Sidebars in our application will change from page to page. Normally,
I'd just pass them from the page to the layout as a block defined in
the page. However, some sidebars will have forms whose events I'd
like to trap within the sidebar. Blocks can't do that of course. So
I want my sidebar to be a component that can trap the event.
I can do this by putting this on my page:
<t:layout sidebar="mySidebar">
...
<t:if test="false">
<t:pageSpecificSidebar />
</t:if>
...
</t:layout>
Then in the page class, I can do @InjectComponent private Sidebar
_pageSpecificSidebar; public Sidebar getMySidebar() {return
_mySidebar; }. Another possibility is to have the <div id="sidebar">
in the page template rather than layout, but I'd rather keep the
"sidebar" code in the layout.
I don't like having to use the <t:if> statement there to prevent the
rendering of the sidebar in the page. I'm sure there's a better way
to do this. Suggestions?
Bill
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