[ANN] SpecGenerator: easy CRUD applications with Spec
Sometimes you just want to quickly create an application for data entry, without spending too much time constructing forms and lists. Wouldn't it be great if you could build something while talking to a client, and directly show the results? SpecGenerator helps you with this. It needs the SelectEntity widget that you can get by loading Ancestry from the catalog, and can be found on smalltalkhub in StephanEggermont/SpecGenerator https://vimeo.com/162589115 Stephan
Thatâs a cool idea and great to see it in action! One suggestion though: how about adding titles to the editor windows, to help the user in what he/she is filling in.
On Apr 12, 2016, at 17:05, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
Sometimes you just want to quickly create an application for data entry, without spending too much time constructing forms and lists. Wouldn't it be great if you could build something while talking to a client, and directly show the results?
SpecGenerator helps you with this.
It needs the SelectEntity widget that you can get by loading Ancestry from the catalog, and can be found on smalltalkhub in StephanEggermont/SpecGenerator
Stephan
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On 12/04/16 22:27, Johan Fabry wrote:
Thatâs a cool idea and great to see it in action!
Thanks.
One suggestion though: how about adding titles to the editor windows, to help the user in what he/she is filling in.
Yeah, this is just the first iteration. The field labels get used as ghost text now, conserving space. That is an easy change in the code generation. Stephan
On Apr 12, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
Yeah, this is just the first iteration. The field labels get used as ghost text now, conserving space. That is an easy change in the code generation.
Hi Stephan, With the availability of Spec, this latest example, and your previous examples (Drag Panels, Cards, MorphicDraw), I feel like I am one (theoretical) step away from understanding how to create a Spec UI Widget Builder/code generator. I try not to let my heavy VB past influence me too much when it is not appropriate, but the idea of dragging widgets to a canvas, using some tools to apply layouts, and knowing what event messages are available to you appeals greatly to me. I've always wanted to try that, and it seems quite possible now. Thank you! Rob
On 13-04-16 05:02, Robert J Rothwell wrote:
With the availability of Spec, this latest example, and your previous examples (Drag Panels, Cards, MorphicDraw), I feel like I am one (theoretical) step away from understanding how to create a Spec UI Widget Builder/code generator. Good. I find creating those small prototypes and producing a screencast about them a good way to document my learning. I've had great suggestions on things to improve and even people using the tools, and I'm very happy that I can help create a better understanding of our UI tooling. I try not to let my heavy VB past influence me too much when it is not appropriate, but the idea of dragging widgets to a canvas, using some tools to apply layouts, and knowing what event messages are available to you appeals greatly to me. I've always wanted to try that, and it seems quite possible now. Thank you! Rob That was one of the early attractions of Delphi too. Nice for small prototypes but difficult to scale. No good tools to change the text field background color in all 135 forms. Good to combine with a generated application, where less used views and flows are generated automatically and you only override important views.
Stephan
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