patTemplate Call in Joomla! 1.5

[musicones]

Hi,

could someone please tell me how to call patTemplate in Joomla! 1.5?

Before I did it like this:

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function &createTemplate() {
		global $option, $mosConfig_absolute_path;
		require_once( $mosConfig_absolute_path . '/includes/patTemplate/patTemplate.php' );

        }
		$tmpl =& patFactory::createTemplate( $option, true, false );
		$tmpl->setRoot( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/tmpl' );

		return $tmpl;
	} 

	function showAbout() {
       // import the body of the page
        $tmpl =& showAbout::createTemplate();
        $tmpl->setAttribute( 'body', 'src', 'about.html' );

        $tmpl->displayParsedTemplate( 'form' );
	}

Where is it now and how do I call it?
A small code snip would help, thanks.

regards
Antonio Cambule

[friesengeist]

Here are two files to look at:
/components/com_mailto/view.php
/components/com_mailto/views/default/default.php

This could change back to the usual contact.php and contact.html.php before Joomla! 1.5 goes beta though, that's why I included the exact revision number in the links. It should give you an idea how to use patTemplate.

[musicones]

Hi,

that's a good example, thanks a lot.

Do you have one for admin/backend?


EDIT:

I've read various core codes under administrator/components now. Some of the core components are made with controllers and views.
I tried to recreate it for my component. It works well in a manner, that I can see my backend menu of the component, but thats depends on the .xml file.
When I click on a menu item I get a menubar with a close button, perfect.
And I can see my menuitems of the component under the title.

I've got an Item called "About", the task is "about" and the browser path is fine.

I've got

mycomponent
mycomponent/controllers/about.php
mycomponent/views/about.php


I suppose that in views/about.php should be the output for the component.
Now I can put what I want into showAbout function of the viewClass but nothing happens
nothing is shown.

what can it depend on?

regards
musicones