root component list - how to control?

Hi all, this is kind of a noob question, sorry. I'm using Damian
Cassou's Web dev image and for some reason creating a new WAComponent
subclass doesn't seem to result in that subclass becoming available in
the new app config's "Root Component" dropdown in Seaside. In the
images I was using earlier, just creating a subclass (in its own
top-level category) would result in the subclass becoming available as
a root component, and yet I didn't end up with an overwhelming number
of root components in the dropdown. What am I missing? Sorry for the
basic-ness of the question.

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On the class side of your component, add

canBeRoot
  ^true

Ramon Leon
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> On the class side of your component, add
>
> canBeRoot
>   ^true

Thanks Ramon. Managed to track that down, but first I kind of chased a
red herring, registerAsApplication.

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On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:28:59 -0700, Giles Bowkett <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> On the class side of your component, add
>>
>> canBeRoot
>>   ^true
>
> Thanks Ramon. Managed to track that down, but first I kind of chased a
> red herring, registerAsApplication.
>

Hey, I did that, too. I still haven't figured out what the deal is with  
that.
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2007/5/24, Giles Bowkett <[hidden email]>:
> > On the class side of your component, add
> >
> > canBeRoot
> >   ^true
>
> Thanks Ramon. Managed to track that down, but first I kind of chased a
> red herring, registerAsApplication.

#registerAsApplication: can be used to manually register a component
(or task) as an application. In this case it doesn't matter what
#canBeRoot returns, that's just for the UI.

#registerAsApplication: is very convenient if you have just created a
new component and want to register is as an application and don't want
to go through the whole /config application.
You can just type

self registerAsApplication: 'foobar'

somewhere in the class (self is bound to the class in the code
browser) and you're done.

Cheers
Philippe
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