Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Builder GUI

2008-05-05 Thread johnl
the same directory as the layouteditor - not > to be confused with Christian's original version. > > >> -Original Message- >> From: johnl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:45 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; qooxdoo Development >>

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Builder GUI

2008-05-05 Thread johnl
Looks good, but I get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./layoutEditor.py", line 33, in from builder import Builder ImportError: No module named builder I can't wait to try it out! jdl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah but it gets better. I've incorporated Christ

[qooxdoo-devel] Javascript number formatting

2008-03-03 Thread johnl
Hello. In our application we are displaying many floating point numbers. Currently I'm using the javascript function toPrecision() to format them, but it doesn't do a very good job with numbers like 3.0e-6: 3.0e-6.toPrecision(4) yields 0.03000 which isn't nice to look at. Does anyone know

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Success story

2008-02-21 Thread johnl
I'll try and do that today. jdl Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi David, > >> I would like to express my thanks to everyone who is or has worked on >> the Qooxdoo framework. We recently released a Qooxdoo-based logging >> system for the MST fusion experiment at the University of >> Wisconsin-Madiso

[qooxdoo-devel] spinner format

2008-01-15 Thread johnl
Is it possible to have a spinner show 2 digits all the time? For example 05 for 5. I'm using spinners to enter a time in an interface, and it would look a bit nicer this way. Thanks, David - This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Tab completion

2007-09-19 Thread johnl
Fabian, Thanks for the help. I found that stopPropagation by itself didn't work, and neither did preventDefault, but if I called them both I got the desired result. I don't understand why this is, but I'm very happy that it works! Thanks again. David Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi John, > > you h

[qooxdoo-devel] Tab completion

2007-09-18 Thread johnl
I'm trying to add tab completion (shell style) to a textArea, but the problem I'm having is I can't get stop the focus from being moved from the textArea when tab is pressed. Here is the code I'm using: this._searchBox.addEventListener('keypress', this._onKeyPress, this) this._searchBox.addEvent

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] DatePicker issues

2007-08-31 Thread johnl
See this thread: http://www.nabble.com/Calendar-changes-tf4068585.html#a11582065 jdl Jim Hunter wrote: > My date picker is popping up fine like it always has, but now I am > getting 'cldr' as the string for the day of the week and for the month > name. This looks like a Locale issue, does anyo

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] remove row in gridLayout

2007-08-07 Thread johnl
Another option: For each widget in the row, set its display property to false. That should work. Tobias Koller (GERMO GmbH) wrote: > > Hi, > > This doesn’t work. If I set it to 0 I get an endless loop. > > If I set it to f.e. 5 the row is almost disappeared but the values are > still completely

[qooxdoo-devel] developing using svn trunk

2007-08-01 Thread johnl
I'm working on an application that I think would benefit from some of the new features being developed for qooxdoo. The application will be released to groups of users over a period of time, with the first being added in perhaps one to two months. Does it make sense to develop using the svn ver

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Trouble using embed.iframe, any other way?

2007-07-30 Thread johnl
Thanks. I replaced my server code with javascript to generate the HTML. Now I have a few other questions: 1) How would I call a qooxdoo object's member function from the generated html in the HtmlEmbed? 2) How can I scroll to a particular element in the HtmlEmbed text? Thanks again. David Fa

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] resizer height

2007-07-30 Thread johnl
_changeHeight: function(value) > { > var child = this.getChildren()[0]; > child && child.setHeight(value); > }, > > You need to do this: > > resizer.getChildren()[0].addEventListener('changeHeight', > function(){.}); > > > johnl-4 wr

[qooxdoo-devel] Trouble using embed.iframe, any other way?

2007-07-29 Thread johnl
Attached is an image of a module for a project I'm working on. This particular module is a 'shot' log. The fusion torus fires a 'shot' every few minutes, and for a given experiment, some number of people will be creating log entries. The top pane in the picture is where the user edits his or h

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] resizer height

2007-07-27 Thread johnl
ut an enhancement request into bugzilla. David. dperez wrote: > >From David to David, > > You can add an event listener to the changeHeight event of the child of the > resizer. > Hope this helps. > > > johnl-4 wrote: > >> I'm looking for a way to detect whe

[qooxdoo-devel] resizer height

2007-07-26 Thread johnl
I'm looking for a way to detect when the height of a resizer has been changed by a user. The 'changeHeight' even doesn't do it. Is this supported? David - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping throug

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] calculating hight - problem with vertical box layout

2007-07-23 Thread johnl
westor wrote: > Hi list, > I fill a label with a large html text. The label property "wrap" is set to > TRUE. > I add this label into one cell of a vertical box layout - height of box > layout is auto. > Below the label I want to add another control. So I added it to the vertical > box layout. But

[qooxdoo-devel] Paying for features

2007-07-16 Thread johnl
I'm working on a project for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and there is a feature we're interested in - specifically being able to put multiline text into a layout and have it work properly (preferably a TextArea). I talked to my boss today, and he said it would be possible to pay an out

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Calendar changes

2007-07-13 Thread johnl
That fixed my problem, thank you! Fabian Jakobs wrote: > johnl schrieb: > >> Fabian Jakobs wrote: >> >> >>> johnl schrieb: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Fabian, >>>> >>>> U

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Calendar changes

2007-07-13 Thread johnl
Fabian Jakobs wrote: > johnl schrieb: > >> Fabian, >> >> Unfortunately this doesn't solve the problem. Perhaps I need to manually >> delete some things? >> >> > Try to delete all files in framework/source/class/qx/locale/data/* >

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Calendar changes

2007-07-13 Thread johnl
Fabian, Unfortunately this doesn't solve the problem. Perhaps I need to manually delete some things? David Fabian Jakobs wrote: > Hi David, > >> After upgrading to qooxdoo 0.7.1 from 0.7, my calendar button widget >> looks pretty bad. I've attached an image. Does anyone know why this >> wo

[qooxdoo-devel] Multiline labels with auto height

2007-07-12 Thread johnl
Hi, I'm looking for a way to display multiline text in a label having a variable width and auto height. I know this has been asked about before, specifically: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-multiline-labels-tf3502819.html#a9782641 but the solution given there doesn't work any more. If any

[qooxdoo-devel] Calendar changes

2007-07-12 Thread johnl
After upgrading to qooxdoo 0.7.1 from 0.7, my calendar button widget looks pretty bad. I've attached an image. Does anyone know why this would be? David <>- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Several Newbie Questions

2007-07-10 Thread johnl
Chris, You shouldn't have to do anything else... I can't see anything wrong with your class, but that's an error I'm familiar with seeing when I have a mismatched paren or something. If you have firebug installed, you could put a break point in the constructor and see where it exits. David Ch

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Saving the dimensions of a resizer object

2007-07-10 Thread johnl
Does anyone else see this behavior as a bug? Should I file a bug report for this? Hugh Gibson wrote: >> I'm of the opinion that this behavior is not great: If someone >> creates a resizer and doesn't want to resize, they can set >> resizeableWest to false or whatever. If they want to set the he

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Several Newbie Questions

2007-07-10 Thread johnl
Christian, You'll have to run 'make' in the project directory after creating a class. David Christian Zyweck wrote: > Hi! > > I have been experimenting with qooxdoo for some time now and have > encountered a few problems which, so far, I haven't been able to work > out myself, so a little help

[qooxdoo-devel] Shortcut keys per widget

2007-07-06 Thread johnl
Hello. I have an application with a number of text fields, any of which could be open for editing at a given time. I'd like the user to be able to press 'ctrl-s' to save, but I can't figure out how to make this apply only to the active widget. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, David

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Using native windows

2007-06-30 Thread johnl
> > Jim > www.D4PHP.org <http://www.D4PHP.org> > www.D4PHP-Hosting.com <http://www.D4PHP-Hosting.com> > > > On 6/30/07, *johnl* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hello everyone. I have a question about native windows and ho

[qooxdoo-devel] Using native windows

2007-06-30 Thread johnl
Hello everyone. I have a question about native windows and how to interact with them. Here is what I'd like to do: In a qooxdoo application we have a number of modules, some of which have data that the user can edit. I'd like to have a button on the module that the user can click to bring up an

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Develop-Make Blank, Build-Make Works

2007-06-30 Thread johnl
I know I've seen that before, but I can't say what the cause was. Have you done an fgrep (find in files) search for the original namespace name to see if it is still in use anywhere? Jared Broad wrote: > Thank you for your reply David, > > I tested on IE also and IE occasionally brought up the e

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Develop-Make Blank, Build-Make Works

2007-06-30 Thread johnl
I have seen this happen on a Mac if the browser is unable to pop up the debug window. You could check to be sure the debug window is allowed to pop up... Other than that, I haven't had a problem like this. Perhaps you could try using firefox with the firebug extension to get some information ab

[qooxdoo-devel] Saving the dimensions of a resizer object

2007-06-29 Thread johnl
I'm trying to save the dimensions of a resizer object so when a user returns to the page his or her panes are the same size. It looks like boxHeight is the appropriate thing to save, but if I do a setHeight(savedBoxHeight) on the resizer, it no longer works correctly in the layout - I can resiz

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Saving the dimensions of a resizer object

2007-06-29 Thread johnl
alue); this.setWidth('auto') }, _changeHeight: function(value) { var child = this.getChildren()[0]; child && child.setHeight(value); this.setHeight('auto') }, Does anyone see any problems with this behavior or am I missing a reasonable way to do this in my code? David

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Displaying multiline text

2007-06-28 Thread johnl
Here is another question in the same vein: Can a textArea be sized to its contents automatically, or can I get the scroll bar position and set the size once it's instantiated (or can I do something similar with a different widget)? David johnl wrote: > I've noticed that the lab

[qooxdoo-devel] Displaying multiline text

2007-06-28 Thread johnl
I've noticed that the label widget has difficulty displaying multiline text. Does anyone know the easiest way to show a block of text with auto height? - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C -

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Keyboard shortcuts

2007-06-24 Thread johnl
mplement it. > > Tobias > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von johnl > Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Juni 2007 20:00 > An: qooxdoo Development > Betreff: [qooxdoo-devel] Keyboard shortcuts > > Hello. > > I'm wondering if

[qooxdoo-devel] Keyboard shortcuts

2007-06-22 Thread johnl
Hello. I'm wondering if it's possible to capture key combinations such as ctrl-s and ctrl-c in a textarea. If it is, what events should they be captured on: keydown, keypress, keyinput? If anyone out there has a working example, that'd be great. Thank you. David

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] General Question about qooxdoo's popularity

2007-06-20 Thread johnl
I found out about qooxdoo this year when I was asked to do a logbook/characteristics database for the MST Fusion experiment. We looked at all the major frameworks and also at doing a stand-alone application. For writing a true web application qooxdoo seemed to be clearly the best. After readin

[qooxdoo-devel] testing for successful JSON response

2007-06-19 Thread johnl
I'm sending requests for JSON data and would like to know the best way to test for a successful response. I'm sending this: req = new qx.io.remote.Request(url, qx.net.Http.METHOD_POST, qx.util.Mime.JSON) and on successful server response using: reqCompleted : function(e) { result = e.getC

[qooxdoo-devel] Combo box questions

2007-06-19 Thread johnl
I'm trying to figure out the best way to perform the following operations on a combo box: 1. Clearing the list 2. Programmatically moving forward and backward in the list 3. Looping through the list. If anyone has any examples, that's be great. Thanks. David --

[qooxdoo-devel] Using a validators with textFields

2007-06-18 Thread johnl
Does anyone have an example of how to use a validator with textfield? Specifically I'm interested in validating floating point numbers. Thanks, David - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C -

[qooxdoo-devel] Single clicking DateChooser

2007-06-15 Thread johnl
I've been observing some users interacting with a qooxdoo based interface, and one thing I noticed is that they seem to expect the date chooser to select a date with a single click. Is there a way to enable this behavior without changing the code in the framework? Thanks. David --

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Sending a message

2007-06-15 Thread johnl
gt; qx.event.message.Bus.dispatch(new > qx.event.message.Message("activation-message", true)) > }); > > I will write a tutorial on messagens soon. > > Christian > > > > johnl wrote: >> How do I send a message to an object? I have a DateChoos

[qooxdoo-devel] TextArea scrolling

2007-06-15 Thread johnl
I'm having a problem with the text area on Ubuntu - I can use the scrollwheel to scroll up but not down. This occurs in an application I'm writing and in the demo "Fields 1". I haven't experienced any other scrolling issues. David ---

[qooxdoo-devel] Sending a message

2007-06-14 Thread johnl
How do I send a message to an object? I have a DateChooserButton I want to activate when clicking on a field (for the convenience of a user). Thanks. David - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Expres

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] json problem

2007-06-14 Thread johnl
I found a solution: replacing qx.io.Json.stringify(json) with escape(qx.io.Json.stringify(json)). johnl wrote: > I'm sending date to a server via json using the following code: > > req = new qx.io.remote.Request(url, qx.net.Ht

[qooxdoo-devel] json problem

2007-06-14 Thread johnl
I'm sending date to a server via json using the following code: req = new qx.io.remote.Request(url, qx.net.Http.METHOD_POST, qx.util.Mime.JSON) var json = { experiment : this.experiment, year : date.getFullYear(), month : date.getMonth()