Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Carl, On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:09:42PM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: > All contributions will help! > Working on HTML-Widget-Dojo might be suitable, and of immediate value to > you. Sorry, I didn't mean to drop off the radar. To make a long story somewhat short I've spent the past few days ove

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Matt S Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-18 16:55]: > All the best introductory docs to anything I've ever seen were > written by newbies who wrote out the things they wished had > been documented when they started while the memories were still > fresh. Reminds me:

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Jonas Alves
On 18/08/06, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/08/06, Jonas Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18/08/06, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > If you don't want to manually download the dojo library, it needs > > > Catalyst::Plugin::Dojo which currently uses HTML::Doj

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Carl Franks
On 18/08/06, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: > > If you're able to help at all with developing these, it'd be most welcome. > > The first priority is probably rewriting Alien::Dojo, along the lines > > mentioned in the "Alien-

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Matt S Trout
Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Since I'm asking for such features I certainly should put my money where my > mouth is. I'm willing to help in any way I can. Unfortunately at my > current skill level I doubt I could be of much help. I'm very new to > Catalyst. I tinkered with perl years ago but not a g

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Carl, On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: > There's work in this direction already with HTML::Widget::Dojo. Cool. > Work has currently stalled, partly because dojo seemed to be going through > a lot of changes, and partly because it's slipped down my priority list. We

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Carl Franks
On 18/08/06, Jonas Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/08/06, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you don't want to manually download the dojo library, it needs > > Catalyst::Plugin::Dojo which currently uses HTML::Dojo, but will be > > changed to use Alien::Dojo once that's merg

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Jonas Alves
On 18/08/06, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/08/06, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That would certainly work. But, imagine if a form plugin took care of the > > dirty work for the developer. Let's pretend for a moment. Imagine, if you > > will, that someone integrat

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Carl Franks
On 18/08/06, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would certainly work. But, imagine if a form plugin took care of the > dirty work for the developer. Let's pretend for a moment. Imagine, if you > will, that someone integrated the FCKEditor with HTML::Widget. One might be > able to

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:35:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Krzy?aniak wrote: > This is not needed. You simply add textarea (in template, html::widget or > formbuilder) and include javascript, Using that same logic one could say that HTML:Widget isn't needed because one could create forms themselves in

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Pavlovic
Hi, Unfortantely I cannot disclose the code as it belongs to a propriatery application. But the idea is very simple and described below. It uses filesystem for image storage, and database to store image filesystem path and identifier. 1.) Generate new UUID my $ug = Data::UUID->new;

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Matt S Trout
Jonathan Rockway wrote: > I am writing a plugin to do this as we speak. Expect it to hit CPAN by > the end of the weekend. The API looks something like: > > my $image = $c->register_image('/path/to/the/image'); > > $image will have methods like $image->url that return a fully-qualified > URL th

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Jonathan Rockway
That sounds like what I'm planning. Is your code around somewhere (that you'd make available under the Perl license)? Alex Pavlovic wrote: > I use following > > Data::UUID ( so each image has unique identifier ) > GD ( interface to GD ) > Image::Resize ( nicer syntax ) > > Plugin sounds intrest

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Pavlovic
I use following Data::UUID ( so each image has unique identifier ) GD ( interface to GD ) Image::Resize ( nicer syntax ) Plugin sounds intresting. Cheers. On Thursday 17 August 2006 10:39, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > I am writing a plugin to do this as we speak. Expect it to hit CPAN by > the en

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Krzyżaniak
Bogdan Lucaciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 20:35 +0200, Krzysztof Krzyżaniak wrote: >> Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> [..] >> > Are there currently any form libraries that integrate a WYSIWYG style HTML >> > editor such as the FCKEditor? >> >> This is

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Bogdan Lucaciu
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 20:35 +0200, Krzysztof Krzyżaniak wrote: > Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [..] > > Are there currently any form libraries that integrate a WYSIWYG style HTML > > editor such as the FCKEditor? > > This is not needed. You simply add textarea (in template, htm

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Krzyżaniak
Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [..] > Are there currently any form libraries that integrate a WYSIWYG style HTML > editor such as the FCKEditor? This is not needed. You simply add textarea (in template, html::widget or formbuilder) and include javascript, it looks like:

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Jonathan Rockway
I am writing a plugin to do this as we speak. Expect it to hit CPAN by the end of the weekend. The API looks something like: my $image = $c->register_image('/path/to/the/image'); $image will have methods like $image->url that return a fully-qualified URL that your web server can statically serv

Re: [Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Roman
Almost all your questions are related to JavaScript: * WYSIWYG editors usually hook on top of using a class or ID * Field focusing is purely JS * Input masks are ONLY possible with JS * Autotab is also only possible with JS, just don't abuse it Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Fellow Catalyst Enthusiasts

[Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Catalyst Enthusiasts, The more I see of Catalyst the more I'm liking it. I just started taking it for a spin a week or so ago. After just finishing the HTML::Widget plugin portion of the Catalyst tutorial yesterday I saw the post announcing the FormBuilder plugin. Both look very promis