Re: Some questions about Spyce

On Tue, 16 May 2006 12:56:48 -0400, "Dustin &#160;" <[email protected]>
said:
> Are there any forums/IRC channels that I'm unaware of that offers a 
> community for Spyce users? Mailing lists can be effective, but for simple 
> questions (at least you'd probably think so:)) it would be nice to just
> ask 
> them somewhere where I don't feel bad about polluting my thoughts.

Well, a forum is just as much a permanent record as a mailing list.  And
since they same questions tend to come up more than once, I do like
having a searchable medium like that.  But I'd come hang out in #spyce
on freenode or whatever if you wanted to set one up. :)

> Right now, I'm wondering if there is a way I could create a type of 
> placeholder, and make it active/inactive when necessary, like in ASP .NET
> (I 
> don't use .NET, but I'm familiar with a little bit of it). I wanted to 
> display errors at the top of a page, which would depend on the active tag 
> values returned within the form below. I'm sure I could hack something
> up, 
> but I just wanted to ask to see if perhaps there's something related to 
> placeholders that can be activated.

No, not really.  I don't think the power of that sort of pseudo-widget
is worth the complexity it adds -- although I _would_ like to add
validation tags to Spyce eventually, so this specific use case would be
covered there.  You'll probably just have to add conditionals the hard
way until then.

> Great software package by the way. I have enjoyed Python from day one,
> but 
> having to write ugly CGI applications was not fun. Spyce definitely makes
> me 
> happy.

Glad to hear it!

-Jonathan
-- 
C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce.  --Scott McKay



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