[ic] Foundation Enhancements..

[Brendan Crosser-McGay]

The version of the collapsible vertical category list Randy posted doesn't
necessarily work under all circumstances since the __DOC_ROOT__ var and the
__IMG_DIR__ directory have to exactly represent the place where your images
are or it will not replace the images with the ones you want.

I actually had a problem with it since a majority of my catalogs I'm looking
at don't have the __DOC_ROOT__ and __IMAGE_DIR__ variables being used for
the proper thing, and when I tried to format the term parameter with the
proper path, it still wasn't evalulating to true when the file existed, so I
think maybe that IF statement isn't the right way of doing it.

This doesn't evalulate to true no matter what---

[if type=file term="__DOCROOT__/__IMAGE_DIR__/[control toggleswitchon]"]

I think [control toggleswitchon] needs to be put into a [tmp] var first
before it can be looked at, atleast thats what I seem to find it true in
almost all components, I can't check it right now but thats an idea...

If you don't want it to check for the file, and just blindly display the
image, just change the code like so...
[tmp temporary][control togglswitchon][/tmp]
[if scratch toggleswitchon]
... display the toggleswitch image ...
[else]
display the - character
[/else]
[/if]

etc. etc. for the toggleswitchoff control as well.

I have had no luck with anything besides scratch variables, so I prefer use
them I know they work, and nothing breaks when I use them, if that fails
theres always CGI stuff.


-Brendan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Julia Jacobs
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:20 PM
> To: ramoore@axion-it.net
> Cc: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: [ic] Foundation Enhancements..
>
>
> Hi there Randy!
>
> I nabbed your collapsible vertical categories component that
> you posted
> which I must commend you on!  Its most AWESOME.
> However I'm having a bear of a time trying to get the
> [control toggleswitchoff] and [control toggleswitchon] images
> to work by
> trying to tweak your category_vert_toggle file.  The name of
> my images are:

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