Hi all, First of all, I'm new to Qooxdoo and almost know nothing about JavaScript (JS). I'm a pascal programmer using FreePascal compiler and Lazarus IDE. So, please apologize me if my understanding about Qooxdoo or JS in general sounds silly. :D
I want to write a wrapper of Qooxdoo framework for Pascal. I'm now a user of ExtPascal (http://extpascal.googlecode.com) to write web applications (RIA) using Pascal. Due to some reasons, license is one of them, I want to write a similar program like ExtPascal but for Qooxdoo. Of course, before doing it, I need to learn about Qooxdoo. After a brief study of Qooxdoo's API and examples, about 2-3 hours, I found Qooxdoo's OO implementation is better and neater compare to ExtJS. Qooxdoo's API documentation, which become the input for the wrapper, is easier to parse because it's already in JSON formatted document (apidata.json). So, writing the Pascal unit and class generator is almost a no-brainer. However, I found some obstacles before I moving on further. Here they are: 1. Qooxdoo has mixin, which is not available in (object) Pascal. I thought this would stop me to continue my effort. But, after I looked at QWT (Qooxdoo for GWT), I found that it's able to provide mixin for GWT (Java), which is like Pascal also doesn't support mixin. So, I believe there must be some trick (or hack?) about how to implement mixin within a language that doesn't support mixin. Can you share it with me? 2. Qooxdoo, instead of providing a ready-to-use all-in-one JS file for the framework as ExtJS (ext-all.js), is using deployment scenario using generate.py tool. For pure JS development, it's all good. But for on-the-fly JS creation as in my case, that wouldn't be possible. But, after I looked at Delphi for PHP, which is using Qooxdoo (0.7.2?) for its widgets, only supply qx.js without any other build tool or build mechanism. So, I believe there must be some way to extract Qooxdoo framework into a single ready-to-use JS file. Is there a tool for that? Or somekind of tutorial to make that? So far, those are the main obstacles for me to continue this effort. I'll be happy if there are solutions for them because I planned to left ExtJS completely and moving to Qooxdoo. For any answers or responses, I thank you in advance. PS. Sorry if my English sounds weird. :) -- -Bee- ...making buzzes at http://twitter.com/beezing ...writing stories at http://beeography.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
