Reading templates from file during plugin development

[aviv_el]

Hi guys,

I'm developing a rather large product for vbulletin, which has dozens of templates.
One of the major hassles I'm hitting is the requirement for the template to live inside the database, rather than in file - so whenever I change a template I have to do it using admincp->style->templates.

Is it possible that during development the templates will be run directly from a file? ie, have the rendering engine fetch templates direclty from the file? That would significantly ease on development of the new product.

It's fairly easy to do with plugins (all of my plugins are simple require_once codes), but I dont know how to do it with templates.

I've also posted this on vb4 programming help forum, but so far, no response, so reposting here

Thanks!