Hello all,

this is probably a total neewbie question so i appologize if the answer is
straight forward.

i am trying to create some templates that will alleiviate the need for
repetative typing. i use CSS for all positioing and have developed a set of
CSSClasses that handle the layouts of forms. for instance i have a formRow
class and a formCol class. that are used like this:
<div class=formRow>
    <div class=formCol>
         'content here
    </div>
    <div class=formRow>
        'more stuff
    </div>
</div>

so heres my question: is there a way i can create a set of templates that
works together to handle this output. i can create a simple fr template that
expands the form row and a sperate one for the column, but is there a way to
call the column from within the row that way it is nested inside the row.
for example i could have another template that is frc that would expand both
the fr and the fc but make the fc nested?

is this making sence, i hope it is.

along those same lines, is there a way that i could pass in a number
variable and have something expand a template that many times. in the
context of the form rows and column it would be nice if i could do something
like frc3 where the 3 is the veriable and have that many columns nested in
the row.

Thanks in advance for any help, i very much appreciate it.

Micah

> so heres my question: is there a way i can create a set of templates
> that works together to handle this output. i can create a simple fr
> template that expands the form row and a sperate one for the column,
> but is there a way to call the column from within the row that way it
> is nested inside the row. for example i could have another template
> that is frc that would expand both the fr and the fc but make the fc
> nested?

A template can be expanded/called from within another template by referencing
it thus.

-------------------------------------------------------------
frc template
-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------
fc template
-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------
fr template
-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------

Does this do what you're after?

I'm guessing that the forum will poorly encode some of the above so I will
say that :fc and :fr are each supposed to be surrounded by chevrons. That
is to say a symbol which resembles the c# bit shift operators <>

> along those same lines, is there a way that i could pass in a number
> variable and have something expand a template that many times. in the
> context of the form rows and column it would be nice if i could do
> something like frc3 where the 3 is the veriable and have that many
> columns nested in the row.

Sorry, I don't think I've seen this second idea implemented anywhere.

Wow did that ever get mangled

Ok forget the worked example.

basically you can reference another template by using the chevron symbols
in the following way

<>

Thus you can create templates for "fc" and "fr" and reference then from a
template called "frc"

Please let me know if this isn't very clear.

Thanks for your response. i have thought of this, but it doesnt work properly let me explain why.

 in the fr template there is

<div class=fr>

</div>

in the fc template there is

<div class=fc>

</div>

so reference them as you suggested would produce this

<div class=fr></div><div class=fc></div>

where as i need them to be

<div class=fr>

  <div class=fc>

  </div>

</div

The nesting is where i am getting hung at.

Did that make sense?

 

Ok this is Way out of hand now

Syntax = &gt;&gt;:SomeTemplate&lt;&lt;

The double symbols are supposed to represent chevrons.

Fingers crossed. This might even be viewable

AFAIK: Templates do not have much in the way of conditional logic.
Therefore you cannot have a template that both contains a nested reference and also does not contain this nested reference.

Perhaps the best and most flexible way of doing this would be to just use "fr" and "fc" templates.
-------------------------------------------------------------
<div class=fr>
   «Caret»
</div>«Marker»
-------------------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------------------------------------
<div class=fc>
   «Caret»
</div>«Marker»
-------------------------------------------------------------

 I can then create what you are after with a little more typing but not much

fr<space>fr<space><esc><enter>fc<space>

In this manner you will have built the tools you need to produce any combination you need.

If this is not sufficient then I think you will have to build additional templates to represent frec ( fr with embedded c) and possibly fcer (fc with embedded r)

I hope this helps. (and I hope it prints too)
 

 

 

 

"Trevor Westerdahl" wrote in message news:190184@community.devexpress.com...

>> Wow did that ever get mangled

This is a side note to DevExpress: is the formatting of posts ever going to be fixed? Ever since the forum upgrade, many, many posts get their text mangled. Clearly, each newsreader, web-browser, etc. is dependent on their respective encoding. It is driving me nuts that the encoding is getting mangled - often.

 

 

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