Re: How to edit a component

From: Pascal Robert (prober..acti.ca)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 14:33:18 EST

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    Le 09-02-25 à 14:21, Chuck Hill a écrit :

    >
    > On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:19 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Le 09-02-25 à 06:49, Anders Peterson a écrit :
    >>
    >>> Anjo Krank wrote:
    >>>> Am 25.02.2009 um 09:09 schrieb Anders Peterson:
    >>>>> The best part WOBuilder - why I was reluctant to abandon it -
    >>>>> was that hybrid/conceptual component view (in combination with
    >>>>> the drag-and-drop binding functionality). It was neither a
    >>>>> wysiwyg preview nor an html (outline) view/editor, but it gave
    >>>>> me a very good idea about what my page would look like and what
    >>>>> the code looked like.
    >>>> Except for tables, this always looked pretty ridiculously wrong
    >>>> and is pretty much worthless with "modern" layouts that use style
    >>>> sheets.
    >>>
    >>> I maintain (incl. adding new functionality) old applications. They
    >>> contain components build the old way using the old tools. Some of
    >>> the components have become very complex, exploiting the possibles
    >>> of the old techniques and tools to the max. I worry about how I
    >>> will be able to maintain these applications/components in the
    >>> future. I'd be very surprised if I was the only one in this
    >>> situation.
    >>
    >> I must admit that the WO Component editor is a pain for those old
    >> applications. We also have old apps with > 20 tables and multiple
    >> WOConditionnals and those not-so-useful binding names that WO
    >> Builder was creating (ie : "String1", "Conditionnal1", etc.). In a
    >> certain way, WOLips enforce best pratices so that you start your
    >> new projects in a good way, and it's excellent at that. But it's
    >> certainly doable to work with old apps in WOLips, and it will
    >> encourage you to at least change the binding names to something you
    >> can identify. Just renaming the bindings will help you a lot.
    >
    >
    > I thought that Mike added something to intelligently rename the
    > bindings. I can't find it right now.

    Edit -> Refactor -> Clean WOBuilder Names... Never tried it :-/



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