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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:41:57 -0700
From: Sam Neth <sam@onthefly.com>
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Subject: Re: Velocity To Stop Caching Themes
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I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind the default templates 
embedding styles in the pages, but it greatly increases the page weight, 
and makes it more difficult to reuse styles from non-Roller pages, so I 
link to an external style sheet (I think you could also link to a style 
sheet uploaded to Roller).  One benefit of this approach is that CSS 
iteration is very fast.

As for template reloading, I ran into the same problem, which I think 
has to do not with velocity failing to reload templates but with Roller 
failing to rebuild pages.  I ended up using an external editor and 
copy/pasting into the Roller template maintenance pages to apply 
changes.  Only when things were stable did I save the templates off as a 
real theme.  It's not ideal, but it's better than restarting the 
application.

Dehru Cromer wrote:
> Boy, I was hoping for a more iterative solution for all the UI (HTML/CSS) tweaks I need to make...to actually get velocity to read the changes.  The default settings in velocity.properties is to check every 2 seconds for template changes, but that doesn't seem to be happening...it caches it at startup and never checks again.  I'm wondering if anyone else has ran into this issue and solved it.
>
> Dehru
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raúl Fuenzalida" <aeon.lancer@gmail.com>
> To: user@roller.apache.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 3:18:26 PM (GMT-0700) America/Denver
> Subject: Re: Velocity To Stop Caching Themes
>
> restart Roller?
>
> On 10/16/07, Dehru Cromer <dehru@iggli.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working with Roller 4.0 RC8 and creating a new theme. However, I have to start and stop Tomcat ( 6.0.14 ) in order to see theme changes in the templates. I've tried tweaking the velocity.properties to turn caching off in the various loaders and even tried to introduce the default FileResourceLoader, but no luck. It seems to be ignoring any changes I make.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to resolve this would speed my theme development.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dehru Cromer
>>
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