Re: Semantics of ^ in value bindings in .wod file.
Re: Semantics of ^ in value bindings in .wod file.
- Subject: Re: Semantics of ^ in value bindings in .wod file.
- From: "Christopher Roach" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:20:59 -0500
Hi Archibal,
The carat syntax you're seeing is just a shorthand for saying take the
value from the parent component.
As for the documentation, I agree with you that it is very hard for a
WO newbie to get up and running. I too just recently got started
working with WO (as my new job uses WebObjects for all of its
development) and I ran into lots of trouble trying to find some
introductory material that doesn't use the deprecated tools and that
also tries to use some of the new tech found in 5.4. To remedy this
I'm working on some introductory material myself, which I will be
posting to this mailing list as soon as I've finished. So, keep an
eye out and hopefully my tutorials will help you out a bit.
Christopher
On Dec 26, 2007 3:01 PM, Archibal Singleton <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've searched through all the WO Apple docs (spotlight on Leopard
> truly rocks!) to find a good explanation of the use of the caret "^"
> character in bindings in custom WOComponent .wod files and couldn't
> find any (except in a a couple of EO docs). It's mentioned in passing
> in the "WOComponent HTML File Format" reference but not in the
> "WOComponent Bundle Format" reference. In the HTML file format file
> they also mention prefixing key binding with a ? in the .wod file but
> I could not find a detailed explanation for this either.
>
> The only place I could find documentation about the use of the "^" was
> in some of the WO books.
>
> Did I really missed it or such a basic piece of information is
> actually missing from the docs?
>
> Anyway the docs are so incredibly lacking and misleading (they even no
> longer seem to include the simplest Hello World tutorial...) that if
> it was not for the WO community, I really don't see how a new comer
> could even start to grasp and further more embrace WO.
>
> Such a shame :-(
>
> So I thought I mention how grateful and thankful I'm to this great WO
> community for all the work they putting in making WO useable.
>
> Thank you guys.
>
> = tmk =
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