Forum OpenACS Development: Will the template::forms part of openACS be continued ?

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1: Will the template::forms part of openACS be continued ?
Posted by Peter Alberer on 03/04/02 10:59 AM

Yesterday I started programming something like a server-side form object (similar to what i saw in .net) Then i realized that the template::form thing has quite similar intentions. But it seems that it is not really used a lot within openacs.

Will its development be continued ? Or what are the plans with it ?

TIA

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2: Response to Will the template::forms part of openACS be continued ? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 03/04/02 03:55 PM
Yes! Yes! Yes!  Packages should be using this and I'd really like to rewrite some that don't to do so in our next release cycle.  I've recently fixes some bugs in it (completed the "currency" widget to a "good enough for now" stage, though long-term it needs to integrate with the data in acs-lang; fixed date comparisons etc etc).

In fact I've been thinking a bit about ways to integrate form building with ad_page_contract in order to make form-handling page construction even easier.

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Posted by Ken Kennedy on 03/05/02 01:30 AM
Sounds interesting...I'm REALLY gonna have to dig into the 4.5 docs and code here RSN. Exciting!!