[Zope3-dev] Page Designs merged into ZopeTop

[Lynn Ranen]

This sounds interesting, but I'm not a "zope" professional, so could you
please help me out here.

[1]  What is "ZopeTop"?  Do I need it? or can I use your product without it?

[2]  Where is the example code that shows how to use this thing?  Or, where
are the installation instructions?  a README? Or (worse-case) a Wiki?

thanks  -lynn



> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope3-dev-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope3-dev-admin@zope.org]On
> Behalf Of Shane Hathaway
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:11 AM
> To: zope3-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope3-dev] Page Designs merged into ZopeTop
>
>
> Yesterday I integrated the latest work on Page Designs into ZopeTop!
>
> If you have Mozilla or a recent Internet Explorer, ZopeTop now lets you
> move the boxes in the left and right columns by dragging them to the
> separators between the boxes.  ZopeTop also lets you right-click on
> boxes to add or remove boxes, and you can select and drag several boxes
> at once by shift-clicking.
>
> It doesn't retain the box positions between requests yet since that will
> require the "user preferences" infrastructure in Zope 3, and the design
> isn't beautiful (having columns on both the left and right could be too
> heavy), but at least it illustrates the kind of modularity we should
> plan to have in the Zope 3 UI.  The Zope 3 UI is targeted for a specific
> audience, but with modularity it can be easily re-targeted for many more
> audiences.  And it can even be customized for specific tasks.
>
> Note also that a UI like this can be made to work in older browsers.
> Users of older browsers would see the boxes but wouldn't be able to move
> them without visiting the preferences screen.  This is perfectly
> acceptable.
>
> My second objective in doing this is to release "pdlib.js" publically.
> "pdlib.js", which evolved out of the Page Designs project, is a
> Javascript library that lets you implement custom context menus,
> multiple object selection, and drag and drop on DOM 2 compliant
> browsers.  It's currently only 500 lines (many of which are comments).
> I'd like people to try it out by playing with ZopeTop, give feedback,
> and integrate it into their own projects (hopefully without changing
> pdlib.js itself).
>
> I started writing documentation on the library, but it's hard to know
> what to write until someone else has used the library.  I need some
> guinea pigs. :-)  This should be of special interest to the formulator
> group: imagine designing forms by dragging widgets around, without ever
> leaving your browser.  Oh boy, that would be SPIFFY!  The gnarly
> Javascript you'd need is ready to use.
>
> So check it out and tell us what you think.
>
> Shane
>
>
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