Okay that is great Leslie, So i will work on porting the js files to jquery and will implement the functionality in this weekend. By that way hopefully ver 0.8.3 will have support out of the box for both jquery and prototype :)
Mackram On Jul 1, 12:23 pm, "Leslie P. Polzer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mackram wrote: > > > So i have been looking at the doc and trying to understand how > > weblocks deals with javascript. Now from my assessment the porting of > > the js files as mentioned in the js-backend-absraction. And my > > understanding is that we would like to have a function define- > > javascript-backend which will define the framework you will include > > (along with the corrected ported files). > > Yes, the idea is to have several backends like this > > pub/scripts/backends > /prototype > /jquery > /yui > > Each one of those would have a matching DEFINE-JAVASCRIPT-BACKEND > expression. > > Each webapp could then select one of those by its unique name. > > Example: > > (defwebapp foo :prefix "/" :javascript-backend prototype) > > > Now my problem is trying to > > figure out where weblocks adds all its js code. A bit of search lead > > me to application.lisp where the different js files are appended. > > However the demo outputs a combined file > > Note: you can turn this off by specifying :DEBUG T. > > > .... how does it do it and where does the aggregator, so to speak, > > gets its list of files? > > The list of files is fed into COMPACT-DEPENDENCIES which in turn > calls BUNDLE-DEPENDENCIES. See bundling.lisp and versioning.lisp > for the whole fun. > > But I don't think you need to understand bundling. You just > need to parameterize the list of default application dependencies > (in application.lisp) on the selected js backend. > > Leslie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weblocks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
