Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-17 Thread Mark
Ok I see now, thanks for the help, Mark On Jun 16, 8:38 pm, Ian Bambury ianbamb...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, just for completeness If so, would the call the add(new Label(items from dom)) be redundant? As you have probably worked out, the data for the dictionary is taken from a JavaScript

Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-16 Thread Mark
Ian, I took a look at the Dictionary class, but I don't understand. Where is the dictionary getting the user and name elements from? Is a PHP script supposed to generate them, then in GWT I can just link up to the items I need in the entry point method? If so, would the call the add(new

Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-16 Thread Ian Bambury
You have to output the data for the Dictionary from the PHP script via a JavaScript script. In a simple PHP script which creates your index file, put in something like: echo script language='javascript'var user = {\fname\: \Firstname\, \lname\: \Lastname\};/script'; and then in

Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-14 Thread Jeff Chimene
On 06/13/2009 08:40 PM, markww wrote: Hi, This is a general question about GWT and user interfaces. In my (limited) use with PHP, the server was responsible for generation of most of the 'UI'. Each script would emit some html which the client browsers download and render. If we wanted to

Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-14 Thread Mark
Hi Jeff, I took a look at the presentation you linked, it pretty much sums up all the reasons I want to use GWT. You're right, I'll basically have to make a prototype and see how it works for my end users, Thanks On Jun 14, 12:28 pm, Jeff Chimene jchim...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/13/2009 08:40

Re: Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-14 Thread Ian Bambury
A simpler solution with no Ajax call would be: public class MyProject implements EntryPoint { public void onModuleLoad() { RootPanel.get().add(new Label(Dictionary.getDictionary(user).get(name))); } } Ian http://examples.roughian.com 2009/6/14 markww mar...@gmail.com Hi,

Generating UI with GWT or PHP

2009-06-13 Thread markww
Hi, This is a general question about GWT and user interfaces. In my (limited) use with PHP, the server was responsible for generation of most of the 'UI'. Each script would emit some html which the client browsers download and render. If we wanted to write a project only using GWT for the