Re: [web2py] Re: new in trunk: clone.py

2010-07-25 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:16 PM, mdipierro wrote: > BTW I am working on it... I had not realized how much new stuff > was still undocumented. Sorry. It's been a year, after all. That's the problem with relatively static docs, though.

[web2py] Re: plugin_wiki / roles

2010-07-25 Thread aure
Chris, thanks for your answer. I will play around a bit more and see if I get everything I want working... Aurelien On 22 juil, 07:08, Chris S wrote: > I've been really exploringplugin_Wikisince it's launch and I can at > least answer what the Role: box does. > > If a group is listed in this bo

Re: [web2py] Re: Recent change to string escaping breaks dynamic javascript

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
The new template system supports custom lexers, if web2py would expose the correct interface, it would allow you to define something like {{:PT}} Which would translate to response.write(XML(simplejson.dumps(PT), escape=False) We can add as many of these custom named commands as we would like...

Re: [web2py] advice on ListProperty

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
Yes. Just go the extra half a mile and add it for every database that will use a table behind the scenes. -- Thadeus On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 6:17 PM, mdipierro wrote: > GAE has a ListPropery and IS_IN_DB(...,multiple=True) does not use it > but uses '|2|34|45|' instead for portability over

Re: [web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
Update the deployment section. I never got the instructions in the book to work without tweaking, so I think it needs some fine tuning and references to web2pyslices slice 14, 29, 33, 36, 57, 64 -- Thadeus On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, howesc wrote: > I use google app engine a lot, and w

[web2py] plugin sortable, connect lists

2010-07-25 Thread Giuseppe Luca Scrofani
I've used the sortable plugin  ( http://www.web2py.com/plugins/default/sortable ) in some projects and I think it is very useful to arrange list of items in database. What I miss is the "connect list" functionality ( http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#connect-lists ) of jQuery UI. What I think can

[web2py] Advice needed on twitter clone project

2010-07-25 Thread Pystar
I am thinking of implementing a twitter clone as a proof of concept of the capabilities of web2py to be demoed in a tech meetup here in Lagos, and I have some questions to ask. 1. I know that twitter uses a message queue system in delivery of tweets, can web2py does this natively? or do I have to u

[web2py] Re: auth.navbar modifications

2010-07-25 Thread Vidul Petrov
Thank you for the quick answer Massimo! I'll change the links explicitely, it is much more easy than API changes. On Jul 26, 2:05 am, mdipierro wrote: > At this time navbar is not customizable. the reason is that it is much > easier to just built the link explicitly than create an API for this.

[web2py] advice on ListProperty

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
GAE has a ListPropery and IS_IN_DB(...,multiple=True) does not use it but uses '|2|34|45|' instead for portability over relational databases and GAE. Should there be a web2py type 'list' that hides all of this and uses ListProperty on GAE and provides simpler query syntax in this case? Massimo

[web2py] Re: auth.navbar modifications

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
At this time navbar is not customizable. the reason is that it is much easier to just built the link explicitly than create an API for this. On Jul 25, 5:43 pm, Vidul Petrov wrote: > Is there a best practice for auth.navbar changes? > > For example I'd like to remove "password" link and add "ret

[web2py] Re: chat appliance (newbie)

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
please try again. I uploaded it again. I did not try but there should not any invitation in the code any more. On Jul 25, 5:43 pm, Stef Mientki wrote: >  sorry Massimo, > > but it still gives exactly the same error (a quick file comparison, didn't > show any differences, did > you upload a new v

[web2py] auth.navbar modifications

2010-07-25 Thread Vidul Petrov
Is there a best practice for auth.navbar changes? For example I'd like to remove "password" link and add "retrieve username" link. Probably an oversight from my side but "gluon.tools.Auth.navbar" method does not say a lot about such changes.

Re: [web2py] Re: chat appliance (newbie)

2010-07-25 Thread Stef Mientki
sorry Massimo, but it still gives exactly the same error (a quick file comparison, didn't show any differences, did you upload a new version ?) ( the invitation is received by the second person, but if the second person clicks on the invitation, the error pops up) thanks for your quick efforts

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread howesc
I use google app engine a lot, and would love to have mention in the main content of the book when features won't work on GAE. some are now, and others are only in the GAE section at the end. also not everything in http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cd89f11de4d23b53/f67faa

[web2py] Re: Don't really know how to ask but here goes

2010-07-25 Thread howesc
Chris, sounds like a fun...and possibly complex problem. some thoughts: - web2py could be made to work well for you - because web2py is easy to install and run on a laptop (i do all my development work on local web2py installs on a laptop), you could write everything as a set of web2py apps and

[web2py] Re: New layout.html makes unable to use appadmin without auth

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
ouch! fixed in trunk. On Jul 25, 2:52 pm, ciastek wrote: > Disabling auth in application breaks appadmin. > layout.html assumes, that auth is defined: > --- layout.html { --- >   >     {{=response.flash or ''}} >     >       {{#-- Layout 3 fromhttp://www.ez-css.org/layouts--}} >      

[web2py] Re: epub version of official book?

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
Sure. I am making many revisions to the book. I hope to have the third edition out by the end of August. I will need help from some of you to spot typos. On Jul 25, 4:43 pm, Donald Hughes wrote: > Any chance of getting an epub version of the official book in addition > to the pdf?  I would gladl

[web2py] epub version of official book?

2010-07-25 Thread Donald Hughes
Any chance of getting an epub version of the official book in addition to the pdf? I would gladly pay $12.50 for that.

[web2py] Re: dynamic urls or catch-all controllers

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
Or you can have explicit routes for the actions you have and, at the end, the catch all route as Thadeus suggests. On Jul 25, 4:52 pm, Thadeus Burgess wrote: > I would use a routes_in that would redirect to a single function which > would then look at the arguments of the path to determine what t

Re: [web2py] dynamic urls or catch-all controllers

2010-07-25 Thread Thadeus Burgess
I would use a routes_in that would redirect to a single function which would then look at the arguments of the path to determine what to do =/ -- Thadeus On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: >  If I wanted to create pages like /about /contact /asdf1 /asdf2 /asdf3, > how's

[web2py] Ordering page

2010-07-25 Thread Kenneth
Hello, I´m trying to decided what kind of a ordering page I should make. What I´m trying to do is a page where customer orders product. There can be maybe 25 products. Every product has it´s own price. The customer has a sum of money he can order with. He can´t order more than hes sum of money.

[web2py] New layout.html makes unable to use appadmin without auth

2010-07-25 Thread ciastek
Disabling auth in application breaks appadmin. layout.html assumes, that auth is defined: --- layout.html { --- {{=response.flash or ''}} {{#-- Layout 3 from http://www.ez-css.org/layouts --}} {{=auth.navbar(action=URL(request.application,'default','user'))}}

[web2py] dynamic urls or catch-all controllers

2010-07-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
If I wanted to create pages like /about /contact /asdf1 /asdf2 /asdf3, how's the best way to have web2py capture and process them without building controllers for each page? I'd prefer to capture the urls early and internally redirect them to /content/about or wherever my database tells me th

Re: [web2py] Re: ajax widget - asynchronously updated

2010-07-25 Thread Tomas Pelka
Nobody knows? Harvesting web almost week, with no results. Have no idea how to solve this feature. Thanks for advices. On 07/19/2010 09:59 PM, Tomas Pelka wrote: Yes this is nice, but I thing this is better approach: in controler: def getResults(): . . return something in view: {{=LOA

[web2py] Re: new in trunk: clone.py

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
I will use it as an example in the new edition book. BTW I am working on it... I had not realized how much new stuff was still undocumented. Sorry. On Jul 25, 12:27 pm, Kuba Kucharski wrote: > huge part creation is about modifying smth that was previously there. > there are a lot of things

[web2py] Re: Translate labels into my application

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
You need to define a custom table (as explained in the book) and give explicit error messages to validators ...requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY(,error_message=T('cannot be empty'))... On Jul 25, 10:45 am, Neveen Adel wrote: > Dear all, > >  How can i translate the login page " .../default/user/logi

[web2py] Re: chat appliance (newbie)

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
I reposted it. Please try again On Jul 25, 6:15 am, Stef Mientki wrote: >  thanks Massimo, > > loging in /out now works, > but inviting other people to a chatroom doesn't work. > I get an error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in restricted >   Fil

Re: [web2py] Re: new in trunk: clone.py

2010-07-25 Thread Kuba Kucharski
huge part creation is about modifying smth that was previously there. there are a lot of things that can be used in a bad or good way(photoshop?). and yes, they are still on the market. let's leave the choice between good and evil to the people. I don't really care SO MUCH about "clone" feature(alt

[web2py] Re: book revision

2010-07-25 Thread weheh
There are also comments embedded directly into the online book. These should be reviewed and incorporated into the new doc as deemed fit.

[web2py] Re: ajax for checkboxes (web2py 1.81.5) -- bug?

2010-07-25 Thread weheh
I did what you asked, but removing _value=False seems to have no impact on the request.vars result. The return value is always "on" whether or not the checkbox is clicked.

[web2py] Translate labels into my application

2010-07-25 Thread Neveen Adel
Dear all, How can i translate the login page " .../default/user/login" , how can i translate the username and the password fields and also how can i translate the error messages the are displayed. Thanks in Advance Neveen

[web2py] Re: Wing IDE / GAE / breakpoints not getting hit for "exec" code

2010-07-25 Thread NickFranceschina
bump On Jul 13, 11:20 am, NickFranceschina wrote: > thanks but this doesn't help me... >   1) I'm using Wing >   2) I'm trying to debug using GAE's dev_appserver.py > > Wing debugs fine if I use web2py's web server... but when run on GAE, > Web2py has that extra code to cache files by key... and

[web2py] Re: Recent change to string escaping breaks dynamic javascript

2010-07-25 Thread Scott
I agree that it should be available in either context, which means including the helper. If folks wish to implement it in the view, they could continue to do so... On Jul 24, 10:40 pm, Michael Ellis wrote: > I'm of two minds on this.  It's a one-liner to implement as I've done it, > but my imple

Re: [web2py] Re: chat appliance (newbie)

2010-07-25 Thread Stef Mientki
On 25-07-2010 02:06, mdipierro wrote: > Taking a second look. This is really cool and I see there is more than > the interface. thanks, and the answer to your previous mail, it;s based on wxPython > How difficult would it be to implement this with a web > front-end using elFinder? > I've no idea.

[web2py] Re: How to submit a custom form

2010-07-25 Thread elfuego1
When I send my registration form I get the error below from the controller: controllers/default.py What should I do to be able to send the form and save form data into database? Line 17 in default.py refers to: form=auth() Do I have to add some code yet to user function to be able to send my

[web2py] Re: How to submit a custom form

2010-07-25 Thread elfuego1
When I try to submit my registration form I get this error from controller: controllers/default.py Where line 16 is: form=auth() So, what should I do to be able to send and save data from my registration form into database? ---

Re: [web2py] Re: chat appliance (newbie)

2010-07-25 Thread Stef Mientki
thanks Massimo, loging in /out now works, but inviting other people to a chatroom doesn't work. I get an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "gluon/restricted.py", line 178, in restricted File "S:/Python_26/web2py_win/web2py/applications/kat/controllers/default.py" , line 72, in

Re: [web2py] Don't really know how to ask but here goes

2010-07-25 Thread Jason Brower
This seems like a great idea and the possibility to a great site and application. But there is a lot of work to do in this project. You could make a small business out of this idea. I highly recommend looking for a bit of funding and then you can create the app with some financial motivation. W

[web2py] plugin sortable, connect lists

2010-07-25 Thread Giuseppe Luca Scrofani
I've used the sortable plugin ( http://www.web2py.com/plugins/default/sortable ) in some projects and I think it is very useful to arrange list of items in database. What I miss is the "connect list" functionality ( http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#connect-lists ) of jQuery UI. What I think can

[web2py] Re: global name 'MySQLdb' is not define d

2010-07-25 Thread oktay
I solved the problem. It is strange but in sql.py before "self._pool_connection(lambda :MySQLdb.Connection" I add import MySQLdb. I print some logs from sql.py and the first import in sql.py is not processed when running with apache. I am not sure why first import is not processed but I solved my p

[web2py] Re: OpenID supported with login method

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
Thank you! On Jul 25, 12:52 am, keitheis wrote: > Hi, > > I made the OpenID support for sahana eden. And thanks to Fran Boon, I > did it most on web2py/gluon/contrib/login_methods . Here is the code: > > https://code.launchpad.net/~keitheis/web2py/openid > > Fran said that in the long run it's be

[web2py] Re: Recent change to string escaping breaks dynamic javascript

2010-07-25 Thread mdipierro
This is a good argument to not include it. On Jul 24, 9:40 pm, Michael Ellis wrote: > I'm of two minds on this.  It's a one-liner to implement as I've done it, > but my implementation hides the rich argument set available in > simplejson.dumps(): > > dumps(obj, skipkeys=False, ensure_ascii=True,

[web2py] Don't really know how to ask but here goes

2010-07-25 Thread DiscDogNation
I have a bonafide project that I know ( at least I think I know) that Web2py will be perfect for. I AM NOT A PROGRAMMER but I want to learn how to program and I think this is the perfect platform for me to get my feet wet. PLEASE either point me in the direction of someone who wants to teach an idi

[web2py] OpenID supported with login method

2010-07-25 Thread keitheis
Hi, I made the OpenID support for sahana eden. And thanks to Fran Boon, I did it most on web2py/gluon/contrib/login_methods . Here is the code: https://code.launchpad.net/~keitheis/web2py/openid Fran said that in the long run it's better to have it maintained up here. So I send it here for the f