[Yanel-dev] Patch: Make toolbar replaceable

[Rob Adamson]

Hi Simon,

On 6 January 2011 19:28, simon <simon at 333.ch> wrote:
> Am 06.01.2011 10:56, schrieb Cedric Staub:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:37:35AM +0100, simon wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW
>>> i think we should consider to implement the menu into a resource-type.
>>> this way it would be easy to replace it by another menu (resource-type)
>>
>> Yes, I think that would be the best course of action too. Do you have
>> some ideas as to how this could best be done? I would be interested in
>> implementing this.
>
> i think it shouldn't be to hard. there would be a resource which provides
> the html snippets containing the content of the toolbar  and also a html
> header snippet which would content references to js and css files needed for
> the toolbar. it also would provide this js and css files.
>
> i would extend such a resource from the usecase-resource which alows the use
> of jelly. this would make it possible to change the content of the snippets
> fast and easy.
>
> yanel would ask via global resource config for this html snippets and
> integrate these into the page. similar to now. but now the toolbar/menu
> content comes from org.wyona.yanel.servlet.menu.Menu.java. and the header
> snippet is harcoded somwhere.
>
> i also think then the step towards ajax menus wouldn't very big anymore.
>
> WDOT?

Sounds good to me. At the moment, constructing a custom toolbar is
painful as none of the Yanel resource/template infrastructure is
available.

Rob