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Re: [GEN] Template Handler

• Posted by brian_keene at yahoo.com Sep 26, 2001
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Hi Dan:
What about the possibility of someone finding a (THE FORCE FORBID!) bug
in a template.  I don't see how you would replace that template with
your stated feature list.

Regards
Brian Keene

--- Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 
> Since my "Template Handler" needs Templates to be useful, and they
> would
> presumably be added semi-regularly, I have to make some nice simple
> way to
> accomplish this "update".
> 
> Here's what I have thought of, maybe you all can see flaws or
> improvements
> for it?
> 
> TEMPLATE UPDATE FEATURE DETAILS:
> 
> 1.  An "update" file would have TWO parts:
>    a)  new FILES (ie, new CATEGORIES of templates);
>    b)  new TEMPLATES to be added to EXISTING categories;
> 
> 2.  The "update facility" would read in the update file, put all of
> the NEW
> FILES info into ONE VARIABLE (or section of a sequence), all of NEW
> TEMPLATES into ANOTHER variable (or second part of main);
> 
> 3.  Update facility *compares* FILENAMES from update file against a
> dir of
> folder;  puts all filenames *not* in dir into a combo box, asks user
> to
> either select which ones to add, or "add all";  selected new files
> are
> written to new template files;
> 
> 4.  Update facility then compares NEW template NAMES against names in
> existing appropriate categories (each category is a separate file);
> puts any
> "new" templates NOT already in an existing file into a tabbed folder
> of
> combo boxes, with ability to select which to add, and an "add all in
> this
> category" button; also an overall "add *all* new templates" button
> outside
> tabbed folder; selected templates are written to end of existing
> template
> files.
> 
> 5.  The "Templates Update File" NAME might be something like: 
> UpdTempl.AA1
> (incrementing the extent for each new update, so people could know if
> they
> have updated with it before or not); and after an update, user given
> choice
> to either DELETE the file which just updated the Templates, or to
> SAVE it as
> "BakTempl.AA1"
> 
> Does this make sense, or have I missed something that should be done
> to make
> updating templates easy?
> 
> Dan Moyer
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Moyer"
> >
> > I've sent Robert a program called "Template Handler", which intends
> to
> make
> > it easy to store & retrieve snippets or "templates" of code, for
> both
> > Euphoria and Win32Lib (could be extended to EDS etc, too).  Anyone
> who's
> > interested, please check it out & let me know what you think of it.
> >
> > It seems to work well, except I don't have many TEMPLATES to
> include
> > with it!
> >
> > So I'm hoping maybe some of you will contribute code snippets for
> > it.  You could either *use* the Template Handler to create template
> > contributions (good exercise for it), or just send code snippets
> here so
> > others could comment upon or improve them (could make for better
> snippets).
> >
> > With "comment or improve" in mind, here's a sample template I might
> include
> > with it later (if you want to use it with the Handler, just save it
> to a
> > file and use an extent ".etp", for "Euphoria TemPlate"); it has two
> > templates in it, and the Handler does NOT show all the "!!"
> comments, just
> > the name, description, and code.
> >
> > Dan Moyer
> >
> > following could be put into a file, eg "Seq1.etp", to use with the
> handler:
> >
> <snip proto-template>
> 
> 
>