[web2py] Re: Probably very naive question from new user

2016-02-01 Thread cl
黄祥 wrote: > > perhaps you can learn a lot from web2py appliances or web2py slices : > http://www.web2py.com/appliances > http://www.web2pyslices.com > Yes, thank you, appliances looks very useful. I think it was actually something on web2pyslices.com that I found that lead me to investigate web

[web2py] Re: Probably very naive question from new user

2016-01-31 Thread cl
Anthony wrote: > [-- multipart/alternative, encoding 7bit, 161 lines --] > > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 77 lines --] > > > > > > > > The first (minor) problem is that it says something like "In > > controller: simple_examples.py" above each example. On my system > > s

[web2py] Re: Probably very naive question from new user

2016-01-31 Thread cl
Anthony wrote: > [-- multipart/alternative, encoding 7bit, 48 lines --] > > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: UTF-8, 23 lines --] > > > > > ... and the link from the Simple Examples which says "You can find > > more examples of the web2py Database Abstraction Layer here" doesn't >

[web2py] Re: Probably very naive question from new user

2016-01-31 Thread cl
c...@isbd.net wrote: > Then (though this is maybe trying to run before I can walk as I can't > really understand the simplest examples) when you get down to the > database examples (which is what I'm particularly interested in) there > are various oddities:- > > The 'try it here' link suddenly

[web2py] Probably very naive question from new user

2016-01-31 Thread cl
I have just installed web2py on an xubuntu system (latest stable download rather then from the Ubuntu repository). That's all OK and I can run web2py.py and, after entering a password, the 'Welcome' page appears in my browser. I'm fairly experienced with the LAMP admin side of things so that was

[web2py] Re: Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for web2py?

2016-01-31 Thread cl
Anthony wrote: > > > > Is there any way that web2py can at least *tell* me that there's a new > > version available? > > > > Not automatically, though the home page of the admin app indicates when an > update is available. > Ah, good, I'm fairly happy with that. It's the same sort of thing t

[web2py] Re: Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for web2py?

2016-01-30 Thread cl
c...@isbd.net wrote: > Anthony wrote: > > > > > > I run xubuntu on my home server, the current 15.10 version. > > > > > > The web2py available from the main Ubuntu repository is version 1.99 > > > which is rather out of date. > > > > > > I know I *could* install web2py by downloading the source

[web2py] Re: Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for web2py?

2016-01-30 Thread cl
Anthony wrote: > > > > I run xubuntu on my home server, the current 15.10 version. > > > > The web2py available from the main Ubuntu repository is version 1.99 > > which is rather out of date. > > > > I know I *could* install web2py by downloading the source tarball but > > then I'd have to re

[web2py] Is there a Debian/Ubuntu PPA for web2py?

2016-01-30 Thread cl
I run xubuntu on my home server, the current 15.10 version. The web2py available from the main Ubuntu repository is version 1.99 which is rather out of date. I know I *could* install web2py by downloading the source tarball but then I'd have to remember to update it all the time. Is there not a

[web2py] Re: Is it easy to create a grid data entry form using web2py?

2014-06-03 Thread cl
LaDarrius Stewart wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 52 lines --] > > Like this? > http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1928/basic-inline-editing-in-sqlformgrid-no-plugin-no-javascript > > Yes, that's pretty much what I'm after. Just a couple of questions:-

[web2py] Is it easy to create a grid data entry form using web2py?

2014-06-03 Thread cl
This may be trying to run before I can walk but never mind! :-) Is it easy to create a grid type table editing form in web2py? I just want an easy way to edit an existing table, edit existing fields and add new rows. It's just simple data, text and numeric fields in a sqlite3 database. I want