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Re: [GEN] Template Handler

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Sep 26, 2001
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Brian,

Hmm, you're right, I was just thinking about *adding* new templates in
updates, not about *fixing* bent ones!  I am planning on giving the facility
to do that semi-manually in the Handler itself, with "edit" choice "replace
an existing template with code in edit box", (as well as "delete" a
template), maybe if I implement that *first*, then I might be able to use
that in relation to update files, maybe a token or whatever you call it in
the update file for "replace that template with this one".

Thanks!

Got any templates you could contribute?  :)

Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: <brian_keene at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:54 AM
Subject: Re: [GEN] Template Handler


>
> 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.
> > >
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