Forum OpenACS Q&A: rendering page in a frame

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1: rendering page in a frame
Posted by Nagita Karunaratne on 01/24/04 11:44 AM
Hi,

Has anyone able to render a page within a frame window.

I want to put the dotLRN index page into a frame but the frame HTML tag asks for a 'src' parameter and dotLRN generates pages as strings.

I have tried to:

1. define the frameset in dotlrn-master which creates the frames but then I have no way of loading the page

2. define the frameset in index page and have an empty dotlrn-master but this does not render at all.

What i want to do is assemble a page consisting of links to all the communities, classes, forms, faqs, calendars etc. Then place it in the left frame. Selecting a link places the corresponding item in the right frame.

Is this possible? Any hints?

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2: Re: rendering page in a frame (response to 1)
Posted by Nagita Karunaratne on 01/24/04 01:45 PM
Hello,

Think I've solved this problem by copying the way the CMS package implements the same thing.

The index page for the CMS does not seem to use a 'master' template. It just defined the frameset and loads the correct frame by calling a tcl script directly. I just put the tcl that gets the links into that script and added the script name to the src parameter of the appropriate frame tag.

I wouldn't have thought you could call a tcl script from a <frame> tag.