My wishlist

Hi everybody! Alex asked me awhile back to post a
wishlist of stuff for netWindows, and I finally decided to get around
to doing it :)

I'll start first with the split pane. I do like the split pane, but
something that we would like added is the ability to be able to handle
click events so that when you click, it closes, click again it opens (
slides in and out ). So it would be useful in the td that shows that
shows the actual 'split' in the page, to split that into three sections
so that one section can house an image of some sort that shows you can
click it to hide or show the one pane. I guess as well you'd have to
also identify which side of the split pane that you want to show/hide,
which you could setup as an attribute on the div of the split pane.

The second would be the window. I actually think this should be
somewhat higher on the list. I have found several 'problems' with it,
but can't remember them all :) My first complaint is that it's quite a
kludgy window. It's slow to load, and doesn't move well on the screen,
or at least in our app when we move it around it's kind of jerky. It
would also be nice if there was a way of 'caching' the pages that you
loaded. This again could be something that you could pass as an
attribute so if you do need to reload the page each and every time you
open it, then it can do that, but I think having the option would
definitely speed up our stuff.

And finally something that would be definitely on a 'wishlist', would
be to have a calendar of some sort. We are currently using a calendar
from a third party, but I am not completely happy with it. I've
noticed that you have a date_picker widget that doesn't really have any
code in it, so I'm guessing it just needs to be completed :). Some
'nice' functions to have in there would be a set minimum date, and set
maximum date. This would then limit the choices of dates that the user
has. The user would still be allowed to scroll through the list, but
they wouldn't be allowed to choose anything outside the minimum or
maximum. The minimum/maximum date could also be specified as a number
so that you could specify 5 days prior to today to be the minimum date,
or 20 days from today to be the maximum date. As well, you should also
be able specify whether this is to be a static calendar, one that is
always visible, or a calendar that is derived as a popup, click on an
image and it pops up. You should also be able to specify an element (
input box ) that the selected value gets put into. And with being
able to specify a place for the date to go into, you could then also
include the validator_widget in it, and you could specify the display
format.

So that is my current wishlist. I'm sure that I have forgotten things,
but for now I figured this was a good starting point!

Dee Gould

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