Well, what do you guys think? Does 7 days of silence amount to agreement??
I'll be happy to make any mods you suggest and resubmit source to you for
inclusion...
#define SUBJECT_DRIFT_ON
Also, I have a "2 line" minor tweak to the forms-calendar-styling.xsl that
disables the "calendar icon/popup" when a datetype="date" widget is set to
readonly, disabled, or hidden (in these cases, we don't want an icon or
popup - ESPECIALLY when the widget is supposed to be "hidden").
The change was simple, in
cocoon/samples/blocks/forms/resources/forms-calendar-styling.xsl
I added:
<xsl:if test="not(fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'disabled'] or
fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'readonly'] or fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'hidden'])">
around the calendar HTML anchor.
The modified code segment in that file now reads:
<!-- calendar popup -->
<xsl:if test="not(fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'disabled'] or
fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'readonly'] or fi:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'hidden'])">
<a href="#" name="{$id}" id="{$id}"
onClick="forms_calendar.select(forms_getForm(this)['[EMAIL
PROTECTED]'],'{$id}','
{$format}'); return false;">
<img src="{$resources-uri}/cal.gif" border="0" alt="Calendar"/>
</a>
</xsl:if>
All that I added was the surrounding <xsl:if> block. It works great!!
Should I move this to a separate CONTRIBUTION thread or is this simple
enough that you would just get it into the cvs archive??
Thanks again - I hope these contributions are seen more helpful than the
pain they are to include them in the distribution... (And IMHO, how can you
get a better deal than a free ghost-writer?? ;-)
David
-----Original Message-----
From: depub2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:32 PM
To: CocoonDev
Subject: Re: CONTRIBUTION: repeater-widget (insert row):
InsertRowsActionDefinition
Can we get a few quick yay/nays??
Sylvain is considering incorporation of the changes noted below... Could we
hear a few words of encouragement (or discouragement) from a couple of
people so this item can be closed and completed.
Thanks to all! David
> Sylvain wrote:
depub2 wrote:
>Hello Folks,
>
>I would like to make a small contribution to the cocoon repeater-widget
>(insert row) and would like someone (Sylvain Wallez?) to accept my code; so
>I'll be a "ghostwriter" as it does not make sense for me to maintain this
>small piece of code.
>
>Specifically, I would like to add something like:
> package org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel;
> public class InsertRowsActionDefinition extends RepeaterActionDefinition
>{}
>
>It will act like DeleteRowsActionDefinition; but instead will insert a
>single row in front of each of the selected rows. This sure seems like a
>natural need for the repeater! Yes?!?
>
>
Sorry, it doesn't seem natural to me, and I never saw such behaviour,
particularily inserting several rows at once and inserting them before
the selected row.
Now I understand that the set of available repeater-actions is currently
limited, and that "add-row" that inserts a new row at the end of the
repeater may not be the most convenient when you want to insert a row at
an arbitrary place in the repeater (although you have the "add-after"
row-action).
So IMO the behaviour of an "add-rows" action should be to add rows
_after_ the selected rows. This kind of interaction usually involves a
single selection, but we could find it acceptable that it is generalized
to inserting a row after all selected rows.
What do people think?
Sylvain
> Hi Sylvain,
> As you mention it, I think "add-rows" would be as-good or better than
"insert-rows".
> Since the change is fairly trivial to the tested "insert-rows" code you
> now have from me, it might even be worthwhile to have both "insert-rows"
and
> "add-rows" and allow the user / GUI designer to select their choice.
> Perhaps the repeater samples code could be modified to only demonstrate
> "add-rows" to "steer" a GUI designer in that more favorable direction.
>
> One nice side-effect of multiple-checked insert-rows/add-rows capability
is
> that multiple-selection enables one to rapidly insert multiple rows
through
> exponentially increasing iterations of inserts. (check 1, check 2, check
4,
> check 8...) Just to clarify, "my code's" behavior is that a _single_ row
is
> inserted above (below is fine too) every selected row. Adding 32 new/blank
> rows is simply a 5x "add-rows" operation. Perhaps it would be helpful to
> "pre-select" the rows that were added so that this multiple exponential
> insert is even easier on the user, so they don't have to check the boxes.
> Woe unto them that later perform "delete-rows" without deselecting first.
>
> As it turns out, multiple-select insertion was easier to implement than
> single-selection, based on copying the delete-rows code and minor tweak.
>
> If you find it difficult to modify the samples code, I could probably
> do it and email it to you.
> Best, David Epperly -depub2
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