Re: [WebMacro-user] Re: init/cleanup/shared/

[dinesh t b <di...@se...>]

Keats,

This outputs:

#include as template myfile.wmt

rather than evaluate it.

I have included the original message at the bottom of this email, as it got
lost or eternally held by webmacro-user-admin. -d.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keats Kirsch" <ke...@xa...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WebMacro-user] Re: init/cleanup/shared/


> I'm not quite sure what you're getting at but if you want a deferred
> #include you can do this with #templet/#eval.  (#macro won't work since
> they are evaluated at build time.)
>
> For example:
>
> #templet $dynaIncl { \#include as template \$file }
> #eval $dynaIncl using { "file": "myfile.wmt" }
>
> With the newest version of #eval in CVS you can do this in one step:
>
> #eval "\#include as template \$file" using { "file": "myfile.wmt" }
>
> Note the need for backslashes to escape the # and $ chars.  Otherwise
> they will get evaluated prior to the #eval.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Keats
>
> dinesh t b wrote:
>
> >Trying to post it again, as it did not show up
> >
> >From: "Jason E. Stewart" <ja...@op...>
> >Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:15 PM
> >Subject: Re: init/cleanup/shared/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>"dinesh t b" <tbd...@se...> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>#macro pantotoparse($file){
> >>>
> >>>this is the stuff that goes before the real parse
> >>>
> >>>#include as template $file
> >>>
> >>>and the clean up stuff after the parse
> >>>
> >>>}
> >>>
> >>>So we can use #pantotoparse("myfoo.wm") instead and we get what we
want.
> >>>
> >>>However this does not compile as #include tries to expand immediately,
> >>>and we cannot get the necessary "delay" that we want for the include.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>We should add that we're using the 2.0b of WebMacro.
> >>
> >>We tried using #eval with a #templet - but this too did not work -
> >>the #include got executed at definition time, not at run time. Putting
> >>the #include inside a string, inside the #eval didn't work either -
> >>it never got executed - instead it just printed the string...
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>jas.
> >>
> >>


Trying to redesign pantoto screens, with a friend (Jason Stewart), we feel
that it would be nice to have init/cleanup capabilities of mason
(Jason has been using Mason for a while) working in a WM setting.

Anyway, here was the simple idea that we tried, to have the capability of
init and cleanup. The problem is that when ever we have an #include (as
template) we would like to include some "init" WM script and "cleanup" WM
Script.

And we assumed this could be done simply by using a directive or a macro
which would be our own parse, say #pantotoparse

#macro pantotoparse($file){

this is the stuff that goes before the real parse

#include as template $file

and the clean up stuff after the parse

}

So we can use #pantotoparse("myfoo.wm") instead and we get what we want.

However this does not compile as #include tries to expand immediately,
and we cannot get the necessary "delay" that we want for the include.

Any ideas on how this can be achieved.

-dinesh


The related email from over two years ago:

----- Original Message -----
From: <tbd...@se...>
To: <eb...@tc...>; <web...@li...>;
<di...@se...>
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [WebMacro-user] question: print wm file name/set path
dynamically



Eric thanks! Will try that.
Now i need to add this to the beginning of each file.

We do use 1.0+

>> 2. how to prepend or append to the parse-able text
>
>I'm not sure I understand this one.  :)

This is related to the above. If I do not want to modify
each file, but am able to conditionally trun on or off this
from the program, then I would want to add the line
automatically for the parse-able text (the file to be parsed)
-- say by extending the behaviour of #parse ?

thanks much,
dinesh

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Eric B. Ridge eb...@tc...
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 23:49:09 -0500
To: web...@li..., di...@se...
Subject: Re: [WebMacro-user] question: print wm file name/set path
dynamically


On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 11:17  PM, t b dinesh wrote:

>
> Hello hello,
>
> We seem to have gathered a large collection of .wm files that use each
> other!
> We have a need to print the file name on screen for testing/debugging
> purposes.
> Say we want the text <img src="name.gif" alt=[this file name]> or such
> to be prepended or appended to the file that is #include-d or #parse-d.
> 1. how to get the file name; and

If you put the context in the context:
    context.put ("Context", context);

from your templates, you can do this:
     This file is:  $Context.CurrentLocation

This will give you the filename (if there is one) of the current
template, plus the line.col in the template that is currently being
evaluated.  This assumes you're using a 1.0+ version of WM.  I don't
think context.getCurrentLocation() existed prior to 1.0.

> 2. how to prepend or append to the parse-able text

I'm not sure I understand this one.  :)

eric

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