Hmm... good point about the custom components. I didn't even think
about those.
What if it were a preference pane that you could set what components
to suggest for a given attribute type so you aren't showing all of
them? Does the drag and drop know the attribute's type when it is
being dragged? You could then simply check the list of components are
available for that type and which binding it would be bound to. Would
that still be horrible for performance?
Dave
On May 14, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> I think this would be SUPER expensive to do to show all of them (and
> probably not all that helpful), but we could certainly special-case
> this for common bindings ... Aside from the terrible performance
> problems the general case would have, in many cases we don't know
> what is considered "valid". For instance, for dynamic elements, the
> API doesn't give any indication at all of the expected type of the
> binding.
>
> ms
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 9:10 AM, David Avendasora wrote:
>
>> Hi all (mostly Mike),
>>
>> I have an idea to extend the drag-and-drop functionality that Mike
>> has added for setting bindings on WO tags.
>>
>> If you drag and drop an item from the Bindings Tab to an insertion
>> point in the HTML where there isn't a WO tag, would it be possible
>> to pop up a list of all the possible WO tags that would work with
>> the dragged item's type? This would be the same as popping up a
>> list of possible bindings when dropped on a WO tag.
>>
>> For all attributes, the normal thing to insert would be a WOString
>> tag and automatically bind the item to the value binding. For
>> anything that is an array, it could give a choice of inserting a
>> WORepitition or a WOPopUpButton with the array joined to the list
>> binding.
>>
>> This would eliminate an extra step of having to first insert the WO
>> tag, then do the bindings. You'd still have to drag-and-drop other
>> bindings, but this would streamline the process quite a bit.
>>
>> That and for all us drag-and-droppers, it would make WOLips
>> actually _easier_ to use than WOBuilder!
>>
>> What do people think?
>>
>> I'd be happy to add this as a feature request, I just want to know
>> what others think first.
>>
>> Dave
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