Re: First rump version of bibliograph

On Monday 11 August 2003 02:41, Christian Boulanger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> after many hours of confusion and desparation (mainly concerning
> server-side programming), I finally managed to put up the first version of
> the new Bibliograph out on the net. You can see it at
>
> http://www.panya.de/bibliograph-new/

I'm having some problems seeing it since the following line is kind of 
problematic in your nwWrapper.js:

var NWrootURL = "http://localhost/lib/netWindows/";

= )

> The GUI is of course only a demonstration and for the most part
> inoperational. But the tree works, and you can click on the branches to
> perform some data-retrieval action.
>
> Problems:
>
> - The tree is ugly. Two-line branch names break the connection, 

That's a bug we should fix. That should not be broken.

> there is no icons for individual branches, 

Sounds like we need to provide a way of setting your own icon location for a 
level or item or type. This implies some inline ctor improvements as well.

> and why does the main branch has to be connected with the top?

Cause I was dumb? ;)

> - theming does not work, because I could not adapt the code to the CVS
> version. So at the moment, everything is transpararent. Is there a manual
> fix for the moment?

What's your testing browser? There should be a default theme that "takes" 
regardless of external theme which is scheduled to load. You might want to 
test on both IE and Moz, as I've been seeing some background color 
strangeness on IE of late. The property gets set, but it doesn't take. It's 
very frustrating for me.

> If you have a minute, why don't you look at the sourcecode of the page to
> tell me what I have to change in order to run this thing with the CVS
> version.
>
> Questions:
>
> - How can I automatically close the alert window once all of the content
> has been loaded? Asked differently: is there a convenient method to display
> a "please wait while loading" pop-up which disappears when the load is
> finished?

Not yet. Do you need a progress indicator in the alert widow? or just an alert 
box that can be removed at some future point in time?

My suggestion for removal of the alert box is to __sig__.connectByName() the 
function that gets called to indicate that loading is complete and the alert 
box widgets remove() method.

> - I need a tutorial how to submit forms with netWindows...

I keep promising to do something like this, and then not doing it.

> So much for now...

Thanks for all the good bug reports, it really helps us to make the toolkit 
better.

Regards

-- 
Alex Russell
[email protected]
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