Comments on: Seaside menus

By: miguel.coba

miguel.coba — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:24:11 +0000

First things first: it's Smalltalk and Seaside. In http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html you can find many very good books to learn Smalltalk. And for Seaside you can browse the documentation in http://seaside.st/ The tutorial from http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial is the most updated one.

By: LowGmaN

LowGmaN — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:58:37 +0000

So… as a clueless newbie in small talk and seaside… where should I start? And I mean… “cluUUUUeless newbie”

By: miguel.coba

miguel.coba — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:33:24 +0000

I don’t understand you very well, but you can do any action before swaping components for the content. For example, if you want to record the time when each component was removed, you can add a new instvar to MDMain called removedTime and then, in the message to swap components:

listContacts
“Register the time when the component was swapped”
“Can be any action”
self doWantedAction.
content := MDContactList new.

doWantedAction
“Here we register the timestamp”
removedTime := Time now.

Was that helpful?

By: Oleg Richards

Oleg Richards — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:09:02 +0000

Thanks! Was very helpful for me. What can you recommend if i need automatically do something in active component before switching to the new one?

By: miguel.coba

miguel.coba — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:13:10 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I have updated the post accordingly.

By: Ramon Leon

Ramon Leon — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:40:26 +0000

FYI, a shortcut for this…

html anchor
callback: [self newContact];
with: ‘New Contact’.

is this…

html anchor on: #newContact of: self.

By: miguel.coba

miguel.coba — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:12:10 +0000

Just my 2 cents

By: Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:27:01 +0000

Thanks for referencing my post, and elaborating with more useful code!