Re: Styling Magritte - smallwiki

28 Jul 2008

Richard E. Flower wrote:
...
  Keith,

 Do you mind me asking what sort of method(s) you used to do the 
 styling of the form that you were
 showing in this older email thread?  Some of what you show is pretty 
 much what I'm looking to do
 but I'm totally lost on how to get it going.. Many thanks in advance 
 for any pointers you can provide..!

 -- Rick
 Basic packages which you may or may not want to use...

Installer lukas project: 'magritteaddons';
    install: 'Magritte-RealMemento';
    install: 'Magritte-CustomBuilder';
    install: 'Magritte-Scriptaculous.

Magritte-RealMemento package uses a real copy of the object as a 
memento, rather than a dictionary of key value pairs. The real object 
has behaviour which may relate data items. To use the real memento you 
have to override #mementoClass for your model.

"Magritte-CustomBuilder" sets the default builder to use a numeric in 
the description selector to set the priority, like so. (I find this very 
useful)

description0250Documents

    ^ MAToManyRelationDescription new
        classes: (Array with: DTIExternalFileModel);

        "Magritte-Scriptaculous extends the accessors so you can do 
things like this...
          Where the visibility of this item is determined by 
#hasOrderNumber."

        accessor: (#documents asAccessor visible: #hasOrderNumber);

        componentClass: MAOneToManyDocumentsComponent;
         label: 'Documents';
        yourself

Accessors augmented in this manner can provide #readonly #visible 
#cssClasses #tooltip and #options (for lists)

For rendering, lukas has his MACssRenderer, and I have my MADivsRenderer 
(part of Magritte-Scriptaculous).
There is also Magritte-ComponentDecoration another add on that you might 
find useful.

best regards

Keith