Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages

[Cees Hek]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:

> Hmmm. I had not thought of this because we do not provide this capability 
> now in the Java widget library that we have and we don't really miss it.
> 
> For color, most UI widgets do not have color. For font and height, I think 
> that most designers don't change this often and if they do, it can be 
> adjusted in the config file ... usually the widgets themselves don't change 
> -- it's the stuff around the forms that do 90% of the time.

I guess what I am really thinking about is things like JavaScript Events.  
The widget would be able to automatically add an onChange JS function to
do client side validation of data.  But a designer might want to add an
onMouseOver to a widget that will display a layer with a hint describing
how that field should be filled in.

You could just add support for MouseOver Hints to the widget library, but
I could probably come up with a bunch of other things a designer might
want to change on a widget to get it to do, and look how they want.

Cees