BJ Are these proprietary? Seems a waste to re-invent the wheel when something really close to what you want may already exist.
Skip -----Original Message----- From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GUI editors for ftl First I agree with you. second I accomplish this buy having my own modules that I make my own screens. I have been thinking of asking to add Class field for each entry in a entity. But I have not given much thought to this process yet. then by use of a CSS you hide or relocated any field you want. However there is not "one way" a screen should done. so the implementations we now have are generic and suppose to be modified by the consultant, in there release to the client. [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following on 10/17/2007 3:14 PM: > Thanks to both BJ and Adrian for the input. The dynamically produced > screens are not suitable in my view. No eye has been given to layout, > usability, and context making the users live harder than it needs to be. A > prime example is the Payments screen in the Accounting module. Because this > is so generic, there are 14 fields where there needs to be 5 (or six if you > are dealing with foreign currencies) for the common payment tasks. > > That is why I want to replace these so I don't have to spend hours training > my customers' employees every time they hire a new one. In other words, > these dynamically generated screens are the problem, not the solution. > > Skip > > -----Original Message----- > From: BJ Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: GUI editors for ftl > > > Ftl's are tied to the bsh files in ofbiz.' > from the freemaker site > http://freemarker.org/editors.html > but more importantly most displays are dynamically produced from the > entities. > In otherwords the Field are not defined in the editor but produced when > the entity is read. > So the editor would have be entity aware and some form of CSS would have > to be used to give div classes to each field. > > there are some Ftls and some widgets the build on other ftls and widgets > to create complex pages. > > I am not sure there is any editor that will allow all that. > > there has been some talk in the content module, but nothing definite, > like above. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following on 10/17/2007 2:26 PM: >> I have Netbeans for Java and XUI as well as JBuilder for Java and >> Dreamweaver for HTML, etc. >> >> What do you guys use for new FTL devleopment? Is there a GUI editor to > make >> the screen layout easier? >> >> I am passionate about attractive and intuitive UIs and a GUI editor makes > it >> all easier. >> >> Any tools and tricks to make life easier? >> >> Skip >> >> >> > > >
