That is an age old dilemma. The solution that we have come up with takes advantage of the wizard markup language and visual tool markup language offered in Cold Fusion Studio or (HomeSite). It is still not drag-n-drop but you can educate the designer as to how you want a particular component used and or just create a wizard that walks them through the process. If you want to use a free tool for creating the tag editors for Studio or HomeSite feel free to use this one.
http://www.netwebapps.com/mytags/main.cfm Bryan LaPlante -----Original Message----- From: Maurice Munoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Visual page layout and custom JSP tags with height and width Why would you want designer to work on jsp page to begin with? Shouldn' they be designing? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:47 PM Subject: Visual page layout and custom JSP tags with height and width > One of the stated goals for JSP custom tags is to make it easy for web page > designers to work on JSP pages without having to know Java. Yet, it seems > that current visual page editors do not support any way to visually > represent custom tags that represent GUI components. Thus, if you add a > custom tag like this: > > <mytags:grid height="400" width="600"/> > > to a JSP page, when viewed in design mode nothing appears on the page in the > visual editor. This makes it difficult for a web page designer to visually > layout a page without resorting to placing a <div> tag (which can then have > background colors or borders) around a custom tag for a GUI component with > height and width attributes. > > Are any of you encountering this issue? If so, how are you dealing with it? > How do you think this issue should be handled by an IDE? Do you know of any > that do? > > Thanks, > Steve > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
