[Zope-dev] More comfortable DTML editing ?

[Martijn Faassen]

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