RE: When to use Thinlet/SwiXML

"Bharat Panchal" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.embedded.carlsbad-cubes
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you very much Kate.
Now I am sure that I am not going to use Thinlet.
But still I have one question in my mind that why people are using SwiXML
though we have to write modelling class seperately for table, tree.

Is it worth to use SwiXML for Client-Server application(that includes add,
edit, delete, list functionalities) having rich GUI?


Thanks again,
Bharat Panchal

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of masukomi
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:54 AM
To: List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products
Subject: Re: [Forum] When to use Thinlet/SwiXML


> Thinlet Questions:
> - Accroding to thinlet.dtd, you can not put button/checkbox in a table
> cell.
> So how to display a GUI that displays records as well as provide
> facility
> for editing or deleting it?

you make a button elsewhere then have it call a script that looks at
the selected item in your table and through some code you've developed
(usually some hash lookup with the text in the cells as the keys)
figures out what Java object that corresponds to. Then you do something
with it.

> - Can I write only one xml for list, add, edit, delete functionaly?

umm... can you rephrase the question?

>
> SwiXML Questions:
> - We have to write model for JTable and JTree ourselves. So what is the
> advantage of using table and tree in SwiXML?

you can put a button / checkbox in a table cell. ;)
Seriously thought. With thinlet you're limited to text in your tables.
With SwiXml you can put practically any Swing object in there.

> Again I am new to this technology, so please excuse me if I am wrong
> anywhere.
> Can you please answer above questions and suggest when to use Thinlet
> and
> SwiXML?

Thinlet for simple quick things that don't require embedding anything
more complex than text in a list or table and aren't going to need any
functionality not explicitly offered by thinlet.

SwiXml for everything else.  You want power? You want extensibility?
You want SwiXml.
You want quick and simple with limited GUI functionality? Thinlet.

 From your description I think you're going to want SwiXml.


-Kate Rhodes
Open source consultant & Java developer
http://www.masukomi.org


_______________________________________________
Forum mailing list
[email protected]
http://carlsbadcubes.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.