Auto-expanding textareas/input fields and DnD

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Stephanie,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT)
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> I know it is possible to do this with Chiba, but does Orbeon support
> auto-expanding textareas and input fields?  I know it can be done via
> Javascript, but if there was something built in that did it automatically,
> it would be great.

It works slightly differently than what you describe, but you can add
appearance="xxforms:autosize" on a <xforms:textarea>, and the textarea
will automatically expand vertically as you type more text into it.

> Also, is there an ETC for the Drag n’ Drop functionality (using
> xxforms:dnd="true")?

We are not working actively on this feature, so no ETC at this point.
But there is already quite a bit of work that went into this, and we
not necessarily that far from having something that can used, at least
in some simple cases. I think we'll need someone to help us with this
if we want to make some real progress in the short term, either by
sponsoring our work (through a development support plan), or by
contributing code. If you feel like digging into the code, let us
know, and we'll try to help.

Alex
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Hi Alex,

Is there a way to make the textarea expand horizontally, rather than vertically?

Thanks,
Stephanie

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Subject: [ops-users] Re: Auto-expanding textareas/input fields and DnD

Stephanie,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I know it is possible to do this with Chiba, but does Orbeon support
> auto-expanding textareas and input fields?  I know it can be done via
> Javascript, but if there was something built in that did it
> automatically, it would be great.

It works slightly differently than what you describe, but you can add appearance="xxforms:autosize" on a <xforms:textarea>, and the textarea will automatically expand vertically as you type more text into it.

> Also, is there an ETC for the Drag n' Drop functionality (using
> xxforms:dnd="true")?

We are not working actively on this feature, so no ETC at this point.
But there is already quite a bit of work that went into this, and we not necessarily that far from having something that can used, at least in some simple cases. I think we'll need someone to help us with this if we want to make some real progress in the short term, either by sponsoring our work (through a development support plan), or by contributing code. If you feel like digging into the code, let us know, and we'll try to help.

Alex
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Orbeon Forms - Web forms, open-source, for the Enterprise Orbeon's Blog: http://www.orbeon.com/blog/ My Twitter: http://twitter.com/avernet


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Stephanie,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Stephanie Hall (TT)
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> Is there a way to make the textarea expand horizontally, rather than vertically?

Not out-of-the-box. This could be implemented though (typically in an
XBL component).

Alex
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Do you think you could please give me an example of how I would do this
with an XBL component in separate deployment?  Otherwise I will just try
to do it via Javascript.

Thanks,
Stephanie

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From: Alessandro Vernet [mailto:[hidden email]]
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Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: Re: Auto-expanding textareas/input fields
and DnD

Stephanie,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Stephanie Hall (TT)
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Is there a way to make the textarea expand horizontally, rather than
vertically?

Not out-of-the-box. This could be implemented though (typically in an
XBL component).

Alex
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Orbeon Forms - Web forms, open-source, for the Enterprise Orbeon's Blog:
http://www.orbeon.com/blog/ My Twitter: http://twitter.com/avernet


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Stephanie,

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Stephanie Hall (TT)
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> Do you think you could please give me an example of how I would do this
> with an XBL component in separate deployment?  Otherwise I will just try
> to do it via Javascript.

You can read about XBL here:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/xbl-components-guide

And the existing components can be a good source of inspiration. There are in:

http://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/tree/master/src/resources-packaged/xbl/orbeon/

And of course, let us know if you have any question!

Alex
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