Re: Rich UI for POS

[Walter Vaughan]

guo weizhan wrote:

> I see, thanks for explain!
>
> Good news,the dojo grid is coming
>
> http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/09/16/the-dojo-grid/

Okay, via a few links it lead me to http://www.activegrid.com/
I just sat through the 18 minute "Active Studio in Action", and all I can think
is "we really need a tool like this that would work with ofBiz".

--
Walter

[guo weizhan]

I do think so, as Ofbiz can integrat with dojo well, we can wait dojo grid
release in mid-to-late October and try to integrat this, I hope it can be
the smooth way.

2007/9/17, Walter Vaughan <[hidden email]>:

>
> guo weizhan wrote:
>
> > I see, thanks for explain!
> >
> > Good news,the dojo grid is coming
> >
> > http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2007/09/16/the-dojo-grid/
>
> Okay, via a few links it lead me to http://www.activegrid.com/
> I just sat through the 18 minute "Active Studio in Action", and all I can
> think
> is "we really need a tool like this that would work with ofBiz".
>
> --
> Walter
>
>
>
>
>

[guo weizhan]

XMLHttpRequest Vs. iFrames
http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/188390.htm


2007/9/16, Al Byers <[hidden email]>:

>
> Guo,
>
> I agree that having ScreenWidgets easily use ajax is a good goal and I
> don't
> see any problem with moving ahead on that front. But I think there is much
> more that can be done with the DHTML capabilities of Dojo, but I am not
> sure
> I know what they all are. I would like to ask for help from the community
> in
> suggesting ways in which a rich client could improve OFBiz. I will start a
> list.
>
> 1. Type ahead.
> 2. Show detail data upon rollover.
> 3. Popups that don't get hidden.
> 4. Rich text editor.
> 5. Tab, accordian and other containers.
> 6. Better drill down techniques using embedded containers and/or trees.
> 7.???
>
> These are the kind of things that I think need to be automated with a
> widget
> system.
>
> Also, here is a snippet of code that I used to upload a file via Dojo. It
> would not be needed to send standard form types, but I am not sure that it
> would hurt or not be a good idea to use this iframe method for all
> postings.
>
>             function sendImage(){
>                     var formId = "editimageForm";
>                     dojo.io.iframe.send({
>                             form: dojo.byId(formId),
>                             handleAs: "json",
>                             content: {
>                                     increment: callCount++,
>                                     fileFields: "uploadedFile"
>                             },
>                             load: function(response, ioArgs){
>                               var contentDataControl = dijit.byId
> ('contentdatadetail');
>                                contentDataControl.setContent("<img
> src='/content/control/ViewSimpleContent?dataResourceId=" +
> response.dataResourceId + "'/>");
>                               var dialogObj = dijit.byId
> ("editimageDialog");
>                                dialogObj.hide();
>
>                             },
>                             handle: function(response, ioArgs){
>                             }
>                     });
>              }
>
> Also, see the DojoJSONServiceEventHandler class that I wrote to work with
> form of Dojo ajax.
>
> -Al
>
> On 9/15/07, guo weizhan <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > That's greate, I would love to finish this with you, and what's your
> > progress now? I just figure out how to start with this, and try to
> extend
> > some screenWidget classes, like the HtmlFormRenderer, but it's just the
> > begining. My purpose it's to make the ScreenWidget can use the ajax
> > easily.It'll be greate if there is any design that we could implement
> > together.
> >
> >
> > 2007/9/16, Al Byers <[hidden email]>:
> > >
> > > Guo,
> > >
> > > I have been using Dojo for 3 weeks and am also impressed. If you are
> > > thinking about integrating it with screen widgets, then we should
> > > collaborate, as I was also thinking of doing the same thing. I work on
> > the
> > > original screen widget code so I have a pretty good feel on how things
> > > work.
> > >
> > > I think we will want to extend the ScreenWidget classes and the XML
> > > schema.
> > > We should look at more than just forms - the dojo layout dijits are
> also
> > > very useful. Some thought has to be given to how we return screens
> built
> > > with widgets using AJAX and JSON.
> > >
> > > I think I will be in better position to talk about the design in a few
> > > days,
> > > but it won't hurt to discuss it here now.
> > >
> > > -Al
> > >
> > > On 9/15/07, guo weizhan <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm doing this for comple days, it's perfect to use dojo with Ofbiz.
> > one
> > > > of
> > > > the screen capture url: http://www.open-agile.com/dojo.bmp
> > > >
> > > > I want to make all the widget form element use the dojo type, and
> have
> > > > ajax
> > > > function and look good:)
> > > >
> > > > But it just the begining now, it's  long term to finish.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2007/9/15, skip@theDevers <[hidden email]>:
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone have any comments on using Dojo with Ofbiz, especially the
> .9
> > > > > release?
> > > > >
> > > > > I see that the .9 release is like half the size of the .4 release
> > > > >
> > > > > Skip
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>