Comments on: P4A 3 commit digest

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:14:52 +0000

@BES: ok, what I understood is that I’ve to recreate a sheet widget… :-)

By: BES

BES — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:30:17 +0000

This is all I was doing with p4a_sheet – just using it as a way to drop in text (which could include HTML tags).

After setting the mask title …

$this->intro =& $this->build(“p4a_sheet”,”intro”);
$this->intro->setWidth($this->frameWidth);
$this->intro->setStyleProperty(“float”,”center”);
$this->intro->anchorText(“blah blah blah about what this mask is for”);
$this->main->anchor($this->intro);

Nothing fancy, just the only way I could figure out how to get HTML content on the mask about a year and a half ago.

I don’t really care about p4a_sheet, just need to figure out the easiest way to put HTML on the mask and change my codebase.

Onward!!!

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:54:19 +0000

@BES: I edited your post to fix the html code :-) about all other things we know about all p4a’s problems but what p4a 3 need is to be the most tested and functional possible. sheets were not compatible with that design so we removed it. you can still use it copying it inside your application but it would not be a part of p4a3 becuase we want to solve once and for all the obsolescence of some components and some API. The major release change has been choosen also for that, and we’re sorry for the porting problems but we can’t be tied to 4 years old API if we want to be on the edge. :-)

By: BES

BES — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:13:51 +0000

Ooop! This software uses the HTML tags! I use
, , etc. in p4a_sheet to provide formatted instructions to users.

By: BES

BES — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:11:06 +0000

I use sheet to include HTML. Been using it successfully for a long time. I missed the mention of its obsolescence in the forum. The is nothing in the P4A Reference about it being obsolete — that certainly would have been valuable, as I use the reference a lot.

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:14:51 +0000

@BES: why do you use sheet? you should use frame instead which performs much better, sheet was removed now but was unsupported since long time and was too much resource consuming.

By: BES

BES — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:11:42 +0000

When will P4A_Sheet return? I use it numerous times on virtually every mask to provide user instructions.

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:49 +0000

I linked your page here: http://p4a.crealabsfoundation.org/base-application so users can find your code :-)

By: Fabrizio Balliano

Fabrizio Balliano — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:46:49 +0000

I wrote P4A_Base_Mask, not application :-) anyway i think that base_application should remain outside the core at the moment and anyway we’ll have to port it to the new translation system (wich currently is finished for the core but not for applications…) need more time :-((

By: Mechano

Mechano — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:39:46 +0000

Hi Fabrizio!

Here my version of the p4a_base_application with 4 menu levels.

http://www.mechanicamente.it/content/view/15/8/

I’ve developed a multilanguage version also.
Where in the db table there’s a menu description column for every language, and language can be set both per user or on the entire program interface.

Are you interested in this items?