Re: Re: FormLis a lisp based startup in Calgary

[wag...@telusplanet.net]

Hey Wade,

I looked at your stuff in the sandbox, and I was enlightened. Since I wrote the parser, I just automatically avoid problems that you've run up against.

With field labels, there needs to be a space following the colon or it won't get detected. One of yours was missing it. Because it could'nt see that this was a field entry, it entered paragraph mode, and it assumed the other rows were just lines in a paragraph. Paragraph mode takes precedence, its not pretty, but the rule is in place so that non-significant colons in paragraphs don't create bullets.

Finally, because it was in paragraph mode, it saw the fields, but couldn't find their associated labels. So it just wrote 'disabled field' instead. (I should make it render disabled fields again --- those are less scary).

But thanks for trying it out, I corrected the sandbox stuff so it renders as you probably intended.

Cheers,
Warren Wilkinson






Jun 19, 2010 06:56:58 AM, calgary-lis...@googlegroups.com wrote:

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Hi Warren,
Is the intention to create a template of a Wiki Form that when filled out is stored as a Web Page. Is there any code in the background which analyzes the form and builds a database "object" against the template (independent of the form)? I think it does as you can request all instances of the page in a CSV report and the ability to create views.
At my current job we have a forms designer much like that. It was originally build for a terminal interface (a few decades ago) and is still used. The screen is translated into a WIndows Form (using a non-proportional font).
I played with your demos a bit and its interesting. I tried to do something like this
Name: _______ Site: ________Lat: _____ Lon: _____
But it did not show as I expected (only one entry per line?)
Does anyone know if the fancy javascript libraries allow one to build a forms designer (analogy Visual Studio) ?
Wade

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