On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 21:06, Timothy Larson wrote: > Proposal to allow the declarative specification of dynamic widgets in Woody: > (Use case that is driving dynamic widgets: web-based form and report design gui) > > Bruno, if you have a chance could you comment on this before you are gone for the > week? > > Make the form definition dynamic: > > Rely on aggregation, etc. to ensure all widget definitions are in the same source. > Create a container <wd:widgets/> for reusable widget definitions. > Create <wd:include/> to reference the reusable widget containers. > Create a new discriminated "union" widget with methods: > setCase(id) to change the distriminant and corresponding widgets. > getCase() to return the current discriminant id. >
a first quick reaction (the rest will be for tomorrow, have to leave now): what exactly should be understood here with "dynamic"? AFAIU the wd:union is a sort of switch which allows to programatically enable a set of widgets. However, I thought in earlier mails you were also implying to dynamically add new widgets (possibly with dynamically created widget definitions) to form instances. Or does the wd:union solve all your use-cases? (will then comment on the rest later on). -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
