1 Sep
2006
1 Sep
'06
9:34 p.m.
In the form editor (invoked by PREditFormCommand),
editing the
priorities of the descriptions labeled under "elements" in an
adaptive form doesn't seem to do anything. An example of the type
of description editor that I'm looking for is the form editor in
Aare that you presented in your master thesis, where you can move
the order of the descriptions up and down, in addition to removing
and editing them.
Now I understand. You found a bug! ;-)
The problem was that the description of the container didn't set the
children to ordered and then the report didn't display the 'up' and
'down' links. This bug is fixed in Magritte-Model-lr.225. Thanks for
reporting.
MAContainer class>>descriptionChildren
^ (MAToManyRelationDescription accessor: (MASelectorAccessor read:
#children write: #setChildren:) label: 'Elements' priority: 400
default: self defaultCollection)
classes: (MADynamicObject on: [ MAElementDescription
withAllConcreteClasses ]);
beOrdered; " <--- this was missing "
yourself
Some background information: The Form Editor in Pier is completely
auto generated, there is no additional code. In contrary the editor
in Aare, a commercial workflow definition and management system, has
been especially customized for this application. Therefor it displays
only a small selection of relevant tools for our customer.
Let me know if I'm still not making much sense
here. This meta
stuff and Smalltalk are still very new to me, so I might not be
using the correct terminologies here.
Btw, I'll be at Camp-Smalltalk and ESUG in Prague starting from
Saturday for a week. If anybody is interested to participate and I
find some spare time I would like to start with new (not sure yet if
this will be 1.1 or 2.0) and rethought version of Magritte. And yes,
I will also give two Seaside related presentations ;-)
See you in Prague,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch