As a turbine developer I have yearned for something to ease development
further (Turbine already eases development tremendously..) AND to make
everything look nice and pretty. ECS is alright and it lets me generate
dynamic tables and HTML and all that good stuff...But I feel that is not
enough. After seeing the link to Hammock (www.oop.com) it sparked some
ideas. Please keep in mind two things about myself while you read this
:) 1 - I have not used WebMacro yet, that would probably solve lots of
the complexitys of javascript and servlets.... 2 - I do not know
javascript very well, or it's capabilities. Anyway, here are some
scenarios...
1) I have a drop down list. The has several options (ie: contacts)
listed from about 200-300. These contacts (or options if we stick to
the abstract) are their most recently used/most frequently used ones.
Then there will also be an option in the list for Search. If the user
clicks on search it should open up a new 400x400 window with a search
form. Then the contact is passed back to original form and set. (is it
possible to add an option to a drop down list dynamically? Otherwise it
could be set in a hidden field) This same scenario could be played out
with an Input box and search button also. Now how would one do this in
a servlet?
combo = new ComboBox(Array of options);
action = new OpenAction(window);
action.closeAction(combo.addOption(Search Results));
Now this is truly horrible above. For some reason I can't flesh my idea
out, but I 've only been thinking about this for an hour....I need some
way to have the set the links for the second screen (the search results)
so that it will exit and return the value to original screen. There are
many problems I'm sure....
2) Form Validator: When a user clicks submit this checks to verify that
all the fields are filled. There could be a FormValidator utility class
and you could do:
FormValidator.addCheck(InputBox1);
FormValidator.addCheck(InputBox2);
FormValidator.addCheck(SelectBox, Check that it isn't option #1);
FormValidator.finalAction(goto page blah);
Submit.onClick(FormValidator.Execute);
This could be very useful. I have at least 20-30 places that this could
be used.
3) Form Tabulator: When you have a spreadsheet of input fields it is
nice to have Javascript automatically add them up for you....
FormTab.add(field1, field2, MULTIPLY, dest);
each input would be set to FormTab.execute() after it lost focus or
something....
SOOOO.....This whole system would need
A dynamic JavaScript Generator
A new windowing framework (One that is swing-like)
A general way to do all the things I have listed above...
Time to develop :)
Thanks for your time. I apologize if this is a waste of your time, but
I would greatly like to hear Input on how other people resolve these
issues and what the best/ideal methods are.
Dan Diephouse
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