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Templates: Using child template with application templates
1998-10-24 -- Phillip Carroll
 
Newsgroups: TopSpeed.Topic.Templates

Editors note:  Please note that some lines may wrap in the template code.

In article <3630e749.10670386@TSNews.Clarion.Com>, Arnor Baldvinsson
wrote:
> I have a very small template that works fine as a procedure extension
> template.  It stuffs one variable into the #LOCALDATA and then one or
> two lines of code to put data into this variable.  If I change this to
> global extension template, the #LOCALDATA is not generated.  If I
> change it to put the variable into a local declaration embed it works
> fine, but then this variable doesn't show up on the field list.  This
> variable can't be global as it must be procedure based, not thread
> based and it must be available in the local data field list.  Any
> ideas?
>

Arnor, why not use:

#EXTENSION(),APPLICATION(child(chain))

In the child procedure extension template, you can use #LOCALDATA.

Phil Carroll
Paragon Design & Development
http://www.paragondandd.com



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