Re: [activegrid-developers] Changing the view of Activegrid applications

[Lawrence B. <lbr...@ac...>]

Hi Paulo,

So currently you can't use your own front-end to render the HTML for an Activegrid Application.  The ActiveGrid runtime interpets the application and executes it in the runtime language of choice (Python, PHP, etc.) and renders the HTML to go in the HTTP response, which is returned to Apache to send back to the client.  Remember that for a deployed application, the ActiveGrid runtime actually runs inside Apache, hosted by the corresponding Apache 
module (modpython, modphp).

In the new 1.0 release of ActiveGrid, the user has more control over the look and feel of the application, including stylesheet editing and layouts.  But we're still not at the point where you can embed your own HTML in every desirable location or write your own rendering code/dispatch to some other XForms rendering engine.

I hope this answers your question.

- Lawrence

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paulo Sérgio Medeiros <pa...@gm...>
Date: Aug 2, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: [activegrid-developers] Changing the view of Activegrid applications
To: act...@li...


Hi all,

I'm planning to use something different for the frontend of activegrid
applications and was wondering
how can i do that. 

Into this context, some questions came to my mind:(1)How does
activegrid generates html (and jsp, css etc) code or the
client code? (2) How it connects to the server-side? 

Can anyone point to me the way?  :-) 

I know that the question is 'vague' ... but i just want some pointers
to, essentially,  how i can change the view of my application
without losing the facilities of activegrid (connection to database,
web service, workflow (bpel) etc).

If this is feasible i intend to generate Laszlo code for the interface
and integrate Laszlo and Activegrid.

Cheers,
Paulo Sérgio.