Have you considered an event/template driven approach. (This would work mostly for Changes the look and actions of a button) Then each 'module' could register a handler for certain events, and template could call certain events.

Like the header module might have DoEvent("DrawTitleBar") Then the engine could call all handlers associated with that event. Each 'module' could then add its own buttons and/or formating to the title bar by adding a handler to that event.

The template would then obviously need to handle these event calls, and transform button clicks into Event calls etc, and you would need some standard data format that each module would have access too.

I hope this helps or at least provides some spark of thought. Anyone have ideas/comments about my idea?

In reply to Re: Best way to 'add modules' to web app? by eric256
in thread Best way to 'add modules' to web app? by BUU

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