I would be very instated in a pagination-less grid. Something like google reader where when you scroll it automatically updates with the new data for seamless and infinite scrolling. Apple store does the same. Pagination is so 1990s.
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Barry Books <trs...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to implement a new site using Twitter Bootstrap so I've been > working on a Tapestry module to support Bootstrap. The module will be > hosted here https://github.com/trsvax/tapestry-bootstrap and will be > licensed Apache2. > > I've been thinking about how to implement a MediaGrid that uses the > pagination provided by Bootstrap. In doing so I've tried to solve some > of the problems I've had with the Tapestry Grid component. > Specifically that would be use of an event to move from page to page > and the difficulty of controlling the pieces that make up the grid. So > I've come up with a design that uses Environmental and Mixins to build > the grid. > > In summary the individual pieces that make up the grid get their > parameters from the environment like this > > @Property > @Environmental > private PaginationEnvironment values; > > @Parameter(value="values.currentPage",required=true) > private Integer currentPage; > > There is a mixin that contains all the controlling logic and pushes > the values into the environment so you end up with a template like > this > > <t:any t:mixins="tb/pager" source="items"> > <t:tb.pagination/> > <t:tb.mediagrid row="item"> > <a href="#123"> > <img class="thumbnail" src="${url}"/> > <h3>${item.mediaTitle}</h3><button class="btn">+</button> > </a> > </t:tb.mediagrid> > <t:tb.pagination/> > </t:any> > > I've written a longer description here http://trsvax.com/blog > > One question would Metadata be a better way to solve this? I've never > used that feature before. Secondly does this seem like a good > approach? And finally are there any pitfalls I have not thought of? > > Thanks > Barry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
