[Seaside] SU Lightbox and GLORP

[Chris Muller]

I would avoid "Are you sure" confirmations as much as possible and,
instead, provide undo capability.

Computers should follow user directives without question or intrusion,
and be ready to accomodate their frailty.

On 9/24/07, Richard K Eng <richard.eng at rogers.com> wrote:
> Yeah, it's a strange subject title and I have a long story to go with it...
>
> I'm using GLORP to implement a catalog of items. In the "admin" page of my
> app, I want to add, delete, or modify items in the catalog.
>
> So the Seaside webpage shows a table of catalog items. When I add an item to
> the catalog database, I want it reflected in the web table. When I delete an
> item from the catalog database, I also want it reflected in the web table.
> In other words, I want the web table to be always in sync with the catalog
> database.
>
> The tricky part comes in the delete operation because I want to throw up a
> SU Lightbox that asks "Are you SURE?" This lightbox has two buttons: Yes and
> No.
>
> It's tricky because the SU Lightbox is non-blocking, ie, it doesn't wait for
> the #answer. I've spent all day working around this issue and I think I've
> solved it. BUT IT IS NOT PRETTY.
>
> And Smalltalk solutions should usually be pretty.
>
> So I guess I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a more elegant way to make the webpage table always in sync with
> the GLORP database (esp. after add and delete operations)?
>
> 2) Is there a way to make the SU Lightbox *blocking*? If there were, I could
> do the delete and webpage table update the same clean way I've done it for
> the #add operation.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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