Hi Stefan, You might want to check out this video as well or the wiki one.
http://vimeo.com/6507384 Cheers, Chris On Oct 24, 2:05 pm, znafets <znaf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I think Sebastian is right. Being in a similar place I did not manage > yet to find out how to create a form with self located fields and > styles and attributes. Better said all of the examples I found handle > with the default layout of the SQLFORM/FORM generated form. Yeah I > know there are some tries of explain it in the user group and in the > FAQs, but not complete enough to get it. (especially when you need > data from two tables in the form) > As I purchased the book, too , four weeks ago and read _ALL_ the FAQs > on this topic and the examples and, and, and now since two weeks I > still didn't find any example, snippet, explanation that could > enlighten me enough to get the job done. Well you could state that I > am simply too dumb to get it --- but that could be a good reason to > ask if there is really everything there to get people on speed. > (btw. I am not that bad in Python) > > I would, like Sebastian, highly appreciate if there was something like > a snippet site where users could file some code where they solved > problems all of the web2py users will hit very likely. I am also with > Sebastian when he says that you guys are really good and responsive in > this group, just sometimes the answers are a bit biased from the deep > knowledge of you guys with web2py that the answers are a bit brief and > hard to catch for a web2py rookie > > web2py is impressing and really a great piece of work, thank you > Massimo and all who contributed to this awesome framework. > Still the help you can provide could be completed by such a snippet > site. > > just think about it > > best regards > > Stefan > > On 24 Okt., 18:48, Sebastian Brandt <snoogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > thanks for your message. > > > I already bought the book few days ago and I am reading it to get more > > into web2py. > > > I already had a look at the examples and they helped me in some point > > but I think that more easy examples can help more users. > > I think it is a really good thing that the appliances are with source > > code but they are very complex and with small knowledge in python and > > the web2py framework it is very hard to understand what the code is > > doing and why. > > Sometimes it is just a little frustrating that my personal knowledge > > is so small and I don't understand how stuff works. :-) > > Thanks anyways > > Sebastian > > > On 24 Okt., 17:37, CJSteel <chris.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Sebastien, > > > > A ton of examples are around, although I know when I was first > > > checking out web2py it was a bit difficult to "find" them. Web2py > > > ships with some good ones but it takes some time to figure out which > > > parts go with which examples. > > > > You can also find some basic examples of functionality here > > > ->http://www.web2py.com/examples/default/examples > > > > If you are looking for more complete applications try googling "web2py > > > appliances" or visithttp://www.web2py.com/applianceswhereyouwill > > > find complete applications that you can install and checkout. > > > > At this point in time the "ultimate" resource is the web2py book > > > (second edition) on Lulu @ $12.00 US last time I checked. > > > > Once you get oriented you probably want to take a peek at the T3 and > > > web2py-wiki projects. T3 gives you an idea of what is possible with > > > web2py and web2py-wiki is perhaps a less experimental example of a > > > working application / appliance. Both are full of working examples of > > > interesting ways in which one can leverage the framework and both can > > > be run on GAE. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Chris > > > > On Oct 24, 10:56 am, Sebastian Brandt <snoogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > as I have been playing around with web2py a few days now I made was > > > > always looking for example code / tutorials that could teach me > > > > web2py. > > > > As the community around web2py is not that big (also I really admire > > > > and dig especially Massimo and everyone else for answering every > > > > question here) I was wondering if there is a dedicated place for > > > > collecting sample code snippets that shortly explain and show what > > > > that code is doing (besides from what is already at web2py.com) that > > > > everyone can contribute to? > > > > > If not, would anyone like to code something like that? ;-) > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > Sebastian Brandt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
