Thanks Mike! I'm still pretty confused about how this works, though. For example, does themeOverride need to be used in conjunction with these? It looks like they're generating innerContent that needs to get wrapped in a view.php somewhere, but I'm not sure...

Can you point me to any docs or posts that explain how to use this sort of page type? If not, can you think of any free add-ons that might use this technique?

i guess you can say, that its a generic singlepage, here is an example of a pagetype right from the calendar adoon,

http://pastie.org/1094668

Thanks again! I bought the calendar block so I can see how everything works now. I'm sure that license will come in handy some time.

I took the $55 out of the beer allowance my wife gives me. So let's see, 1 pint of Hamm's per day x $0.65 / pint... I should have it paid off in about 2.8 months, so around November 8th. I'll put that on my new calendar! ;)

In case anyone else is wondering about this at some point and is hungry for more details. Here's my opinion on how these things work in a nutshell:

They are exactly like a normal page type to a large extent. They're registered with the database in the PageTypes table, so they show up on the list of Page Types in the Pages and Themes area of the dashboard. You can use the Page Defaults, assign default attributes, etc... Any number of pages can be set to the page type -- all just like a regular page type.

The difference is in the file system -- whereas regular page types get rendered either by a template in the page's theme that has a file name matching the page type's handle OR by the default.php template in the theme if there's no match -- THIS KIND of page type gets rendered by having its content dumped to a variable called $innerContent which is then wrapped by the view.php template in the page's theme (this is the way things work for single pages). Any questions?