Frontier Discussion Group Macros?

[Joshua Lipton/Slowtrain]

I beat you by 5 minutes :)

Found it in the exact place you described. Thanks for the quick reply.

Joshua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian V Hughes" <brianvh at Dartmouth.EDU>
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: Frontier Discussion Group Macros?


> I haven't looked through the code in a while... After a quick look, it 
> appears as though the script/macro you want too look at is: 
> manilaSuite.discuss.defaultPage
> 
> Find the code block that begins with if not 
> pta^.flPrintFriendlyTemplate, expand it all the way and you will see 
> the code for placing the "New Topic" link.
> 
> The best way, IMHO, to go about learning the flow of Manila sites/pages 
> is to start with a Manila site table open in Frontier and that same 
> Manila site open in the browser. Use the browser URL to point you at 
> the web site table object, open that object and start reading the code. 
> As you read you will find yourself cmd/cntrl 2-clicking to go deeper 
> into manilaSuite which is where all the code lives. Or, at least, all 
> the Manila specific code that sometimes needs to make direct calls into 
> mainResponder.discuss and mainResponder.calendar...
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 01:23  PM, Joshua Lipton/Slowtrain 
> wrote:
> > For instance: Under the recent topics view (the default view for this
> > discussion theme) you get a list of recent topics, and at the bottom 
> > you get
> > "Create a new topic to add to the discussion group". I'd like to 
> > double that
> > at the top of the message list, but I can't for the life of me figure 
> > out
> > where this text is being generated. In the actual template
> > (topicListTemplate) I'm assuming this is actually generated by the
> > {messageList} macro... but where do I find it?
> 
>