Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Jim Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And as for the new config.json file as compared to the older config, I don't > like it (yet). There is a nice document that tells what all the section are > but really doesn't tell you how to use this new config file to your

[qooxdoo-devel] 0.7->0.8 issue: when not everything is a container

2008-10-08 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Experts, In 0.7 most widgets were also containers. So I could for example add a checkbox to the tab of a tabview widget to enable/disable the tab. [tab1 x][tab2 x][tab3 x]__ | | |

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Makefile Migration from 0.7 to 0.8 questions and suggestions

2008-10-08 Thread MootCycle
I figured this issue out myself by looking at the example.json, application.json, and the base.json files in the SDK. In case anyone else has the same issue I did, the way I ended up solving this was to define my own job with the appropriate settings in the JSON file and then to call the build sou

[qooxdoo-devel] Tab key to edit table's next row cell value

2008-10-08 Thread Kanugula
Hi, qx 0.7.3 IE 6 I have a requirement where the user presses the tab key to edit Item price on a Table. He does it on each row. He doesn't like to use the mouse to dblclick the cell, as he edits almost 1000 such rows continuosly. There is only one such editable column. I just tried the followi

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread Jim Hunter
I have to admit that I didn't get the legacy route to work straight off either and went to manually re-writing the classes after it converted them to legacy classes. I needed to re-write most of my classes anyway because they are heavily based on layouts and that is totally changed in .8. So I simp

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] qooXdoo future : what about offline ?

2008-10-08 Thread Insane Kangaroo
Not to sound negative but this has been done for years already. 1) package up a backend for your platform. Django + Nginx 2) create an installer 3) when user clicks on link, launch httpd(or run as service) and start firefox. It's brain dead simple, unless the developer is a Microsoftie who is on

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] An Inline *Toolbox* window.

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Banford
Fabian Jakobs wrote: Hi Chris, (somehow managed to send this post directly to Andreas, when I meant it for the whole list! Trying again) Hi Andreas, nice demo. ;-) As there are some issues with your inline app (IE6 and Safari?), could you open bug reports with a stripped-down versio

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] HtmlArea for 0.8 still not usable

2008-10-08 Thread John Spackman
I realise Alexander is on holiday right now so I'm leaving this as a note for when he returns as much as anything. I'd like to add my vote to this - a rich text editor is important and we've abandoned the FCKeditor integration because it's too slow. Petr - have you tried the latest SVN version of

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] An Inline *Toolbox* window.

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Hi Chris, > (somehow managed to send this post directly to Andreas, when I meant > it for the whole list! Trying again) > > > Hi Andreas, >> nice demo. ;-) >> >> As there are some issues with your inline app (IE6 and Safari?), could >> you open bug reports with a stripped-down version of your code

[qooxdoo-devel] igoogle gadget example

2008-10-08 Thread westor
I'd like to inspire you to use qooxdoo to write gadgets for igoogle and other environments. I wrote a little gadget, displaying actual events, like concerts, fairs and others from my project at http://event-4all.org/ http://event-4all.org/ - you can double click an entry and if it's an event fro

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gaetan de Menten wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Here is my experience with migrating my code to 0.8. It was quite a >> painful experience for me... >> >> In the hope you can make it a more pleasant experience for others, >> here are my

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Horst
It didn't work for me too. So I went the same route. Manually moving legacy staff to 0.8. Ian Horst thron7 wrote: > > Gaetan de Menten wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Here is my experience with migrating my code to 0.8. It was quite a >> painful experience for me... >> >> In the hope you can make it a

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Adjusting namespace and location of Source/Build files

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Banford
Hi Thomas, Happy to add a new bug -- > Eh, by the way, could you open up a bug for it, meaning adding wiki docs > ...?! Just paste your text in. > -- #1461 (looking forward to fixing some of the little critters someday... :-) ) > thanks for your feedback. We'll see what we can come up w

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Gaetan de Menten wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is my experience with migrating my code to 0.8. It was quite a > painful experience for me... > > In the hope you can make it a more pleasant experience for others, > here are my comments about the migration itself. I also had many > issues in 0.8 which

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Path to Qx lib in 0.8 (config.json & generate.py issue)

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Gaetan de Menten wrote: > Here is one regression in 0.8: moving the qooxdoo lib around is a pain: > > In 0.7.x you only had to change the path to where Qooxdoo is installed > in one place. Now you have to change it in 3 places: twice in > config.json and one in generate.py, which is especially ug

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Adjusting namespace and location of Source/Build files

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Eh, by the way, could you open up a bug for it, meaning adding wiki docs ...?! Just paste your text in. Thanks, Thomas Chris Banford wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Really an excellent email this one -- I'm sure that this belongs in > the wiki docs somewhere where new users would read it. > > I've figu

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Adjusting namespace and location of Source/Build files

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Chris, thanks for your feedback. We'll see what we can come up with. I think the biggest hurdle is the gap between the 'gui' template's config.json (nearly empty) and one of the templates like 'migration' or 'with-contrib' that actually make slight changes to jobs, as you suggested. We are wor

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Ecker
Hi Gaetan! > > Great. As a quick workaround, to get your code going, you could add the > > following compiler hints to your Application.js: > > > > /* > > #require(qx.locale.Manager) > > #require(qx.locale.Date) > > */ > > > > This is of course awful, since you are fixing missing dependencies for

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Ecker
Hi Gaetan! > I *was* speaking about inter-theme inheritance, which doesn't seem to > be implemented (or at least used) for decorations, while it *is* > implemented and used for appearances. Yes, this should read inter-appearance inheritance. When talking about appearances, theme is often used as

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Andreas Ecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > There is no inheritance of individual decorations in a theme. We >> > just did not see the need for it yet and it is not on our roadmap. >> > Personally I am reluctant to add just another level of complexity >> > to the

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Ecker
Hi Hugh! > > There is no inheritance of individual decorations in a theme. We > > just did not see the need for it yet and it is not on our roadmap. > > Personally I am reluctant to add just another level of complexity > > to the theming system. I would rather live with some repetition in > >

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
I have updated the bug at http://bugzilla.qooxdoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455 , and also added an entry at the Anti-Pattern wiki page http://qooxdoo.org/documentation/0.8/antipatterns#abundandly_requiring_other_classes . This section talks in general about requiring classes in your code. Essenti

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] [0.8] Context menu

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Horst
I made a spike solution for alternative action for contextmenu. Look at the attachment. I don't want keyboard to be involved. On mouse left click, it shows contextmenu icon for short time (200ms seems fine for me), then disappears. When you move mouse over, contextmenu appears. Any comments, s

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] [0.8] Context menu

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Horst
I made a spike solution for alternative action for contextmenu. Look at the attachment. I don't want keyboard to be involved. On mouse left click, it shows contextmenu icon for short time (200ms seems fine for me), then disappears. When you move mouse over, contextmenu appears. Any comments, s

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Hugh Gibson
> > I see there is a lot of repetition in decorations. For example, > the > > "input-focused" and "input-disabled" decorations only differ from > > the > > "input" decoration for a few keys each. It would certainly make > > decorations declarations shorter to have some kind of inheritance > > sys

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD - Novlog
It is not Sourceforge who blocked the file but you received an automatic reply from the mail server of someone at Fujitsu Siemens that blocked the file. On 8 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Gaetan de Menten wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:21 AM, thron7 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> this is just a

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] An Inline *Toolbox* window.

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Banford
(somehow managed to send this post directly to Andreas, when I meant it for the whole list! Trying again) Hi Andreas, nice demo. ;-) As there are some issues with your inline app (IE6 and Safari?), could you open bug reports with a stripped-down version of your code as a sample? After playi

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Matthew Gregory
Although this isn't implemented there is a way to accomplish it if you really needed to. Before your class do something like: var my_input = { // style info here }; then later: "input" : input, "input-focused" : qx.lang.Object.mergeWith( { // focused propertied here }, my_input), "input-d

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaetan de Menten wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:21 AM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> this is just a quick reply to confirm that the behaviour has indeed >>> changed between 0.7 and 0.8 - and not intentionally. But the

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Path to Qx lib in 0.8 (config.json & generate.py issue)

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Fabian Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaetan de Menten schrieb: >> Here is one regression in 0.8: moving the qooxdoo lib around is a pain: >> >> In 0.7.x you only had to change the path to where Qooxdoo is installed >> in one place. Now you have to change it in

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Gaetan de Menten wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:21 AM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> this is just a quick reply to confirm that the behaviour has indeed >> changed between 0.7 and 0.8 - and not intentionally. But there are some >> strange phenomena involved so we need to look int

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] How to get the currently focused widget?

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Fabian Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gaetan de Menten schrieb: >> I couldn't find a way to get to the currently focused widget in 0.8. >> Anyone knows the way to do it? > These method is missing in 0.8. I just added them to trunk. If you have > trunk you can

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] 0.8 migration report

2008-10-08 Thread Helder Magalhães
Gaetan de Menten wrote: > > * I had to add #asset hints to my code, while it previously worked > without. > > * I had to add these lines (copied from the skeleton) to my > Application.js, to have debugging output. Couldn't find this mentioned > anywhere, and the migration script could have adde

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Custom 0.8 theme "not available"?

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Hi, it might be that you are missing the qooxdoo setting for qx.theme. Are you including the application.json in your config? And are you building on its jobs? If so, your jobs would inherit the "settings" key. Try copying over the common/settings key from base.json and see what it does. Alex

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] An Inline *Toolbox* window.

2008-10-08 Thread Chris Banford
(somehow managed to send this post directly to Andreas, when I meant it for the whole list! Trying again) Hi Andreas, nice demo. ;-) As there are some issues with your inline app (IE6 and Safari?), could you open bug reports with a stripped-down version of your code as a sample? After playi

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Path to Qx lib in 0.8 (config.json & generate.py issue)

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Gaetan de Menten schrieb: > Here is one regression in 0.8: moving the qooxdoo lib around is a pain: > > In 0.7.x you only had to change the path to where Qooxdoo is installed > in one place. Now you have to change it in 3 places: twice in > config.json and one in generate.py, which is especially ug

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration: repeat-x and 1px wide images

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Gaetan de Menten schrieb: > I noticed that (among others): > * decoration/form/input.png > * decoration/form/input-focused.png > are larger than 1pixel but are just the same vertical gradient across > the whole width, and their decoration use a "repeat-x" property. Is > there a reason for those ima

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Decoration inheritance

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Gaetan de Menten schrieb: > Hi again, > > I see there is a lot of repetition in decorations. For example, the > "input-focused" and "input-disabled" decorations only differ from the > "input" decoration for a few keys each. It would certainly make > decorations declarations shorter to have some kin

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] How to get the currently focused widget?

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
Gaetan de Menten schrieb: > When saving a form, I need to make sure my local datastore is updated > with the on-screen value of the fields of the form. This happens > automatically when the user saves the form through the "save" button > on the toolbar, since the current field loose focus. But if t

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Cache not invalidated/emptied automatically on 0.8 to trunk upgrade

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you would have had to clear the cache anyway, even if you would be using > just the trunk all the time, since I made a change to some cache object > format that made existing trunk caches invalid. (We previously had an > automatic

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:21 AM, thron7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is just a quick reply to confirm that the behaviour has indeed > changed between 0.7 and 0.8 - and not intentionally. But there are some > strange phenomena involved so we need to look into it further. If you > could open a b

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Gaetan de Menten
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD - Novlog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it OK not to have parameter in your main function ? Yes, this is a stripped down version of the app generated by create-application, so I hope it's correct. Besides in JS, a function can be called with l

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD - Novlog
Hi, Is it OK not to have parameter in your main function ? That parameter nammed arguments look like used but not passed. Also, I have a question (I still never used static with qooXdoo) what is the meaning of this.self(arguments) ? Why passing argument ? Hope this will help ... On 7 Oct 2008

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] Fwd: Class instances in statics not supported in 0.8?

2008-10-08 Thread thron7
Hi Gaetan, this is just a quick reply to confirm that the behaviour has indeed changed between 0.7 and 0.8 - and not intentionally. But there are some strange phenomena involved so we need to look into it further. If you could open a bug for it, adding your Application.js, that would be awesome

Re: [qooxdoo-devel] HBox layout question

2008-10-08 Thread Fabian Jakobs
robust schrieb: > Hi, > > i am a newbie in qooxdoo...I am trying to add two widgets to the container > which has the HBox layout. I want to set the width of the each widget > manually. How can I do this? > > Thanks, > Robust > Just use "setWidth" on each child widget. This sets the width manuall