[Lift] Re: buttons and textbox

2009-05-03 Thread Meredith Gregory
Lifted, When i look at the button behavior using firebug, this is the following error i see. F891109765602PT1 is not defined onclick(click clientX=950, clientY=152)1tbfBLwe...6bg%3D%3D (line 2) (F891109765602PT1, lift_ajaxHand...whatField).attr(value), null, null)); It would appear that however

[Lift] Re: buttons and textbox

2009-05-03 Thread marius d.
Greg, ajaxCall returns a tuple (String, JsExp) ... so when you use it try something like: (onclick - ajaxCall(JsRaw($('#whatField').attr('value')), s = updateWhat(s))._2) Br's, Marius On May 3, 9:00 am, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.com wrote: Lifted, When i look at the button

[Lift] Re: buttons and textbox

2009-05-03 Thread marius d.
First of all instead of: (onclick - ajaxCall(JsRaw($('#whatField').attr('value')), s = updateWhat(s))._2) I would use: (onclick - ajaxCall(ValById(whatField), s = updateWhat(s))._2) That should work I think in your case you are setting the value attribute of the text field to

[Lift] Re: buttons and textbox

2009-05-03 Thread Meredith Gregory
Marius, Thanks! That works much better. One final question, if i wanted to have the CR/LF event on the textbox have the same behavior as the button, what would be the simplest approach? Currently, i have { text(evalStr(), (updateWhat _)) % (size - 60) % (id - whatField) } which always reverts

[Lift] Re: Localize an image

2009-05-03 Thread marius d.
As a continuation to Tim's notes. You can have templates suffixed with the locale suffix. So for the template applicable for one locale or another just use different CSS files. I guess you can also use chooseTemplate to render different variants of the markup in question. Br's, Marius On May

[Lift] Re: stuck on some scala while using jpa

2009-05-03 Thread TSP
OK to answer own question in case anyone has similar problems: ScalaEntityManager returns a bufferWrapper from the jcl.Conversions not a List. However, it can be treated as a Seq[Postcode] --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[Lift] Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-03 Thread Marius
Hi, I'm asking this because SHtml.a is a bit a-typical in the sense of producing lift:a that will render the ajax link eventually. I don't quite see the point of lift:a since it needs a key impersonating the user's function name which is unknown in the template ... well unless you are using

[Lift] Re: how to add object into session scope in lift

2009-05-03 Thread Andrew Scherpbier
David Pollak wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Andrew Scherpbier and...@scherpbier.org mailto:and...@scherpbier.org wrote: The Getting Started document got me hooked on Lift. :-) I guess I'll report my struggles from there. I don't know if what I did is

[Lift] Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread Dunsun
Hi, I'm very new to lift and scala. I have made some Grails intranet applications but sadly Grails or better say GSP rendering part which is completely written in Groovy is a very slow beast (even in comparison with Rails or Django). For my future big project (heavy loaded site) I need

[Lift] Logging Exception

2009-05-03 Thread sailormoo...@gmail.com
Hello: I got an exception 2009-05-03 10:31:23.203::WARN: failed LiftFilter java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/slf4j/LoggerFactory at net.liftweb.util.Slf4jLogBoot$.net$liftweb$util$Slf4jLogBoot $$_logger ByName(Slf4jLog.scala:59) while I added class Boot { def boot {

[Lift] User model

2009-05-03 Thread ishaaq
Hi all, I've just started playing with Lift so forgive me if this question seems a bit naive - that would be because I am a newbie :) I am trying to build a webapp with user authentication. However, I don't want to use ProtoUser because I want to key it by the userid - which is a unique String

[Lift] Re: objet vs class for snippets

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
Tim, Dispatching snippets by registering with LiftRules is much faster than the by convention mechanism of looking up the class name. It's also type-safe (an issue that Greg Meredith ran into last week.) So, it's a few more lines of code, but better. Unless you've got a Stateful Snippet, you

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
Are you running Lift in production or development mode? I typically see 300 pages/second to 800 pages/second when I do benchmarks on dual core opteron machines. I'll look into this, but you should be seeing north of 300 pages per second with simple pages in Lift. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM,

[Lift] Re: User model

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:48 AM, ishaaq ish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've just started playing with Lift so forgive me if this question seems a bit naive - that would be because I am a newbie :) I am trying to build a webapp with user authentication. However, I don't want to use

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Guryca
Anybody ? I have spent more then month testing various frameworks. Just found lift and spent the whole Friday by learning scala. I liked it. Time is not my friend ... I just have to choose the right language + framework combo for my 3 other colleges and our coming project. Any comment is

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Guryca
Hi David, Thank you for your reply. How and where can I set production vs development mode in lift ? Thank you again. Daniel On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:12 PM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.comwrote: Are you running Lift in production or development mode? I typically see 300

[Lift] Re: how to add object into session scope in lift

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Andrew Scherpbier and...@scherpbier.orgwrote: David Pollak wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Andrew Scherpbier and...@scherpbier.org mailto:and...@scherpbier.org wrote: The Getting Started document got me hooked on Lift. :-) I

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Daniel Guryca dun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Thank you for your reply. How and where can I set production vs development mode in lift ? Set the run.mode system property to production I do that with -Drun.mode=production when I start Jetty, but you may do

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
Hi Daniel, You can pass the following to mvn: -Drun.mode=production. --Bryan On May 3, 9:18 am, Daniel Guryca dun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Thank you for your reply. How and where can I set production vs development mode in lift ? Thank you again. Daniel On Sun, May 3, 2009 at

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose axel.roesl...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello Charles, I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. Anyway: It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a new archetype with maven. The Maven mini

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread Daniel Guryca
Hey .. I'm not saying that you anwered my questione slowly ! I'm very impressed that you are dealing with mailing list even on your free time on weekend ! I just wanted to clear up why I'm in hurry. regards Daniel On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:34 PM, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.comwrote:

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread richard.car...@me.com
My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great start. That would be a useful foundation for the rest of Lift's features (add-ons such as

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like me to do. --Bryan On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose axel.roesl...@googlemail.comwrote: Hello Charles,

[Lift] Re: How to handle refresh with S.redirectTo with state?

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
I believe I am doing #1 now with no luck. Let me know if this is correct: class Cars { // ... object locationQuery extends RequestVar[Box[LocationQuery]](Empty) def search(xhtml: NodeSeq): NodeSeq = { def processSearch() = { // ... val lq = new

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Wow! Too lazy to register?! IMO, registration is a one-time event and is needed to combat spam / bot activity. Rather than having a system where people complain / suggest alterations, we prefer people to just get on and change them... Power to the people! On 03/05/2009 14:33, Axel Rose

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Richard, its a shame you feel like that. Your comments about examples are noted, however you must bear in mind that both scala and lift are young (relatively speaking) and a lot of the applications that are out there, are behind corporate firewalls (including mine) - so don't be fooled into

[Lift] Re: Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Marius, To clarify, your saying that you'd like to get rid of lift:a and move the functionality into SHtml or something? Thanks, Tim On May 3, 11:51 am, Marius marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm asking this because SHtml.a is a bit a-typical in the sense of producing lift:a that will

[Lift] Re: Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-03 Thread marius d.
Well SHtml.a yields a lift:a and processed in its own snippet now. I guess I'm only challenging the need for lift:a ... and try to understand in what context people really use it. Br's, Marius On May 3, 11:12 pm, Timothy Perrett timo...@getintheloop.eu wrote: Marius, To clarify, your saying

[Lift] Re: Do you guys ever use lift:a key=... ... in your templates?

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
So your trying to asscertain if people use lift:a directly in there template code? On May 3, 9:35 pm, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Well SHtml.a yields a lift:a and processed in its own snippet now. I guess I'm only challenging the need for lift:a ... and try to understand in what

[Lift] Article about URL rewriting in Lift

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Guys, Thought people might find this an interesting article about lift's URL rewriting system and help out some newbies :-) http://is.gd/wq4K Cheers, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Lift group.

[Lift] Re: Logging Exception

2009-05-03 Thread Timothy Perrett
Have you configured your dependencies? Perhaps this will help: http://scala-tools.org/mvnsites-snapshots/liftweb/lift-util/scaladocs/net/liftweb/util/Slf4jLogBoot$object.html Cheers, Tim On May 3, 3:35 am, sailormoo...@gmail.com sailormoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: I got an exception

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Axel. Will take this under consideration. Chas. Axel Rose wrote: Hello Charles, I know I'm a bit late for your request to consolidate the lift wiki. Anyway: It's really puzzling to me to get the version numbers right, when creating a new archetype with maven. The Maven

[Lift] textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread Meredith Gregory
Lifted, i gave up on trying to understand how to to the brain-dead simple version of what i was trying to do and went for a more complex version. This works (better, anyways). However, i notice that despite the instructions to render the textarea with 1 row, it is rendering it with about 10 rows.

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks, Richard. Very helpful. Chas. richard.car...@me.com wrote: My personal view is that a worked example of a fully featured eCommerce type site would be most useful. Even something as simple as a cut down Amazon style store with inventory management would be a great start. That would be

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Thanks! Will do! Chas. Bryan. wrote: I'd like to help with the wiki as well. Let me know if there is anything in particular that you would like me to do. --Bryan On May 3, 9:46 am, David Pollak feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Axel Rose

[Lift] Re: textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread TylerWeir
If you're using the standard CSS, it's likely blueprint is controlling the size: http://blueprintcss.org/blueprint/src/forms.css On May 3, 6:16 pm, Meredith Gregory lgreg.mered...@gmail.com wrote: Lifted, i gave up on trying to understand how to to the brain-dead simple version of what i

[Lift] Re: textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread Meredith Gregory
Tyler, Charles, Thanks for the tip! i decided that it looks like i've intended for people to input more complex expressions. So, i've left the size the way it is. (You know in jazz when you play a wrong note once, it's a mistake, but if you keep hammering it, it's what you meant to do. i'm

[Lift] Re: textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Do you mean a rich text editor? Something like TinyMCE? http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ Or something less bulky than that? Chas. Meredith Gregory wrote: Tyler, Charles, Thanks for the tip! i decided that it looks like i've intended for people to input more complex expressions. So, i've

[Lift] Re: textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread Meredith Gregory
Charles, That's pretty cool. i'll give it a whirl. It's a little bulky, but bulk can have it's merits (although i'm told it's not the meat, it's the motion ;-). Best wishes, --greg On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Charles F. Munat c...@munat.com wrote: Do you mean a rich text editor?

[Lift] Re: textarea overrides?

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
I wasn't recommending it, just using it as an example. What you probably want is this: http://dev.jquery.com/wiki/Plugins/tinyMCE There's also a version for YUI, I think. Chas. Meredith Gregory wrote: Charles, That's pretty cool. i'll give it a whirl. It's a little bulky, but bulk can

[Lift] How would I call a template from another template?

2009-05-03 Thread EmEhRKay
Very simple idea - I have a tags template that I put in the templates- hidden directory, it creates a list of tags. In one of my public templates I want to be able to call that template to display the tags (I'm sure it has been done before and I cannot find in either book where this is covered).

[Lift] Re: How to handle refresh with S.redirectTo with state?

2009-05-03 Thread Bryan.
Would that mean that the state of the RequestVar could accidentally be shared with multiple requests? On May 3, 1:51 pm, marius d. marius.dan...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm ... the code seems to be fine (as far as I can tell from the code snippet) Can you perhaps declare your RequestVars outside

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Axel Rose
Formalities or content? http://wiki.liftweb.net/index.php/Maven_Mini_Guide must be improved. For people not accustomed to maven it is very hard to grasp the versions/release/snapshot/pom dependencies. Various articles use various version numbers when building examples. I, personally, got lost.

[Lift] Re: Cannot access html files other than index.html in GAE using lift

2009-05-03 Thread Dan Greening
I just broke my teeth on this problem also (and 2 days wasted later I discover this thread). I would say Doh!, but this is hardly a Doh type of thing. Security is important, but also as a new framework, you want rapid uptake by people who won't read 5 chapters of a book before trying something

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Tom Arnold
Hello List! I might as well share my thoughts about docs. I think as with Scala and Lift you should try to beat the best that is out there. And from all the user made language/API/framework wikis I have seen the one from a now pretty unpopular game is by far the best:

[Lift] Re: Article about URL rewriting in Lift

2009-05-03 Thread Andrew Scherpbier
Wow, this is awesome! Can a link to this be provided from the wiki/getting started guide/api docs? --Andrew Timothy Perrett wrote: Guys, Thought people might find this an interesting article about lift's URL rewriting system and help out some newbies :-) http://is.gd/wq4K Cheers, Tim

[Lift] Is there a bulk update function ?

2009-05-03 Thread sailormoo...@gmail.com
Hi : From the Lift Book, there is a bulk delete function. Expense.bulkDelete_!!(By_(Expense.dateOf, date)) However, I want a bulk update function, is there one or if I must to update it one by one? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[Lift] Re: Sample applications are somewhat slow - is Lift slow ?

2009-05-03 Thread David Pollak
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Daniel Guryca dun...@gmail.com wrote: I have just tried mvn -Drun.mode=production jetty:run ... but sadly still getting same performance. I ran a simple test (the same command line as you) on my 2.67 Ghz Core i7 machine and saw 600 pages per second. Granted,

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
Tom, Thanks for this link! The Second Life wiki is very interesting, and makes it obvious that one can do a lot with MediaWiki. I'll definitely spend some time exploring it. Chas. Tom Arnold wrote: Hello List! I might as well share my thoughts about docs. I think as with Scala and

[Lift] Re: Lift documentation -- Attention newcomers (and everyone else)!

2009-05-03 Thread Charles F. Munat
James, This looks more like about $20, but I'm not complaining. Your thoughts mirror mine in many ways. #4 is a very good idea. Even just a list of what is needed. Folks could add to a documentation wishlist, and then anyone who thought he or she could tackle an item could just do it. I'm