[Seaside] Re: [ANN] Seaside Tutorial

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Fri Mar 10 07:55:57 UTC 2006


Indeed I was pushing lukas since weeks to make a cool video.
So feel free to do some of them :)


On 9 mars 06, at 18:09, Wilkes Joiner wrote:

> I need to spend some time with Magritte.  I'll go through your
> tutorial and get back to you about this.  Initial impression is that
> it looks fantastic and would make an impressive demo.
>
> - Wilkes
>
> On 3/9/06, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rogers,
>>
>>> You also might consider plugging Magritte into the framework.
>>
>> yes, that would be very cool, indeed. Especially much more powerful
>> and still very easy for beginners.
>>
>> Instead of adding your own instance-variables you simply press a menu
>> "Add Descriptions" showing a list of possible descriptions, such as
>> "String Description" and "Meno Description", "Date Description", etc.
>> Then a morphic dialog on this description is opened to specify its
>> properties, such as the label, default value, view-component,
>> validation rules, etc.
>>
>> Note that this configuration dialog can be built automatically, since
>> descriptions are described using themselves. The description
>> serializes itself to a description-method on the class side (that is
>> not yet done, but I could add that) and you have a great interface
>> that is easily extensible.
>>
>> For your example this would just add two methods:
>>
>> SOSPost class>>descriptionTitle
>>   ^ MAStringDescription auto: #title label: 'Title'
>>
>> SOSPost class>>description
>>   ^ MAMemoDescription auto: #body label: 'Body'
>>
>> Now as a user you are probably not happy with simply that, you  
>> want to
>> add some validation: the fields should be required (send the message
>> #beRequired to the description), maybe you want a default value (send
>> the message #default: anObject), you want some custom condtion (send
>> the message #addCondition: aBlock), and so on ...
>>
>> I really think Magritte could turn your baby into something much more
>> powerful than they have in Ruby!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Lukas
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lukas Renggli
>> http://www.lukas-renggli.ch
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