Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Hi, While it wouldn't be considered best practice, you could. There are several tags, like dropdownchoice, that write out pieces of HTML without creating sub elements first. Eelco On 5/3/06, Ashley Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy All, I am new to Wicket, just looking around for an appropriate Web framework to use on my next project. I would like to know if Wicket can (or will shortly be able to) generate HTML elements (as well as doing all the other things it can do). By this I mean something like the old Element Construction Set (ECS) or perhaps even Swinglets. I've seen some discussion of this on the mailing list archive (although it is hard to follow threads via the archive), but it was mainly relating to Wicket possibly auto-generating prototype HTML if a HTML file was not available. I also understand that Wicket usually works with a HTML file and some may suggest using a Wicket panel for each possible element I wish to construct. That may be a possible but it doesn't seem elegant. However, I can't see why Wicket couldn't generate HTML when required, for very dynamic parts of a Web page. Wicket seems to have classes corresponding to most (if not all) HTML elements already. Of course, most dynamic Web pages won't need this, they just want to slot some dynamic content in an already setup HTML template, but I can also see where full dynamic control of the tags and content could be useful. Sorry if I have misunderstood how Wicket works. Any comments, or suggestions, would be most appreciated. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Eelco Hillenius schrieb: While it wouldn't be considered best practice, you could. There are several tags, like dropdownchoice, that write out pieces of HTML without creating sub elements first. Instead of handling Strings yourself, it is perfectly possible to use ECS or any other lib (like the ones that come with Jetty) for this task. But I doubt that this integrates well with the rest of the wicket world. Using Panels to generate markup dynamically is quite powerful. I think that Wicket could handle this a bit more elegant, but it really works well enough for most cases. See this article for a very short introduction to using Panels for dynamic markup: http://www.wicket-wiki.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Create_dynamic_markup_hierarchies_using_panels There is a BeanEditor in wicket extensions that uses Panels to create the input elements for the bean properties dynamically. At least with 1.1.1, you can find an example in the example project under examples/compref/BeanEditPage.java Timo On 5/3/06, Ashley Aitken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy All, I am new to Wicket, just looking around for an appropriate Web framework to use on my next project. I would like to know if Wicket can (or will shortly be able to) generate HTML elements (as well as doing all the other things it can do). By this I mean something like the old Element Construction Set (ECS) or perhaps even Swinglets. I've seen some discussion of this on the mailing list archive (although it is hard to follow threads via the archive), but it was mainly relating to Wicket possibly auto-generating prototype HTML if a HTML file was not available. I also understand that Wicket usually works with a HTML file and some may suggest using a Wicket panel for each possible element I wish to construct. That may be a possible but it doesn't seem elegant. However, I can't see why Wicket couldn't generate HTML when required, for very dynamic parts of a Web page. Wicket seems to have classes corresponding to most (if not all) HTML elements already. Of course, most dynamic Web pages won't need this, they just want to slot some dynamic content in an already setup HTML template, but I can also see where full dynamic control of the tags and content could be useful. Sorry if I have misunderstood how Wicket works. Any comments, or suggestions, would be most appreciated. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
On 03/05/2006, at 5:42 PM, Timo Stamm wrote:Instead of handling Strings yourself, it is perfectly possible to use ECS or any other lib (like the ones that come with Jetty) for this task.Yes, that was my hope (or that Wicket classes could optionally generate the full HTML). But I am unsure how to inject the HTML into a Wicket page at a particular location. Would I just have something like a a SPAN or DIV tag with a wicket:id and then dynamically put the string generated from ECS or similar in there at run-time using a Label?But I doubt that this integrates well with the rest of the wicket world. Using Panels to generate markup dynamically is quite powerful. I think that Wicket could handle this a bit more elegant, but it really works well enough for most cases.See this article for a very short introduction to using Panels for dynamic markup:http://www.wicket-wiki.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Create_dynamic_markup_hierarchies_using_panelsYes thanks, I have seen that but it doesn't seem like it would scale to generate arbitrary HTML - having a component for every different HTML tag (pair) seems like overkill ;-)Cheers,Ashley.--Ashley AitkenPerth, Western Australiamrhatken at mac dot comSkype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!)
Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Ashley Aitken schrieb: On 03/05/2006, at 5:42 PM, Timo Stamm wrote: Instead of handling Strings yourself, it is perfectly possible to use ECS or any other lib (like the ones that come with Jetty) for this task. Yes, that was my hope (or that Wicket classes could optionally generate the full HTML). But I am unsure how to inject the HTML into a Wicket page at a particular location. Would I just have something like a a SPAN or DIV tag with a wicket:id and then dynamically put the string generated from ECS or similar in there at run-time using a Label? Exactly. But I doubt that this integrates well with the rest of the wicket world. Using Panels to generate markup dynamically is quite powerful. I think that Wicket could handle this a bit more elegant, but it really works well enough for most cases. See this article for a very short introduction to using Panels for dynamic markup: http://www.wicket-wiki.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Create_dynamic_markup_hierarchies_using_panels Yes thanks, I have seen that but it doesn't seem like it would scale to generate arbitrary HTML - having a component for every different HTML tag (pair) seems like overkill ;-) Yes :) Panels are useful to encapsulate common GUI elements with several lines of markup, but not for single tags. Timo --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Please see the template example as well Juergen On 5/3/06, Timo Stamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ashley Aitken schrieb: On 03/05/2006, at 5:42 PM, Timo Stamm wrote: Instead of handling Strings yourself, it is perfectly possible to use ECS or any other lib (like the ones that come with Jetty) for this task. Yes, that was my hope (or that Wicket classes could optionally generate the full HTML). But I am unsure how to inject the HTML into a Wicket page at a particular location. Would I just have something like a a SPAN or DIV tag with a wicket:id and then dynamically put the string generated from ECS or similar in there at run-time using a Label? Exactly. But I doubt that this integrates well with the rest of the wicket world. Using Panels to generate markup dynamically is quite powerful. I think that Wicket could handle this a bit more elegant, but it really works well enough for most cases. See this article for a very short introduction to using Panels for dynamic markup: http://www.wicket-wiki.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Create_dynamic_markup_hierarchies_using_panels Yes thanks, I have seen that but it doesn't seem like it would scale to generate arbitrary HTML - having a component for every different HTML tag (pair) seems like overkill ;-) Yes :) Panels are useful to encapsulate common GUI elements with several lines of markup, but not for single tags. Timo --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
Re: [Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Panels are useful to encapsulate common GUI elements with several linesof markup, but not for single tags. and dont forget about Fragments :)-Igor
[Wicket-user] Generating HTML with Wicket?
Howdy All,I am new to Wicket, just looking around for an appropriate Web framework to use on my next project. I would like to know if Wicket can (or will shortly be able to) generate HTML elements (as well as doing all the other things it can do). By this I mean something like the old Element Construction Set (ECS) or perhaps even Swinglets.I've seen some discussion of this on the mailing list archive (although it is hard to follow threads via the archive), but it was mainly relating to Wicket possibly auto-generating prototype HTML if a HTML file was not available. I also understand that Wicket usually works with a HTML file and some may suggest using a Wicket panel for each possible element I wish to construct. That may be a possible but it doesn't seem elegant.However, I can't see why Wicket couldn't generate HTML when required, for very dynamic parts of a Web page. Wicket seems to have classes corresponding to most (if not all) HTML elements already.Of course, most dynamic Web pages won't need this, they just want to slot some dynamic content in an already setup HTML template, but I can also see where full dynamic control of the tags and content could be useful. Sorry if I have misunderstood how Wicket works. Any comments, or suggestions, would be most appreciated. Cheers,Ashley.--Ashley AitkenPerth, Western Australiamrhatken at mac dot comSkype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!)
