Re: WO Ajax
Re: WO Ajax
- Subject: Re: WO Ajax
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:45:17 -0400
On 24-Apr-06, at 3:22 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
Ruby and Ajax have come up a lot on the list, and I believe Anjo
mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but I just wanted to post about
it again because it's just that cool :) ... I finally got a chance
to try out the Ajax framework that Anjo brought into Project Wonder
(based on Jean-Francois Veillette's code). Kudos to both of them.
I was amazed at how easy-to-use things were. For people who may be
scared by Wonder, the Ajax frameworks are basically standalone
(they depend only on the ERJars framework, which just has some
shared jar files in it).
Grab Ajax.framework, ERJars.framework, and the AjaxExamples app
from the latest build on http://www.mdimension.com/~wonder, and run
the AjaxExamples Application to try it out.
As an example of some cool things you can do:
* AjaxAutoComplete: hand it an NSArray of possible values and a
"value", like a WOTextField, and it will "just work" for providing
an autocomplete popup on your textfield
* AjaxUpdateContainer: just wrap any block of your HTML/Components
in this, and you can refresh that block without a browser refresh
(i.e. it partially updates your page).
* AjaxSlider: a slider bar that binds to a value like a normal form
component
* AjaxDraggable/AjaxDroppable: wrap any block of HTML/Components in
this and you can drag and drop them on eachother. When you drop,
it will call your bound action and the object you bound to your
draggable will be wired up to the binding you assigned on the
droppable.
* AjaxSortableList: bind an NSArray to an AjaxSortableList and as
you drag around the items of a UL or OL, the array that backs it
will be reordered accordingly
When you first use them, they seem kind of magical (see: http://
www.crazyabouttv.com/Images/magician.jpg and imagine the role of
the magician played by Project Wonder). So go forth, keep up with
the Joneses, and make your WO apps fancy and sexy :)
Yes, ditto on the kudos, and Mike, thanks for the additional components!
I built a little color picker using the AjaxSlider that roundtrips
values to the server on a slider change for a demo at the last tacow
meeting and it was a lot of fun to do.
--
;david
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David LeBer
Codeferous Software
'co-defer-ous' adj. producing or containing code
site: http://www.codeferous.com
blog: http://david.codeferous.com
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