Re: [Openinteract-dev] odd values in new template field

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Andrew Hurst wrote:
> TT version 2.10.

Ok, I'll check it out.

> In other news, how could I go about changing the theme from within a 
> template?  I want to have most of the pages generated by /Document and 
> /DocumentPages to use a different main template...

Ahh.. interesting. This isn't hard to do, but I don't think there's 
a way to do it right now. The only tricky part is this:
 >...
> ## in the document::document_detail template, this should show with the 
> new theme
> [%  OI.box_add( 'document_tools_box', document = document );
>     OI.box_add( 'object_modify_box', object = document );
>     DEFAULT theme = OI.theme( mysite_theme );   # <-- specify the theme 
> for the returned page here,
>                                                 # hopefully making it 
> use a different main template as well

The 'making it use a different main template' is the slippery part 
because non-main pages may want to use a different theme and leave 
the main template the way it is. How about a syntax like:

  [% DEFAULT theme = OI.theme_fetch( mysite_theme_id,
                                     use_main => 'yes' ) %]

which would do the main template switcheroo behind the scenes but do 
what it says for everyone else?

(Even more sugar: instead of needing to remember an ID for 
'mysite_theme_id' you can specify a name which is then looked up in 
the 'default_objects' server configuration section...)

Chris

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