[Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...

[Todd Christopher Hamilton]

For a year I have been using dojo.  It is a javascript ajax
development framework.  You might be able to accomplish what you want
using this tool.  I am always amazed at what people are doing with
that tool. It is open source and there are a lot of institutional
contributes.  Let me know what you think.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM, James Harr <jharr at ist.unomaha.edu> wrote:
> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
>
> GWT is a Java -> javascript compiler. It's what all of the google webapps
> are written in. If you write a little web-widget, the server-side code
> doesn't need to do any output formatting, just return JSON data. You could
> have the client widget request data when the user scrolls to that spot.
>
> At one point I thought they had a "scrollbar" widget, which wouldn't scroll
> anything, it'd just hand you the data. Apparently I'm mistaken. Though they
> do provide a lot of the facilities for writing a widget like that in a
> browser-independent manner.
>
> Check it out, might be worth playing with, might not.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omaha-pm-bounces+jharr=ist.unomaha.edu at pm.org on behalf of Jay Hannah
> Sent: Fri 11/21/2008 4:59 PM
> To: odynug at googlegroups.com; Perl Mongers of Omaha, Nebraska USA
> Subject: [Omaha.pm] Fishing for GUI ideas...
>
> So Mario and I wrote this tool in Perl that kicks out HTML:
>
>    http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/~jhannah/RT386/demo.html
>
> Click the pretty colors.
>
> I have this crazy notion of some sort of GUI where:
>
> - Users can seamlessly scroll left and right hundreds of thousands /
> millions of letters without having to stop and jump to another page.
> - I can add parallel rows of ~300 letters which can be clicked to show /
> hide them. But somehow the current horizontal expand/collapse will still
> work. Overlapping rows would magically bump out of each others way.
> - Users could add their own notes at certain places.
>
> Given that all this data is unpredictable, with tens of thousands of
> clickable things in the same dataset...
>
> How would YOU write that GUI?
>
> Stumped,
>
> j
> http://clab.ist.unomaha.edu/CLAB/index.php/User:Jhannah
>
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