wow nice.. 2010/10/23 mart <msenecal...@gmail.com>
> Hi, > > Love the wiZ2py (my daughter coined that one, because she's six and > always sounds strange when over-tired and has the giggles - at least > that's what it sounded like). I do look forward to many more > iterations, all as great and fascinating as the next I sure. > > was thinking... there are so many things that you can be do with the > wizard, and I doubt you will be lacking any ideas, but here's mine > anyways. I spend a lot of time, or rather often drift off on tangents > (that's better), mostly by accident, where, for example, there was an > thread on sidebars, something I never tried (yes, I"m still new to web > apps)... And I am very certain, that many folks drift off and get lost > while exploring web2py as well (just a normal thing I would think with > fun and fascinating things)... anyways, the side bars as an example... > I tried Massimo's tip, a bit of tweaking, then experimenting, then > Jonathan jumped in and mentioned the HTML5 sidebars (great, something > more but related to look at and try out), then Bruno posts something > he does for his Car Sale app... then, well the night is young... > > yes, there is a point;) so anyways, for some reason, I found my self > on that EZ CSS site, well... need I say more? what a great place when > you have a few hours, and feel like trying stuff out! So I did, and as > it turns out, I did not massacre everything (aesthetically speaking) > although most did turn out to be pretty ugly, admittedly. But that > wasn't the point either... the point is: I wouldn't be able to > reproduce the steps I took where something did turn out decent enough > to look at a second or third time. saving and/or packing the app is > often not the best solution, because you can't really retrace your > steps there either.... Now the wizard :) Wouldn't be a huge thing > (well, I don't think it would) to either make the wizard (or > extensions of the wizard) available @ "run time", like perhaps one of > those very cool widgets we get to have access to with the widget > builder (without having to leave your page to boot!). Oh, and with the > built-in "changelog" to keep track (right there is a pretty good > match, wizard + changelog, keeping track of the diffs between one > click of the wizard to the next). > > Here's an example: I get to that EZ CSS (fully armed with a brand new > app ready to be I create an app (most likely using the wizard) and I > start playing. Miraculously, I do something where my wife does not > feel she needs to look at me with shame... ;) I could always at that > point save and pack up the app. but then, with the stuff I did, most > of them bad (and that's important), it would take me for ever to > filter out the good stuff amongst the bad... Would be nice to have the > the wizard (or the always accessible wizard plugin (or widget?) > available, to come to the rescue, and simply save some settings (all > stuff it should be able to see, like those CSS settings - the previous > settings may have yielded strange behaviour, but the current settings > may have something I like - so click on widget builder, choose wizard > (option "make me a template") then at least some good parts would be > accessible ti re-use, fix-up, or create another app based on that > template) - maybe a little like the "Recipe" app, but with the wizard? > I'm thinking something that wouldn't add layouts to my pages (although > the layouts are definitely) cool, but rather something that would > maybe re-insert those "pure CSS toggle" switched on my spanking new > blank page (would they be like "auto-widgets"?) > > anyways, just thinking out loud about something I, personally, would > find useful (a couple of table dedicated to "Mart's custom templates > using the Massimo wiZ2py"). > > Thanks for reading and apologies for the lengthy post (again) > Mart :) > > PS, if interested in the feed back, I will be presenting the first rev > (prototype quality) of a very unique build system, where the the guy > standing in front of the crowed will be none other than WEB2PY (I'm > keeping the look of the app "as is", where the word "WEB2PY"and the > Logo is predominant (no, not just because I really suck at making > things look nice, but mostly because i really do like the green > sripes!). I will post relevant feed back, as the front end, the web2by > front end, will generate, lots of comments and/or interest - i expect > thousands of hist in the first day. > > > On Oct 22, 4:37 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > i would take a patch. :-) > > > > On Oct 22, 1:50 pm, guruyaya <guruy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I think a button with a plus sign, near every table field, is more in > > > intuitive, the enter. Don't remove the enter, just add the plus sign > > > too. > > > If you don't do that, for the very least, explain that adding another > > > field is done with enter as well. > > > > > On Oct 22, 10:36 am, dederocks <dediro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for the fix! works with python 2.7 too :-)! > > > > > > On 21 oct, 19:43, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote: > > > > > > > This is very handy. I got an error on step 1 with Python 2.6. I > think > > > > > line 62 of wizard.py should be: > > > > > from gluon.contrib.simplejson import loads > > > > > > > On Oct 21, 7:21 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > app/wizard.metadata > > > > > > > > it is a pickle > > > > > > > > On Oct 21, 5:40 am, blackthorne <francisco....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Back from Egypt and I seem to be looking at something > completely > > > > > > > new... > > > > > > > new website, new wizard thing, great work! > > > > > > > > > I became curious about this. > > > > > > > Does this wizard keep a record in some language such as YAML? > > > > > > > > > It would be nice so that you could share one simple text file > with the > > > > > > > pure application definition, useful for debugging in groups > like this, > > > > > > > useful to share apps or to generate other wizards by simply > defining > > > > > > > in YAML the fields and the prepopulated values.. > > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > > > > On Oct 21, 6:55 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >http://vimeo.com/16048970 > > > > > > > > > > Now I am going to sleep a few ours.... > > > > > -- José F. Luna P.
