There are a few things that the custom grid does that you cannot do with tables in the Rally SDK-- specifically re-ranking items.
For an app that I am making, incorporating a custom grid would work well, but I would like to be able to configure them programatically-- e.g. set up column names and widths, query parameters, etc. and then have that be a portion of my app-- I might set up a few grids in the app with different query parameters.
It that possible?
It's not possible. Yet.
We are working hard on a shiny new App SDK based on the Ext JS Framework. It will have a lot of the same features you are familiar with in Rally (like the grid w/ re-ranking, inline editing, etc).
Watch for it later this spring/summer!
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I am hesitant to develop a Windows Phone app in the HTML/WinJS Universal App space because of the difficulty of building complex user controls. Before I go the XAML/C# route, I would like to find out if it is possible to use a user control built in XAML/C# inside of an HTML/WinJS view?
My initial feeling is that it is not possible due to XAML parsing not being available in the HTML space, but I am not certain that this is the case. Any thoughts?
Also, I am not interested in 3rd party solutions such as Xamerin. I am really trying to see if this is possible from a native approach.
No. The HTML and Xaml UI stacks in the Windows Runtime are separate and cannot be mixed. You can call non-UI C# or native Windows Runtime Components from JavaScript.
You can include HTML in a Xaml WebView, but there is no reverse hosting.
--Rob
I'm trying out the mobile pattern, and have been trying to crate my own custom pattern that is now supposedly supported in Worklight 6.1.
When I tried creating jquery UI pattern, several issues:
1. The rich page editor for the pattern.html does not display the jquery component correctly on the design page (e.g button is displayed as link).
2. When I added a new page (into a jquery hybrid app) based on the custom UI pattern, it does not create a new page. It only adds the content code into the index.html, and I had to create the page myself.
Is this the correct behaviour?
I'm also having difficulty in creating Dojo UI pattern… as there is no Dojo component available on the palette when I open up the dojo > pattern.html file.
Do I have to add the libraries and code manually (i.e. no Drag-and-Drop)?
Appreciate any pointers on this.
PS: I'm using Eclipse Juno R2
1) For jQuery based patterns you need to append a jQuery core file to the project besides the jQuery mobile ones, for example, append this one: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js to your project, next to jquery mobile JS file. This is just because "UI Pattern" projects don't have this file available, but they need it to handle a proper preview.
2) For Dojo patterns, there is still no official support (for example Drag and drop), so even you can modify pattern.html to get some "insertable" code, you may still need some additional tuning to get a valid pattern.
I would like to replicate the song view of the Music app, in my Windows 8 Metro app using WinJS.
I'm using a StorageDataSource to load files from the music library in a list view. This works well, now I'd like to group music files by some property (ex.: album).
StorageDataSource does not support grouping, so I'm looking for tips on how to go at this. It has to be efficient as the user can have many items in the library, but I don't need it to auto-update when new files are added/removed (though it would be nice).
My current understanding is that I need to build 2 custom data sources:
One or the itemDataSource of the ListView, and is a wrapper around StorageDataSource. Ex.: the getItemsFromIndex implementation queries the underlying dataSource for its items that it wraps in a literal. I can't just set the StorageDataSource as its objects are immutable.
One for the groupDataSource of the listView. I build it manually once when the app loads, by iterating over my first StorageDataSource and determining how many groups I have, and where each one starts in terms of itemDataSource indexes.
It works, but I wonder if there's a better way. It also seems impossible to have groups in a ListLayout and it forces items to be displayed horizontally.
Does anyone have tips for the high level view of what's required here? Thanks.
First, you are correct that if you are using a list layout that grouping isn't supported; its only supported in the Grid layout. You could choose to insert fake data items for the groups that you could style as you needed using a custom item template rendering function.
The rest of your stuff will require some learning I suggest you take a look at the ListView samples to really understand the ins and outs of the data source API.
One option is to let the ListView calculate them for you by supplying the computerDataSourceGroups function:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh700578.aspx
The other option is that the StorageDataSource source is right the for you to look at; adding grouping to this as a raw datasource may in fact be your most efficient and maintainable solution. It will hopefully allow you to continue to leverage the virtualization of the listview without causing the data source to de virtualized. You should find the source in the references node in VS, in ui.js.
So I'm just getting used to and getting my arms around the new "panel-based" App scheme released with the 5/5/2012 version of Rally. At first it was a bit frustrating to lose the window real estate when I've been accustomed to full-page iFrames.
I am curious however - from a desire to optimize the way I use real estate onscreen for an App page - I would like to setup and utilize a multi-panel App whose components can communicate. For instance, I'd like to have one App panel display some control widgets and perhaps an AppSDK table, and a second App panel display a chart or grid that responds to events/controls in the first panel.
I've been scanning the AppSDK docs for hints as to how this might be accomplished, but I'm coming up short. Is there a way to wire up event listeners in one App panel that respond to widget controls in another?
We have not decided the best way to have the Apps communicate yet. That is something we are still spiking out internally to find the best way to do it.
Each custom App is in an IFrame so figuring out how to make them communicate can be a bit tricky. Once we figure out a good way to do it we will be sure to let you know.
Has this topic, "app Communication", been addressed yet? I would to have one Custom Grid show User Stories. When a user story is selected another grid show the related tasks.
I'm searching for some code samples for my Flash application. The app is based on screen-flows , i.e each screen is defined with some visual elements with some buttons which have async events associated with them(consuming web services basically). The buttons also have functionality to go back and forth between screens and jump to any screen. I want to define all of the visual elements and the functionality of the events in a XML file. Thus the model, view and controller are all in the XML. Does any framework allow this like Pure MVC? Where can I find some examples of this kind of functionality that I want?
There's a Flash implementation of Heirarchical State Machines here, which mentions XML and Flow Control:
http://code.google.com/p/troyworks/
(Note: There's a very slick screencasting application called Screenflow which may lay claim on that particular term these days...)