Re: 1 cset was pushed to themes/stable: Mainly the dd query screen, which also m...

In article <[email protected]>, Marcel van der Boom 
<[email protected]> wrote:
>mikespub wrote:
>
>> Well, that's exactly what the dd query function is supposed to provide
>> (next to prototyping queries for use in DD tags), yes :-)
>>
>Yes, but in the html edition is doesnt really work out. (for me at 
>least). I've probably re-arranged the templates for customers 10 times 
>or so, but they never used it ( they say they do, but logs dont lie ;-) )
>
>I decided to give it a shot in xul too and it turned out to quite a 
>bit more useful. Of course, my xhtml skills are lacking to do a good 
>job properly, xul just hides that ;-)
>Anyway, the end result surprised me a bit, in a positive way.
>
>Here's a screenie: http://xaraya.com/~marcel/ddquery.pdf
>
Looks pretty cool :-) I'm afraid my own xhtml skills are pretty limited,
but yes, that could definitely be improved to provide a more MS Query-
or MS Access- or XY Whatever-like interface in the future. I just did
an humble effort to provide the basic functionality :-)

BTW, the "rows to cache" is actually the "time to keep in cache", AKA
query caching for a certain period of time. I added that because some
of the queries on larger variable + flat tables can become quite slow,
so when you switch from query to display an item back to query etc.,
you may want those results to be cached.

>> Of course, it could use some TLC for improvement, and the meta table
>> (and multi-database) stuff needs to be better integrated, but that's the
>> direction I had in mind...
>The theme and marketing department should embrace dd a bit.
>If we polish the templates, add some attribute expression resolving to 
>it,  activate some flags to the tags here and there, make some tags 
>work in open/closed forms and separate the data-binding from the 
>rendering, make the bl compiler a bit more aware of what it's parsing 
>in context  and stir that soup for a couple of weeks, we're almost 
>halfway to xar 1.5 :-)
>
>marcel
Hehe - I'm not sure I understand half of what you mean there, but I like
what I hear :-)

Mike.