On 10/12/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] did say: > Mitel gurus, > > I'm working on nutting out a rough FormMagick doc/howto and had an idea. > > Seems to me that one of the primary weaknesses of FormMagick is it's > inability to easily make tables. The best approch seems to be to
FormMagick has many limitations. The main benefit is the localisation API, which I would encourage everyone to use so that your work can be easily translated by others. Beyond that, much of FormMagick could be reworked. If you'd like to contribute patches to it, we're happy to review them. > paint tables in the form using CGI objects. Do you guys think it > would go against the FM approch to create a object wrapper to the > HTML::Template package to generate tables? HTML::Template is a fairly > light weight package that is well suited for creating tables using the > <TMPL_LOOP> tag. What I'm thinking is that a person would simply > load up a data structure with table data then throw it at the > HTML::Template object wrapper. The object would then return the > appropriate HTML code. Historically, we've used the CGI module's methods to output tables. I see nothing wrong with your suggested approach, but I'm unclear as to how it would integrate with a FormMagick page description. Perhaps an example is in order. Cheers, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 613-592-2122 x2522 6000/6010/60* Development, Mitel Networks Corporation "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
