Re: [Openinteract-help] roadmap

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

Steve Sapovits wrote:
> Here's a simple one right from the tt2 examples directory:
> 
>   [% buttons = [
>       { link => 'buttons.html', text => 'Buttons' }
>       { link => 'menus.html',   text => 'Menus'   }
>       { link => 'tabs.html',    text => 'Tabs'    }
>      ]
>   %]
> 
>   [% PROCESS splash/menu %]
> 
> Basically they're (I think) a lot like OI widgets.  They package
> up a look/feel and wrapper around specific page elements.  I haven't
> done a lot with them.  I think OI may override the expected TT
> load paths, so I started by symlinking them to the OI doc root for
> starters.

There's a way to add TT configuration information programmatically 
-- you can define a custom initialization class to modify the 
configuration before it's passed to TT:

[template_info]
...
custom_init_class      = My::CustomTTClass
custom_init_method     = process_config

then you should be able to do something like this (untested):

package My::CustomTTClass;

sub process_config {
     my ( $class, $tt_config ) = @_;
     my $splash_dir = '/usr/local/tt/splash';
     my $existing_path = $tt_config->{INCLUDE_PATH};
     if ( ref $existing_path eq 'ARRAY' ) {
         push @{ $existing_path }, $splash_dir;
     }
     elsif ( $existing_path ) {
         $existing_path .= ":$splash_dir";
     }
     else {
         $existing_path = $splash_dir;
     }
     $tt_config->{INCLUDE_PATH} = $existing_path;
}

 > I got partial results -- missing images.  Maybe the
> INCLUDE/PROCESS overrides OI has are getting in the way?

Are the URLs generated by splash looking for images under a 
particular path? Maybe you need to copy the splash images under your 
site's 'images/' directory, or add an Apache alias:

  Alias /images/splash /usr/local/tt/splash/images

Good luck!

Chris

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