Good point... Dave
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Slay Sent: 05 September 2012 14:32 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Dynamic Forms for FoxPro The reason I do not like pure HTML or XAML markup syntax is because of all the </closing-tags> that have to be used at the end of each element. I find that this adds a ton of noise to the markup. So, I prefer something lighter... My chosen format here is more closely patterned after JSON and a some parts of Ruby known as "hashes". -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 5:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Dynamic Forms for FoxPro Matt, I've joined your group and may well be able to help out as I have developed quite a few form generators in VFP. My only comment is why re-invent the wheel? It seems that you are creating a markup language from scratch when there is an XML/XAML base that you can build on with all the advantages that VFP can use and interpret these standard formats. My aprevious attempts at Dynamic forms simply generated .scx tables (they were developed way before XML was even thought of and if I were to do the same thing again I would certainly use XML/XAML as a foundation. Maybe a clearer insight into your thinking here. Dave -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt Slay Sent: 04 September 2012 19:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Dynamic Forms for FoxPro I have released a new project on VFPx today. Please check it out and give me your feedback... Dynamic Forms Dynamic Forms is a new way to create forms based on a "markup syntax" similar to HTML and XAML, in which you specify both the layout and ControlSources for the various controls to be displayed on the form. The result will be a dynamically constructed form, specified in markup code, rather than manually creating it in the Form Designer. http://bit.ly/DynamicForms [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
