[Catalyst] Re: questions on Reaction

[Matt S Trout]

On 2 Jan 2007, at 21:20, Daniel McBrearty wrote:

> gotcha. The only part I had to put in Root.pm was the
> __PACKAGE__->config( ... ), which is logical.
>
> I found a lot of templates under root/base ... including 'xhtml' which
> at some point calls
>
> [% INCLUDE header;
> window.render_viewport(self.inner); %]
>
> which I guess then runs down the various objects that were added with
> $self->push_viewport(ViewPort, 'blah')  in the controllers.

Basically, yes.

> These templates have lots of apparently widget-orientated stuff ... is
> this library code or app code used to generate the crud stuff? how do
> I set up where it lives in my app?

Currently, using a symlink, because I've not come up with a general  
solution and wanted something trivial to rip out once I do.

To add your own templates, stick 'em in root/ of your app, do an  
INCLUDE on whichever base template you're subclassing and then define  
BLOCKS appropriately plus setting the appropriate foo_block var to  
the name of your own blocks - ISTR listview subclasses listview_base  
in the default stuff as a reasonably simple example.

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