On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Brian G <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mar 23, 8:38 am, Dan Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 3) Example Applications
> >     We want to ship the product with several example applications. I have
> > some I'll submit and others on the team will contribute as well.
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> I'd rather see the two other things prioritized over this.  I consider
> example apps "nice to have" and they require a pretty significant
> amount of work.  Remember how actionpacks really never materialized?


For the past month or so I've taken the Widget example application that came
with MG2 and made some improvements to it, the most notable one being
integration with Validat <http://validat.riaforge.org/>. I uploaded it to
RIAForge as a project I named Walidget <http://walidget.riaforge.org/>but
the source is only available via SVN right now. My primary motivation for
putting the code on RIAForge was to show some addons I wrote for Validat and
as a source for ColdSpring.xml examples for a ColdSpring presentation I am
scheduled to make at webDU in May.

If there is a need for example applications for MG3, I am quite happy to
adapt my Walidget project to target new features in MG3. I only learned
about the new features of MG3 after finding the PDF embedded in the ZIP
file. I like to go beyond just making the app work in in a framework and
have app to make the best use of the framework's available features, so as
long as I know what those are I think I can turn Walidget (or something like
it) into a useful example application.

I realize that converting my Walidget project to MG3 would not be a straight
port. It still uses scaffolding which is not supported yet in MG3, but I
find that scaffolding is much cooler in theory than in practice so I don't
mind ripping it out of my app.


PS. Are exit events deprecated in MG3?  I didn't see it used in any of the
currently bundled examples. Exit events seem like a good idea to me: it
makes it easier for me to see how events are linked in an MG2 app, as well
as making views potentially more reusable. Did any of you guys learn
something about exit events that suggests we shouldn't be using them any
more?

Cheers,

Dennis

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