Re: [Web-erp-developers] Interface

[Daintrees <p.d...@pa...>]

I looked for the first time on the weekend when you gave us the URL.

Phil
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  From: skaill=20
  To: web...@li...=20
  Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [Web-erp-developers] Interface


  Have you looked in the past day or two, Phil?  Some of your comments =
may be before I did a bunch of work.  Hopefully you have some time to =
look again.  No question marks anymore and they were only temporary =
before I was going to create a help graphic.  Anyway, I think the way =
you did with the one Help at the top is good as long as we document =
clearly, possibly in the first online help screen, that the help will =
change contextually.  Possibly by the menu items you mean the =
menu_group_items or do you mean the main_menu?

  The menus would be javascript.  However, I believe when I did testing =
in several browsers on this site I created www.goldenwitch.com they =
worked on all.  Some people with various browsers could try going to =
that site to see if the drop-down menus work perfectly.  It is minimal =
and very standard javascript.  I agree with avoiding javascript, java =
and any other language as much as possible but you can't make drop-down =
menus unless you have code at the client side.  I think ALL languages =
besides PHP, HTML and CSS should be optional in the config or elsewhere.

  I still have to get up with the cvs thing.  I have it installed but =
haven't tried it out.  When I do something it's all at once so one day =
soon I'll be doing cvs and will send you.

  I saw the user and database in the newest demo.  Something else I =
noticed though was that the Help gave an error.  Can't remember exactly =
where or why right now though.

  Steve

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    From: Daintrees=20
    To: web...@li...=20
    Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 4:15 PM
    Subject: Re: [Web-erp-developers] Interface


    I guess this would be java?
    If it could be made to work in all forms of java then it would be a =
useful addition - I have tried to avoid it so far and have no knowlege =
personally. It is nice not to depend on java for anything. I agree it =
would be good.

    I would like to clean the css if you send me the files.=20

    I like the vertical oreintation of the menus - I think it needs some =
spacing between the menu items - they all merge together.
    As previously mentioned I am not so keen on the preponderance of =
question marks. I think this is probably superseeded following our =
discussion on the help.

    I already added the user and database to the titles - in 2.9


    Phil



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      From: skaill=20
      To: web...@li...=20
      Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 2:35 AM
      Subject: [Web-erp-developers] Interface


      I've been working with the interface quite a bit now.  For those =
who would like to see what I've done go to http://weberp.gocom.ca.  =
Please make many, many comments good or bad.

      While I've been doing this I fixed some incorrect code and cleaned =
it up, especially the css.  There were several places that had commands =
which weren't actually being used and in fact would lead someone to =
think that what they were seeing should be different.  This is typical =
and I'm no exception but I took the time to do some cleanup.  I think it =
is easier to read and understand now.

      Phil, if you like parts of this refined interface or all of it we =
can get it into the base product.  Let me know.

      I'm seriously thinking about adding code that will do drop-down =
menus and allow a user option to specify whether they see the interface =
displayed now or they see drop-down menus.  With the drop-down menus it =
would allow everything to be accessible all the time with little screen =
space taken up.  It also looks pro.  Plus the fast access options become =
basically irrelevant with drop-down menus.

      Steve