[Cosmo-dev] More Cosmo UI Status

[Jeremy Epstein]

is this something we can see on http://shiva.fleegix.org  ?


Matthew Eernisse wrote:
> Cosmo folks,
>
> I'll chime in here with my status too. I've been refactoring the 
> hairball of code that loads events and renders the UI.
>
> My cleanup work will allow us to do the toggling between calendar and 
> dash view, and will have the added benefit of making the UI re-render 
> properly when you resize the browser window.
>
> After I'm done, UI rendering will happen in three phases:
>
> 1. Set up the base UI layout -- the three columns that all the UI 
> widgets sit in.
> 2. Load the needed data from the server -- e.g., fetch events for the 
> cal view.
> 3. Populate the base layout with widgets using the data from the server.
>
> The new rendering code does recursive composition, meaning the base 
> layout knows what components it contains, and rendering it will 
> trigger rendering of all its subcomponents, and so on, out to all of 
> the branches of the layout tree.
>
> I've got the UI loading again, and the cal canvas rendering. 
> Everything reflows now when you resize the browser window.
>
> Here's what's left for me to do:
> 1. Pull the go-to date out of the old detail-view form code, and 
> either bundle it in with minical, or make it its own little widget.
> 2. Hook the collection selector up so that it actually changes 
> collections.
> 3. The top menubar. (This should also fix that pesky bug where the 
> signup graphic keeps showing up under the subscription selector.)
>
> After that I'll move on to building out the new stamped detail-view form.
>
>
> Matthew
>
>
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