I there Julian, I'm also about to begin coding a table component of my own. Tell me, have you compared the table from dhtmlgoodies with the SortableTable included in the Tapestry 4.1 provided Dojo? Is there a good reason to this preference? Are there more features in the dhtmlgoodies table?
I was very inclined to the dojo table but would like your views on this. What I really would like to have is this... http://www.turboajax.com/turbowidgets/ Isn't that grid something? Beatifull... and it's dojo based! Regards, On 2/11/07, Julian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok thanks Jesse. Even hearing that it _is_ a large undertaking gives me some direction. I think I will explore the EventListener annotation a little more to see if I can see a way to hook it up to the events created by this planner, and if that looks promising I will go down that road. I also hadn't realized you could listen for invocations of javascript functions, which should give me another route. Thanks, J On 11-Feb-07, at 2:09 PM, Jesse Kuhnert wrote: > I can't make any suggestions for such a large undertaking, but the > @EventListener annotation can listen to any native (browser generated) > javascript event or object function. > > On 2/9/07, Julian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm working on taking this dhtml component here: >> >> http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/dhtmlgoodies-week-planner/ >> dhtmlgoodies-week-planner.html >> >> and moving it into tapestry. It is heavy on javascript, AJAX and >> somewhat less so on PHP. The javascript has many event hooks which >> fire off AJAX requests to it's PHP backend. >> >> My question is, what is the best strategy for moving to Tapestry? >> >> I think the quickest and dirtiest solution is to create an engine >> service for each of the AJAX calls, which replicate what the PHP does >> in it's current incarnation. This does feel like the wrong way to do >> it though, especially since in each service, I will need to add >> state, while leaving the page's .java virtually empty. I'll also need >> to put in raw URL's to the AJAX services, directly inside the >> javascript. >> >> So, knowing there must be a better way, I've been trying to figure >> out how I can leverage the new stuff in 4.1 to do the job. The >> javascript events in the planner are not straightforward - they are >> calculated, and if necessary, an AJAX call is made. I'm not sure if >> an EventListener can be made to monitor a complex event like that, or >> if you can make a custom event to which an EventListener can listen. >> >> So if I can dip into specifics, I know I can get the planner to load >> all the "appointments" for a week pretty easily. But how to deal with >> an appointment move? A resize (change in duration)? A delete? A >> double click for an edit? Each of these has the additional problem >> that they can be made on the fly, and there can be many of them. How >> much of this can be moved in to a @Script? I'm of course aiming to >> have each of the listener impl methods in my Planner class, backing >> Planner.page and Planner.html, which will have the planner from >> dhtmlgoodies inside. >> >> So does anyone have any suggestions on which road to go down? I know >> my quick and dirty will work, but I'm not sure if this second >> approach will work, nor how much time it will take, but it seems like >> it is closer to "the right way to do it". What is the right way? >> >> Thanks, >> >> J >> >> -- >> Julian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Software Engineer >> Teaching & Learning Centre >> University of Calgary >> >> http://tlc.ucalgary.ca >> >> >> > > > -- > Jesse Kuhnert > Tapestry/Dojo team member/developer > > Open source based consulting work centered around > dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://blog.opencomponentry.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Julian Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Software Engineer Teaching & Learning Centre University of Calgary http://tlc.ucalgary.ca
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