Hi Kashyap,
> I'll take a look at app/gui.l
Yes, I think it is a very typical example. In general, I would say that search
dialogs are *the* central issue.
Whenever I add a new entity class to an application, I first think about how
objects of that entity will be needed to be searched at runtime, and then do
three things:
1. Add the class definition with proper index and joint relations to the E/R
file.
2. Write a search dialog allowing
— the search for such objects with the right filter criteria
— srcolling through the list of results in a chart
— clicking on "@" in the result list to either
— jump to the edit form of that object, or
— take that object and insert into the context of another form
— pressing a "New" button to make a new object if nothing useful found
3. Write an edit form for such objects.
> Is there some documentation you could point me to for the format of the
> value in url> ?
Not that I'm aware of it. This method returns a a list to the path to the
standard edit form for that class, and further arguments, by convention passing
the object in the '*ID' global and the initial tab in the '*Tab' global if
desired:
(dm url> (Tab)
(and (may Customer) (list "app/cusu.l" '*Tab Tab '*ID This)) )
The (may ...) expression is for permission check. In general 'url>' returns NIL
if the object is not editable.
☺/ A!ex
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