[Seaside] [ANN] Dojo Toolkit

[Holger Kleinsorgen]

Hello,

I've published some packages that help developing applications that use 
the Dojo Toolkit (http://www.dojotoolkit.org).
Dojo is a Javascript library that provides DOM queries and manipulation 
functions, event handling, Ajax requests, widgets and more.

To get the code:

Squeak:
- Repository: http://www.squeaksource.com/DojoToolkit
- Project page: http://www.squeaksource.com/DojoToolkit.html
- Configuration

   Gofer new
     squeaksource: 'DojoToolkit';
     package: 'ConfigurationOfDojoToolkit';
     load.
   (Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfDojoToolkit) perform: #load.

This is the first configuration one I ever wrote, so it's certainly 
buggy ;) I only tested it with Pharo-1.1 Oneclick.

VisualWorks:
- load it from Cincom's public repository, bundle is called 
"DojoToolkitBundle"

The examples are registered at /examples/Dojo

I would like to thank the authors of the jQuery package for Seaside. 
Although the Dojo library differs in many aspects, the framework of the 
jQuery package was very helpful. I actually copied some Ajax-related 
code. The Dojo packages are published under the MIT license, so I hope 
this is ok.

Three usage examples:

- Button that triggers an Ajax request:

   html submitButton
     onClick: ( html dojo ajax script:
        [: s | s << (( s dojo query: #status)
          innerHTML: 'OK' ]);
     text: 'Callback'

- A textarea that dynamically expands/contracts its size:

Programmatically:

   html div
      style: 'width: 400px';
      script: html dojoUI new textarea;
   with: 'Enter more text.'.

With markup (see http://docs.dojocampus.org/dojo/parser):

   html dojoTextarea
     style: 'width: 400px';
     with: 'Enter more text.'

The packages are not complete yet. Things that is missing:
- dojo.fx
- DojoX (extensions)
and probably a lot more. Dojo is quite extensive.

Cheers, Holger