Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
* Kirk Israel: Q. a. Why isn't this stuff documented in more depth? b. And why don't people answer every stupid little question I have. A. a. Wicketstuff-Dojo is still a fairly young project with people who are currently more into coding it for more functionality than documenting. You're certainly welcome to contribute. b. These volunteers aren't interested in doing your work for you! And they're busy. And your questions are sometimes dumb. Hi Kirk, Your questions and answers about the Java components are valuable, feel free to improve the Wiki documentation for WicketStuff Dojo: http://wicketstuff.org/confluence/display/STUFFWIKI/WicketStuff+Dojo Why didn't we reply earlier to your message: because August is holidays for most of WicketStuff Dojo developers. And there is another reason: Vincent Demay who is the most active developer has not yet subscribed to the Apache mailing-list. So bear with us, and keep up with your feedback, it's appreciated. Note that like all other OSS (Open Source Software) developers, we have very limited time to work on those projects. Our main job is *not* about polishing WicketStuff Dojo, nor even working with Wicket most of the time. Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot aka John Banana Qwerty http://caraldi.com/jbq/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
I'm getting the feeling this list doesn't have a ton of patience for questions it considers dumb. (or related to a library rather than core wicket) So with the idea that I might have asked a few dumb things, and to show that I'm trying to resolve things on my own, I'm going to give my answers to the questions I do have: Q. Can I attach the same wicketstuff-dojo DojoMenu to multiple components? A. No. Although some Wicket behaviors can be attached to multiple compontents, DojoContextualMenuBehavior requires each element get its own DojoMenu. Q. How do I modify the color and spacing of the context menu? A. You'd need to override the generate*JS functions in a subclass of DojoMenu and DojoMenuItem to point to your own CSS class (probably mostly cut and pasted from the .css dug out of the Wicketstuff-Dojo source.) Q. How do you get line separators between menu items? A. You'd have to make up a new DojoMenuItemSeperator class, and figure out how to compose the the underlying javascript to support that. Q. How would you dynamically change the icon for a menu item? A. You'd either have to create an entirely new menu, getting the element to drop its old behavior and connect it with the new version or possibly extend DojoMenuItem so that it could reset the icon, but this would require reaching more into the mysterious javascript. Q. a. Why isn't this stuff documented in more depth? b. And why don't people answer every stupid little question I have. A. a. Wicketstuff-Dojo is still a fairly young project with people who are currently more into coding it for more functionality than documenting. You're certainly welcome to contribute. b. These volunteers aren't interested in doing your work for you! And they're busy. And your questions are sometimes dumb. All that said, I'm considering going back to the approach of making my own context menu from more low level components (actually a lot of the work on that was already done by another guy at my company, but we hoped to leverage something as cool and easy to integrate as the Wicketstuff-Dojo menu; but we have pretty stringent look-and-feel demands, and while the Dojo stuff looks good, it isn't especially easy to reconfigure...) Thanks for any improvements to my answers! Kirk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
I'm getting the feeling this list doesn't have a ton of patience for questions it considers dumb. I think it's more a matter of us being incredibly busy :) Eelco - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
On 8/8/07, Kirk Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting the feeling this list doesn't have a ton of patience for questions it considers dumb. (or related to a library rather than core wicket) So with the idea that I might have asked a few dumb things, and to show that I'm trying to resolve things on my own, I'm going to give my answers to the questions I do have: not the case. what you have to understand is that dojo stuff is a wicket-stuff project. created and maintained by developers that are not core developers. so it is really up to those developers to monitor this list and answer questions. -igor
Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
Q. a. Why isn't this stuff documented in more depth? b. And why don't people answer every stupid little question I have. A. a. Wicketstuff-Dojo is still a fairly young project with people who are currently more into coding it for more functionality than documenting. You're certainly welcome to contribute. b. These volunteers aren't interested in doing your work for you! And they're busy. And your questions are sometimes dumb. Note that wicket-stuff projects have a different status than the core projects. We have one team member (JBQ) working on that project, but the rest of us don't know much about it. As for your remark about documentation... tbh I agree. We're trying to keep the core projects well documented (though unfortunately there are some slips in there as well lately) but we don't monitor the wicket-stuff projects for such things. All that said, I'm considering going back to the approach of making my own context menu from more low level components (actually a lot of the work on that was already done by another guy at my company, but we hoped to leverage something as cool and easy to integrate as the Wicketstuff-Dojo menu; but we have pretty stringent look-and-feel demands, and while the Dojo stuff looks good, it isn't especially easy to reconfigure...) The good about that is that you'll have exactly what you need. Cheers, Eelco - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
On 8/8/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/07, Kirk Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not the case. what you have to understand is that dojo stuff is a wicket-stuff project. created and maintained by developers that are not core developers. so it is really up to those developers to monitor this list and answer questions. Ok. But most side projects (including Wicketstuff/Wicketstuff-Dojo) haven't forked their own mailing lists or discussion groups, true? Nothing leapt out after searching through the wiki pages. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wicketstuff-dojo questions and answers
no they havent. i am not saying that this isnt the place to ask questions, i am saying dont expect to receive the same quality of service as you receive when asking questions about the core projects. also not that not everyone on this list uses that wicket-stuff project, so probably most people know nothing about it and cant help you. -igor On 8/8/07, Kirk Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/07, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/8/07, Kirk Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not the case. what you have to understand is that dojo stuff is a wicket-stuff project. created and maintained by developers that are not core developers. so it is really up to those developers to monitor this list and answer questions. Ok. But most side projects (including Wicketstuff/Wicketstuff-Dojo) haven't forked their own mailing lists or discussion groups, true? Nothing leapt out after searching through the wiki pages. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
