[Cosmo-dev] [contribution]patch for bug 7767, library to support resizing, splitters, and moveable dialogs.

[Matthew Eernisse]

Jeremy,

I've had a look at the patch, and it's solid.

The UI-reflow when the window resizes (which we have that open bug for) 
and resizing splitters are extremely critical long-term needs for the 
the Web UI. Your code fills those feature holes nicely, and does it in 
an extremely modular and non-intrusive way.

It's optimal timing, because I currently have the UI-rendering code 
jacked up to implement the switching between calendar and list view.

You've already done most of the integration work -- I'll converge your 
patch with all the work I've done to get the last of the calendar-canvas 
code out of cal_main.js, and commit it.

Excellent work, and thank you very, very much for this contribution.


Matthew


Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Attached you will find a Subversion patch file to trunk. This patch 
> provides a simple library to cleanly handle dynamic resizing of DOM 
> elements. It allows developers to introduce splitters, and create things 
> such as moveable, resizable windows from  any block level primitive. The 
> library follows OSAF coding standards and minimally integrates with the 
> dojo package system (it does not depend on any dojo framework 
> components). I took the liberty of integrating into the current trunk ( 
> obviously not committing) for integration testing etc...
> This library can create resizeable elements from special attributes in 
> mark up (declaratively) and also via javascript calls (procedurally)
> 
> Incorporating this patch specifically addresses bug 7767, 
> "Resize/re-flow UI when window is resized.".
> Matthew briefly evaluated this code yesterday to see if there are any 
> major issues. If anyone has detailed questions about any of the inner 
> workings, I'd be happy to explain. You will find a test/prototype  in 
> resize.zip.   Open the HTML file to see an example showing a live sketch 
> of how the major parts of the current UI might use this library.
> 
> Jeremy