Thank you for your answers! And sorry for the radio silence. I took some of your advice and went and studied some javascript and came up with a small demo.
More on the workflow: I need updates coming to and going from server without page reloads. Not necessarily all of them, but it would make the using more smooth. The possible actions are: - User chooses different options from dropdown boxes: these don't change data, they just change what data is displayed on the map. Like changing a tab on web browser. But the data is shown on the same page and grid of course. - User chooses an action from several options and performs it on a cell, by clicking on it when an action is selected. The program checks, if it's possible, and executes it. This changes data and the changes have to be shown immediately. - The player ends a turn. This changes data and the effects have to be shown immediately. There are some more actions, but those three are the most important ones. There are not multiple players playing the game simultaneously. Every player has their own game session. They can however save and load, so that's why every action that changes data have to be saved to db. So, I made a very simple HTML/JS demo. It's just quickly thrown together, everything is mostly placeholder and I wouldn't be surprised if a few errors are mixed in as well. But it shows the main action and what should be going on. Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/isf38wh9x54pqfj/gm_demo.html?dl=0 The main problems still are: - The very question I have, how can I create an HTML table with an algorithm? The algorithm would be something like: function createMap(dataset) { createTable{ width=dataset.width; height=dataset.height; } fillTable{ for(cell in table){ cell.onclick = performAction(); cell.mined=false; } } } So a table is created according to the dimensions in dataset and every cell is given a function to execute, when onclick event happens. Also some values in database are assigned for the cell (in this example "mined"). Any idea how this should be done? - How do you get data to/from database? And without page reloads? This version only has global variables. - It seems that innerHTML always converts the content to a string before returning. Luckily JavaScript can convert strings back to numbers on the fly, so no problems in calculations, but on logical operations there are problems. Since "true" and "false are handled as strings, I had to compare them as such. The problem came up in function giveColor(). If the data we are showing is "mined", which is a boolean list, the coloring rule has to check the values as strings. Any "proper" solutions? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
