Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Another basic question

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
to try and investigate further.. I have played OxInline a bit more.. moving the containing dom node works fine.. menu items will come up in the right place.. unless the page has scrolled. So it looks like the rendering does not take into account possible page scroll.. if that were added than at lea

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Another basic question

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
I have tried 2 things to try to provide a more "web page" like app: 1 - using QxInline, and overriding the body scroll style stuff with This almost worked, but menus and comboboxes in inline components that may move as a page is scrolled are problematic.. the drop down part on both will occur at

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Ok, now I seem to understand your position better. Thanks. Sebastian J. Russell Smyth schrieb: Sebastian, Thank you for taking the time to reply, and clarify. I do understand that Qooxdoo is not 100% feature complete, and if we do adopt it we would be more than willing to assist in thi

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
Sebastian, Thank you for taking the time to reply, and clarify. I do understand that Qooxdoo is not 100% feature complete, and if we do adopt it we would be more than willing to assist in this effort - the point being we have consisdered writing a similar tool ourselves, and feel if we can fi

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxSplitPaneLayouImpl

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Kent Olsson schrieb: Hej Sebastian! Hej (I like this, a bit IKEA style ;)) Kent, I am dealing with a problem with the layout mechanism of the QxSplitPane and maybe you could give some ideas or advices. So far I have let the QxSplitPaneLayoutImpl inherit from QxLayoutImpl. It seems to work s

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Kent Olsson schrieb: Dear Russel, I do agree on what you say and I have got the same response a few times the last few days, also from Sebastian. I am not happy with that either. I interpreted it as a mis-attitude and I was very sorry about that. So far I have looked at it mainly as a language-

[qooxdoo-devel] QxSplitPaneLayouImpl

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
Hej Sebastian! I am dealing with a problem with the layout mechanism of the QxSplitPane and maybe you could give some ideas or advices. So far I have let the QxSplitPaneLayoutImpl inherit from QxLayoutImpl. It seems to work so so right now. The problem is the bar in between the two components div

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Izaak Branderhorst
Sometimes a language barrier (i'm not talking code) can cause these kinds of misunderstandings. English can sound a bit blunt if it's not someone's first language, but if you strip down Sebastian's response it was fairly straight-forward. Izaak On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:36:45 -0500, J. Russe

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
Dear Russel, I do agree on what you say and I have got the same response a few times the last few days, also from Sebastian. I am not happy with that either. I interpreted it as a mis-attitude and I was very sorry about that. So far I have looked at it mainly as a language-barrier problem/mistake

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxInline? FAQ referrs to non-existent examples?

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
J. Russell Smyth schrieb: from the FAQ: "Is it possible to mix widgets with plain html? i.e. using menus and toolbars over an existing page? Yes, it is. Please have a look at the Examples which uses the QxInline object. qooxdoo has some dependecies on css and html doctype which need to be satis

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
J. Russell Smyth schrieb: Wow, I have to say that this is a suprisingly unfriendly respnonse. You asked me if we were using release or renderer, and this was my answer. I say suprisingly unfriendly because I have been following this list for quite some time and have not seen such a response befo

[qooxdoo-devel] Re: QxInline? FAQ referrs to non-existent examples?

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
I am sorry.. apparently there was something wrong with my text search.. I found the example. Apologies! Russell On 1/6/06, J. Russell Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from the FAQ: > > "Is it possible to mix widgets with plain html? i.e. using menus and > toolbars over an existing page? > > Yes

[qooxdoo-devel] QxInline? FAQ referrs to non-existent examples?

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
from the FAQ: "Is it possible to mix widgets with plain html? i.e. using menus and toolbars over an existing page? Yes, it is. Please have a look at the Examples which uses the QxInline object. qooxdoo has some dependecies on css and html doctype which need to be satisfied." I find no such examp

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread J. Russell Smyth
Wow, I have to say that this is a suprisingly unfriendly respnonse. You asked me if we were using release or renderer, and this was my answer. I say suprisingly unfriendly because I have been following this list for quite some time and have not seen such a response before. I fully understand it i

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Another basic question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
J. Russell Smyth schrieb: Another basic question, that is not readily apparent from the demos.. Is it possible to use Qooxdoo to create "web page" like apps, using web page layout symantics, etc? so that as you add more the page can scroll vertically? Do the layouts respect their contents mins,

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Tree Table?

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
J. Russell Smyth schrieb: Is there any work being done to create a TreeTable like component for Qooxdoo? This is a primary component of our interface and if it does not exist or is not in progress already for Qooxdoo, I may have to take a stab at implementing myself. With TreeTable you means so

[qooxdoo-devel] Just want to let you know...

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
...that I am working currently on the new appearance handling. Not that you wondering why the CVS stands so still the last days. (Ok I was at holiday some days, too). The general API looks good. So I started to update some widgets to use the new stuff. Here a short overview of the progress:

[qooxdoo-devel] Re: Qooxdoo-devel digest, Vol 1 #331 - 4 msgs

2006-01-06 Thread Jason J. Kahler
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Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Kent Olsson schrieb: THe question is how much a GUI like Qooxdoo is going to do. I guess it would be better to let the server do this, and provide an interface for AJAX here instead. At least for me it would be the choice. That was what I meant with "move the sort handling to the server". :) S

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
THe question is how much a GUI like Qooxdoo is going to do. I guess it would be better to let the server do this, and provide an interface for AJAX here instead. At least for me it would be the choice. Kent On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:46 +0100, Sebastian Werner wrote: > Kent Olsson schrieb: > > What

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
Well, I thought this list was open for discussion when it comes to these issues. ;) Kent On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 11:48 +0100, Sebastian Werner wrote: > sorry Kent, this was mainly an answer to J. Russell Smyth mail not to yours. > > Sebastian > > > Sebastian Werner schrieb: > > Kent Olsson schri

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
J. Russell Smyth schrieb: Renderer. this would have to be our target if we were to use Qooxdoo, for performance and advanced features, and we do not have the opportunity to do a major rewrite just after adopting a new tool. I am sorry. But this is not our problem. qooxdoo is currently at versio

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
sorry Kent, this was mainly an answer to J. Russell Smyth mail not to yours. Sebastian Sebastian Werner schrieb: Kent Olsson schrieb: What sort algorithm are we using here? Can it be optimized? The "sort" use the native javascript sort. If it is slow for 10k entries it is always slow. Gene

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Kent Olsson schrieb: What sort algorithm are we using here? Can it be optimized? The "sort" use the native javascript sort. If it is slow for 10k entries it is always slow. Generally IE performs bad on these actions - this is already well known and nothing need to be discussed again. You ca

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] bug? QxTextField's 'validator' property should be TYPEOF_FUNCTION

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: Yeah on second thought (sent that email a bit too quick :P) it does seem like a bit of a quick sketch and they should probably be implemented as TYPEOF_OBJECT to allow for more complexity. For example, a validator should have pairs of regexp -> appropriate error mess

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] suggestion: add method QxTextField.isComputedValid ()

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: The below is exactly the same as QxTextField.isValid () except it passes the 'computedValue' rather than the 'value' to the validator. I found this method useful for validating a form on every input event, allowing an action like the submit button being enabled only

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] bug: QxTextField constructor doesn't check validity of vValue

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: This results in the default value being null, when it should be '' (empty string). I noticed this because a createRegExpValidator () validator was choking on the null value. Changed behaviour in CVS. Hope this helps. Sebastian Izaak -

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] bug? QxTextField's 'validator' property should be TYPEOF_FUNCTION

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Fixed in CVS. Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: In QxTextField.js: // QxTextField.addProperty({ name : "validator", type : QxConst.TYPEOF_OBJECT }); // but QxTextField.createRegExpValidator () returns a function. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how these are supposed to be used. They do seem like a

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] bug? QxTextField's 'validator' property should be TYPEOF_FUNCTION

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: In QxTextField.js: // QxTextField.addProperty({ name : "validator", type : QxConst.TYPEOF_OBJECT }); // but QxTextField.createRegExpValidator () returns a function. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how these are supposed to be used. They do seem like a bit of a quick s

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] bug: QxWindow 'centered' property doesn't work with 'auto' width/height

2006-01-06 Thread Sebastian Werner
Izaak Branderhorst schrieb: say we have: // win1 = new QxWindow ('Centered window'); win1.set ( { width: 'auto', height: 'auto', centered: true } ); win1.add (new QxAtom ('blah blah')); d.add (win1); win1.open (); // The window will center itself but the dimensions will be something like 3x3,

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] QxListView question

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
What sort algorithm are we using here? Can it be optimized? Kent On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:52 -0500, J. Russell Smyth wrote: > well, I would say a 50% performance hit is problematic as well.. and > 11 sec to load 10k lines on a machine with the power you are > discussing.. still pretty bad. > > B

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Tree Table?

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
I guess it would be hard to implement a QxTree inside the QxListView. What I can see there would be some major issues. The reason is that QxListView has not been developed the modularized way yet, i.e. where it is possible to plug in a any class in any column. It is more static in its design. Maybe

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Tree Table?

2006-01-06 Thread Kent Olsson
Hej! As far as I know, no one is implementing it. The component would be a very good addition. Kent On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:54 -0500, J. Russell Smyth wrote: > Is there any work being done to create a TreeTable like component for > Qooxdoo? This is a primary component of our interface and if it