs directory.
> 4.  Create a patch and submit it to the bug tracker.
>
> I can help with editing #3.
>
> If you don't know how to create a patch, I can provide details on that
> - or you can just zip up the modifed project and send it to me via
> dropload.com.  If you do this, the important part is making your
> changes in a CVS version of the project so I can see what's changed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Scott Sayles wrote:
>
>> Hey Aron,
>>
>> Sounds interesting.  Unfortunately, at this point, I have little to do
>> with StrutsMenu.  I just don't' have the time.  Matt has been the one
>> heading things up recently.  I'll copy you to the user list as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Aron Gombas [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:51 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: CrumbsTag idea
>>>
>>>
>>>  Hi Scott!
>>>
>>>  First, sorry for my poor English.
>>>  We're using the struts-menu package in a current project, and I had
>>> the idea that I'd use it also for generating a "crumbs control",
>>> because both the title keys and the URL's are available in
>>> menu-config.xml, and
>>> I don't really need anything else for the crumbs.
>>>
>>>  First, I thought I'd use the VelocityMenuDisplayer with some tricky
>>> macros to render my menu to a format like "link1 > link2 > link3",
>>> but then I had to realize that I can't pass in an arbitrary list
>>> of links to
>>> the existing DisplayMenuTag, I can pass only a menu.
>>>  So I had the choice to:
>>>  a - create a dummy menu to each page (each configuration of
>>> links) and
>>> render it with Velocity
>>> b - implement a separate tag which would receive the list of links as
>>> attrib and use the MenuRepository object from the session-scope
>>>
>>>  I decided to do b, to have the following syntax (as you see I needed
>>> to support EL):
>>>
>>>  ...
>>>  <wasp:crumbs links="menu.home, menu.domains,
>>> buildingStructureTypeList. title, ${titleKey}"/>  ...
>>>
>>>  The tag class evaluates and breaks up the "links" attib, and builds
>>> the HTML from the localized resource strings plus the URL's generated
>>> by struts-menu.
>>>  Not a big deal, but works perfectly and hyper-lightweight,
>>> and you can
>>> actually improve it to a real general tag:
>>> - now the formatstrings are just hard-wired to the .java, but you can
>>> easily externalize them to some .properties file (as I plan
>>> to do that
>>> later)
>>> - also, getting the resources is Struts-dependent, so you
>>> might want to
>>> make changes in order to make it framework-independent
>>> - adding extra attribs like e.g. "class" to make it look more
>>> standard
>>> is also a good idea
>>>
>>>  It's really just half-made, not more than an idea.
>>>  I thought you might be interested in this. Plz ignore my todo-tags
>>> in Hungarian. ;)
>>>  Thanks for reading.
>>>
>>>  Aron Gombas
>>>  3NF Corporation
>>>  www.3nf.com
>>>
>>>  PS. I'm not subscribed to the devel-list, so plz write me directly
>>> if you needed to communicate with me.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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