Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI Updates

[Peter R. <ant...@gm...>]

Hi Raymond,

>>Will you push your changes to the CVS?
> 
> 
> Yes I will but not until we have tested the new code
> with Boxfix etc. For the time being you can download

Dumb question: How to test it? What kind of feedback do
you need?

> the copy from www.xwisdomhtml.com. It's a copy of what
> I've locally on my pc.

Ah - I missed the download link (searched a while again but
finally found it ;)

>>Can I see an example of this? I just got used to the
>>StyleManager-thing ;)
>>But I'm very curious about the new widget design!
> 
> 
> Sure. Download the version from my site. The problem
> with StyleManager is that it's slower and will only
> complicate things when you want to change the style of
> complex widgets. 

I see the new design. It's much simpler indeed. Integrating the
mouse events is really a step forward I think. The PITA I had
developing widgets with the StyleManager-Stuff was the descision
where to put which code. I think this is really simpler because
you only have one file, one class.
Even though I liked the idea of pluggable styles which implement
other behaviour (flatbutton vs button) I see the much simpler and
straighter design of the new widgets. So I really, really like it.
Even more if I remember the pain I had understanding the StyleManager
in the first place ;)

Another question: In which way is the StyleManager slower? The problem
I have here is that we developed a huge DHTML-Page with loads of widgets
and I modified the dynapi quite a bit (extended the styles-stuff with
a skin(theme)-manager which comes quite close to the new widget design ;)
and other minor/major changes) so switching would be less fun ;) So I
am curious about the problems with the Stylemanager since we have
performance-problems every now and then and switching to the new design
would take a while (and it will not happen until 3.0 final is out). So
can you give any details or performance hints?

BTW: When the CVS is in sync again and I have the time here, I will try
to convert some of  my widgets (including a full featured cross-browser
Richtext-Editor, ColorChooser and other neat things) to "standard"-dynapi
widgets.

Last question ;) Do you have any release plan yet?

Keep up the good work!

Regards
Peter

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> Raymond Irving
> 
> 
>>Regards,
>>Peter
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>>
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