Anthony Pfrunder wrote:
On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andreas Jung wrote:
Editing DTML in a textarea input is very annoying. Will there be a better solution in the future of Zope ?
Here part of a pipe dream I had recently:
This pipe dream already exists. Check out VisualZope (technology preview version 0.0.1) and see the webpage http://www.dansteinman.com/dynduo for details on how this was done.
Yes, various related ideas have been floating around. My 'formulator' currently-vaporware approach wouldn't use dtml tags, but field objects in a special formulator folder, and an XML description to layout the user interface. Most of the info, like field width for a field, or possible data you can enter, or javascript validation, server side validation would be in the objects, though, and not in the XML, which is where I think this differs from VisualZope. I'd probably use XMLWidgets in some as yet unspecified way. :) Eventually VisualZope, XMLWidgets and Formulator will all converge into something coherent, hopefully.
A new version will be out in a few weeks once the DOM patches filter through
Which DOM patches are this? Did you notify Amos? I'm curious about them myself, too, as I ran into some problems with XMLWidgets about which I've been in communication with Amos. So please enlighten me. :) Regards, Martijn