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  Posted: Jun 05, 2005 - 09:06 AM

  Hi,
  
  When creating new blocks, should they be templated with pnRender? I scanned through some of the modules/blocks in Postnuke 0.76 and they all look like they are using pnHTML.
  
  If anyone has a block done via pnRender, I'd like to take a look at it and see how it's done.
  
  Thanks,
  Grant

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 05, 2005 - 10:21 AM

  An pnrender example block is supplied with the Example module, included in 0.760 .
  The best, and easiest way to do it is to use pnRender.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 05, 2005 - 10:25 AM

  Sweet, I just checked it out and will start working with it soon.
  
  I am writing a module and will have a block associated with the module to be included on the front page. For my module, I'm using a custom pnstyle/style.css sheet. If I write my block with the custom CSS tags, will they be pulled in for the block when viewed on the front page?
  
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  Grant

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 05, 2005 - 08:21 PM

  No - loading a block will not (currently) trigger the linking of the module stylesheet. This is only available for the full module. However you can force a module stylesheet to be linked explicitly via a template tag. The following tag will link style.css from the module 'mymod'. Add this to the page templates of the theme (or the header_footer module page template for non Xanthia themes).
  
  

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  <!--[modulestylesheet modname=<mymod>]-->

  
  
  You can also define the filename of the stylesheet to use a different stylesheet.
  
  

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  <!--[modulestylesheet modname=<mymod> stylesheet=aardvark.css]-->

  
  
  Lastly the module can define the default stylesheet to be loaded (instead of style.css) by defining the 'modulestylesheet' module var (i.e. pnModSetVar('mymod', 'modulestylesheet', 'wibble.css'); )
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 05, 2005 - 08:27 PM

  Just to add a little note about styles for blocks. The problem with imlementing a similar setup to the module stylesheets is one of performance. If we take a site with 10 blocks from 5 different modules then we have to check a fair number of paths to find if a stylesheet exists for each block. Additionally we'd probably have to query the database to find what blocks (and thier associated module) are active.
  
  I'm not ruling this out but there a number of issues that would need to be looked at carefully prior to any implementation. Could you log this as a feature request at noc.postnuke.com.
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 06, 2005 - 04:39 AM

  Mark,
  
  I guess I'm a noob. I have an account at noc.postnuke.com, but where do I log a feature request?
  
  Thanks,
  Grant

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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Jun 06, 2005 - 06:24 AM

  Look at the development resources block on each page here at postnuke.com.
  
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