Hi Phyo, I have exactly the same question as yours when you first started this thread 1 month ago. can you share your working sample with qooxdoo and web2py integration? I am interested in using Qooxdoo for custom UI in front of web2py. Thanks, Wen
my email=wen.g.g...@gmail.com On Sep 19, 3:31 pm, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > yeah , how abt retrofittingQooxdoointo pyjamas? it should work. It > will be easier. Then introduce it into web2py how thats soudns? I only > tested pyjamas a bit. > > after coding mnore and more inQooxdoo,I realize jquery-UI main > weakness is making user depending on html and css , and selectors. > Actually that wont work for application style UIs. > > why i like about qooxdoois i never (really never) have to look back > at html and CSS at all. another main point is as i am a java hater , > even thoqooxdoocode is much like java its still in javascript so its > a lot easier.And not like GWT it dont need java to do anything at all > just python to generate and compile code :) . > > On 9/20/11, Ross Peoples <ross.peop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have been looking atqooxdooas a replacement for jQuery UI for quite a > > while, since they seem to have a nice set of widgets. I don't know why it > > takes the jQuery UI team over a year to make a menubar widget (that's still > > not finished), when you could probably write your own high-quality version > > in a couple of days. That is the one thing that really bugs me about jQuery > > UI: the seemingly stagnent development pace. I understand that things like > > accessibility take a little more time, but other frameworks (and even > > individuals) can crank out new widgets in no time that are sometimes higher > > quality than the jQuery UI ones. (end rant) > > > Anyways, as you mentioned, web2py is focused more on traditional HTML. > >Qooxdooseems to generate its own HTML based on the JavaScript code you > > enter (like with desktop programming). It seems more like an AJAX > > application builder rather than an HTML additive, like jQuery. Before coming > > to web2py, I evaluated Vaadin, which is a Java server/client integrated > > framework that is built on Google Web Toolkit (like pyjamas is). Only you > > program everything in Java. It's pretty powerful and the widgets were the > > best I've ever seen (quite a lot of them too). The only problem with it > > though is that trying to do something that would be simple with HTML and > > JavaScript would require you to make your own widget and recompile the > > entire widget set. It was great for working inside the box, but way too > > difficult if you wanted to step outside the box. > > > Enough with the babbling: what we would need to do is make aqooxdoohelper > > that can generate JS code for the widgets. However, it might just be easier > > for everyone to write their own JavaScript, since it's well documented on > > theqooxdoosite. As for the AJAX communications, according to theqooxdoo > > site:http://manual.qooxdoo.org/1.4.x/pages/communication/rpc.htmlthey use > > JSON-RPC, which web2py already supports. They also have a Python RPC server > > (for an older version of > >qooxdoo):http://qooxdoo.org/contrib/project/rpcpythonso that could > > probably integrated into a web2py plugin or contrib module. Source > > link: > >https://qooxdoo-contrib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/qooxdoo-contrib/t... > > > So to have web2py supportqooxdooapps, it would take a little bit of work, > > but it's totally do-able, and some of the pieces are already there.
