The main thrust of the UI, from a developers point of view, is to make creating the layout simple. but this I mean a WYSIWYG editor for widgets. As a intermediated step to this, I have used cloudgardens app for created Swing UI's. it created an xml output. I then use a transform to make it into widgets. One of the short falls of this approach is Cloud gardens is not aware of the entities so can not pull them up to paste them into the editor.
I see it going into the content component and we have a basic WYSIWYG engine this would allow all the Event and view handlers to be used. this is important enough to me to put some energy into it first at the design level(wiki), then in coding. the time spent, would more than be made up in the ease of editing the UI. ========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> David E Jones sent the following on 3/10/2010 11:19 PM: > If you could change anything about the user interface tier in OFBiz > (basically the ControlServlet, the various widgets (Screen, Form, Menu, > Tree), the separate webapps, actions in (or not in) groovy, etc), what would > you change? > > All comments are welcome. If there is another tool you'd like to see used > instead of the Screen Widget (for example), please describe what you like > about it (like "I like to orchestrate my web pages using Java classes" or "I > like having fewer/more/bigger/smaller files" or "I hate having to declare > every request and view" or "I wish the screens used included screens top-down > instead of the bottom-up decorator pattern") instead of just mentioning the > tool (like "let's use Struts!"). > > Why am I asking? This topic comes up every once in a while, and it's true > that many suggestions never get enough support to actually happen (or on > further research it is decided that the idea is not tenable), but > brainstorming about them to get ideas in the open is still a great thing. The > history of OFBiz is full of things like this where users and more casual > contributors had ideas and saw possibilities that others, even more involved > contributors, totally missed or never looked at that way. What I think would > be fun, and ultimately useful too, is to keep this mostly to brainstorming > and not do too much comparing of ideas. > > BTW, if you want to brainstorm about another tier (ie the Data or Logic > tiers) please use the other threads on those. If you'd like to discuss things > that aren't specific to a tier look for the "General" thread. > > -David > >
