Panes?

Rob Rothwell wrote:

Thanks...I'll think about that.

So...if you just wanted to "get something working" for now and you wanted to break up your screen into different regions and not worry about them being resizeable, etc...  what would you do?

Plain simple tables. But as I said problem will be in updating other panes (cells in that case) when you for instance select something in first pane (like in smalltalk browser). Try with calling many onClickUpdate: , each for pane which needs to be updated on such a select. Each pane is therefore an ajaxified element added to each cell of the browser.

For example:

smalltalkBroswer

 e := WebElement new.
 e cell add: self classPane.
 e newCell add: self protocolPane.
 e newCell add: self methodPane.
 e newRow.
 e cell collSpan: 3; add: self editPane.
 ^e

classPane

 ^self panes at: #class ifAbsentPut:
  [| e l |
  e := WebElement new.
  ...
  l := some link to be clicked etc...
  l
    onClickUpdate: self protocolPane;
    onClickUpdate: self methodPAne;
    onClickUpdate: self editPane.
  e]

...

Well, try something like this, but note, these are just some ideas right from my head and probably won't work "out of the box".


Janko

Take care,

Rob

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Janko Mivšek <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

   Hi Rob,


   Rob Rothwell wrote:

       Can you create panes in Aida?


       I am trying to create a "browser" for queries against my object
       with a "Criteria" pane, a "Group" pane, a "Results" pane, and a
       "Detail" pane.  So...basically a typical Smalltalk code browser
       with different functionality for the panes.


   One possibility is to use IFRAMEs (see WebIFrame), where every such
   frame is like a separate window (with separate Url) inside your main
   window. We use IFrames in Scribo for attachments, for instance.

   Another possibility is to use usual table with ajaxified elements as
   panes in each cell.

   Problem in both cases is how to update other panes when something
   changes. Aida Ajax so far supports updating only one element at
   once. That is, you can change one pane at once. Maybe with some
   trick more panes can be updated even with current Aida? Otherwise we
   need to extend Ajax support to multi-element updating (inside a
   single Ajax call).

   But, hmm, more that one ajax call can be sent even now, you just
   send two onClickUpdate: ? A bit experimentation is therefore needed ...

   Just few thoughts...

   Janko


   --    Janko Mivšek
   AIDA/Web
   Smalltalk Web Application Server
   http://www.aidaweb.si

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