select and combo controls

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2008/07/05 01:12

I'm looking at this library for a new AJAX system framework that I've developed in XHTML. Presently banging my head against a wall with Activewidgets...

DL at least has FANTASTIC documentation!, but I need these controls.

I'm sorry, we don't have these widgets “per se” (I'll keep them in mind for the next version). It should be pretty easy to create them based on existing widgets. For example, for a combo box you would use a DlHbox to lay out horizontally a DlEntry and a DlButton. The button will have a drop-down icon and will use a DlPopup to display the menu. The entry can even be a DlCompletionEntry in order to provide automatic completion for the existing items.

We have a DlRadioSelect widget which can be used as a drop-down select. If by “select” you mean a simple list, again, it's quite easy to create with existing widgets... You would use a plain DlContainer and DlButton-s to display items (properly styled from CSS they can be made to look like a list item rather than a button). These buttons would have the TWOSTATE type, so they can be selected or unselected, and will share the same radio group in order to allow only one of them to be selected at a time.

Sorry for the scarce hints, but based on them and the existing documentation you should be able to create these widgets. (BTW I'm glad you find our documentation good; good it is, but it's rather incomplete for now; I hope to improve with the next version.)

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myshka

2008/07/08 14:46

making it all work §

I appreciate your reply. I don't, as yet, have the skill to put it all together without investing a lot of time to really learning your system and how you're putting it all together. The documentation is fantastic, but not that far for me. I'm a system's designer and work mostly in databases and procedural languages. Becoming a competent javascript programmer, but not that good yet.

I'll look forward to the next version when you can include these as standard controls. My application development system, Pavuk IDF, has separate rendering engines for XHTML and ActiveWidgets that are now working nicely. Putting in a rendering engine for DL is not a big task. The really neat thing is that someone building an application in Pavuk IDF doesn't have to know how to write any code... I'm planning on releasing this product in early 2009. Right now building a large medical application.

Of course, if you would like to make examples using the existing code, as you suggest, I'd be happy to try them out prior to your next version.

I plan to be in Slovakia this fall and can pop over to Romania and buy you a beer!