Web controls for Seaside
Burella Juan M.
juan.burella at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 18:16:16 UTC 2007
Hi, Randy, Markus and list. Thanks for the feedback, we're working in order
to make a release as soon as possible.
Greetings
On 6/21/07, Randy Siler <siler at cidr.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm very very interested in seeing this happen. Do you have any idea how
> long before we might see it?
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Burella Juan M. wrote:
>
> In order to ease the work with our web application we have added
> component support for Seaside. It's what is called "AJAX Framework" out
> there, although we preferred not to call it "framework" nor toolkit by now.
> Much of the ideas of this package are based on WindowBuilder Pro, a
> commercial window builder that enables visual programming.
>
> Right now we have support for most common web controls (TextField, Panel,
> RadioButton, TextArea, Label, Button, Anchor, CheckBoxGroup,
> RadioButtonGroup, ListBox, FieldSet) and we are working on a builder tool
> for generate Seaside components (pages) dinamically. We call it
> SeasideBuilder.
>
> Using our package, for example, if you want to specify a ListBox of
> countries you have to (without the builder):
>
> >>countryControl
> "Private - Answer a ListBox with the countries. If panes not includes
> it then this is added"
>
> ^self
> paneNamed: #countryList
> ifNonePut: [ (SFListBox new)
> printSelector: #viewerString;
> styleClass: 'large';
> items: self countries;
> label: 'País';
> layout: self layout;
> addItem: nil labelFrom: 'Ninguno';
> when: #selectedChanged
> send: #selectedItem
> to: self;
> yourself]
>
> and it's rendered with:
>
> >>renderContentOn: html
> "Private - Render the receiver"
>
> html render: self countryControl
>
> With the builder you'll have to pick the control you want, configure
> properties, preview if you want it, and finally add to a page layout tree.
> When the tree is already configured properly, code for the rendering and
> controls is compiled into the class, along with tree support for future
> editing with the tool, although this is under heavy developement.
>
> Maybe this work could be interesting for someone out there. If so, we'd
> have to ask our institution for permission to release a public version under
> an appropiate licensing (GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc).
>
> Juan M. Burella, Hernán Morales and Norberto Manzanos, CAICYT
> http://www.caicyt.gov.ar
>
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