[Seaside] [Seaside-dev] Seaside components

[Maximiliano Taborda]

2010/1/27 Sean Allen <sean at monkeysnatchbanana.com>

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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Maximiliano Taborda <mtaborda at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello.
>>
>> I am thinking of using seaside to develop a web based application, but I
>> really do not know how seaside can satisfy my needs.
>> I read the book at the seaside site and all is well with the development
>> in the seaside-way.
>>
>> Although, I have the following questions:
>> I would have components like a grid and graphs in my application. Is this
>> possible?
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> You could write components that create grids and graphs.
> If you can do it in html/javascript, you can write a component in seaside
> to create a
> reusable component to do the same.
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>> I see that seaside includes Scriptaculous and jQuery, so could I
>> use something like this: http://trirand.com/blog/jqgrid/jqgrid.html? This component
>> (or any other like this) exists or, if not, how difficult is to build it?
>>
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> There are none included w/ Seaside itself although someone might have
> written something like that. I'm not aware of it though.
> The difficulty isnt that great, you are taking the html and javascript that
> would be used and write code that given a certain set
> of inputs would create the appropriate output. Its basically the same as
> how it would be in any other language/framework except that seaside
> components are
> stateful so in some ways, once you know what you are doing, its easier.
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>> Another example. Searching the web I found this thing called ZK:
>> http://www.zkoss.org/zkdemo/userguide/. There are at seaside grids,
>> graphics and windows as shown in this demo?
>>
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> I don't understand this last question. If you are asking if seaside has
> built in componenets similiar to that then the answer is no.
>

Yes, that was my question.

Thanks.
Maxi

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> My general statement would be, yes all of this is possible, the learning
> curve might be a little high for someone starting out with Seaside.
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