Hello, I have got a few questions and this may end up very long so sorry.
I came from the Web Application development style using PHP, a few console programming in C but never had a full blown GUI Desktop application experience. I can now fairly see the difference in both development. I admire the work and elegance of Dabo, the style, the ideas are very well engineered. That's why even for a complete newbie in Python, let alone Desktop Applications, I chose this Framework. Enough with the admiration and on to the questions, 1. Example I have a password field connected to the datasource and datafield in a MySQL table. I also have another field which is a confirm password, this one is of course no connected to the datasource. On the OnHit method of a button, I called in the self.Form.save(). I did some validations on empty fields and it works just like in the tutorial. But I never got the way to compare if the two password fields match each other using the validateRecord() Method of the Bizobj. By the way, I was following the Create application from start tutorial using my own tables. So, how can I get the value of the confirm password textbox using the bizobj? Should I create another method to validate it, using the Form as the caller of a Bizobj method passing the two textboxes values as parameters? Or should I just use the self.Application.ui way? 2. In CodeIgniter a PHP MVC Web Framework, I use the Model to handle all the queries, I write my input and output queries in methods like add_new_user(data) and get_selected_members(data). Then this methods pass the result of the query or the dataset back to the Controller. That way when some SQL guy decides to change my queries for optimization, he can play with it while I do the business logic. Is there anyway to this in Dabo? I was thinking of using the db Folder as the storage for my Model Classes. Oh and I would also like to write my own SQL queries rather than the alchemy stuffs. 3. Lastly, for now. Let's say have a table which has a ID, Name, Address, Image and Status as fields. Of course I wouldn't show my ID but dabo already takes care of this. I would also not show my status field cause I update them according to events or user choices. How can I do that in the bizobjs? When I call self.Form.save() I won't be able to access it through the self.Record.Status cause it is not in the form. Should I use a query in the validateRecord to fetch the chosen user? Or could I still access the self.Record.Status without it being included in my Form? Sorry for the long questions. It may be the most pointless one in the whole mail list. I just wanted to clarify these things, it really gets confusing when coming from a web app background and a web MVC architecture. I use Windows Xp, Python 2.7, Dabo 0.9.3, wxPython 2.8. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
