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Custom Components

Kristopher Stice
I was wondering if anyone has built a custom component to use in form  
builder. I am wanting to know the proper way of doing this to prevent
impact on out of the box orbeon files. Any insight would be helpful.

Thanks,

Kristopher
 


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Re: Custom Components

Hank Ratzesberger

Hi Kristopher,

I was able to interface with the Google Map API using JavaScript,
not exactly a custom control.  One strategy is to use a regular control,
such as an input, that is hidden.  You can use this to capture and
send events to the visible control written in JavaScript.

To create a new control in the XForms namespace would, I suspect,
require changes to several files within the server engine.

http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-2#xforms-javascript

Regards,
Hank


On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone has built a custom component to use in  
> form builder. I am wanting to know the proper way of doing this to  
> prevent
> impact on out of the box orbeon files. Any insight would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kristopher
>
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Re: Re: Custom Components

Kristopher Stice
Hi Hank,

Thanks - The example Custom Component that I am needing to build is a  
latitude/longitude control that takes degrees and minutes.   Your  
suggestion helps me with another issue I have, but not the current  
one. I need to build this custom component and several other types.  
They will  be used by the form builder users to quickly add a lat/long  
to the form.  This lat/long control is a control that has 4 text  
fields that holds lat degrees, minutes and Long degrees and minutes.  
I also need to do validation on each text box to validate that lat as  
example is within the 90 degrees range.  I don't need help building  
the concept of the control as I am familiar with that.  I am looking  
for how to added this control into the orbeon form builder to be used  
by form builder users. So that I do it the way Orbeon was designed an  
not customize orbeon files I shouldn' t be touching.   If you or  
anyone has suggestions I am all ears on this topic.


Best Regards,
Kristopher


On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:

>
> Hi Kristopher,
>
> I was able to interface with the Google Map API using JavaScript,
> not exactly a custom control.  One strategy is to use a regular  
> control,
> such as an input, that is hidden.  You can use this to capture and
> send events to the visible control written in JavaScript.
>
> To create a new control in the XForms namespace would, I suspect,
> require changes to several files within the server engine.
>
> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-2#xforms-javascript
>
> Regards,
> Hank
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone has built a custom component to use in  
>> form builder. I am wanting to know the proper way of doing this to  
>> prevent
>> impact on out of the box orbeon files. Any insight would be helpful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kristopher
>>
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> Hank Ratzesberger
> NEES@UCSB
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Re: Re: Re: Custom Components

Hank Ratzesberger

Kristopher,

I agree it would be useful to have a way to specify custom
controls or groups of them, or pre-configured controls in the form  
builder.
I can't be much help with that.

--Hank


On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:

> Hi Hank,
>
> Thanks - The example Custom Component that I am needing to build is  
> a latitude/longitude control that takes degrees and minutes.   Your  
> suggestion helps me with another issue I have, but not the current  
> one. I need to build this custom component and several other  
> types.  They will  be used by the form builder users to quickly add  
> a lat/long to the form.  This lat/long control is a control that  
> has 4 text fields that holds lat degrees, minutes and Long degrees  
> and minutes.  I also need to do validation on each text box to  
> validate that lat as example is within the 90 degrees range.  I  
> don't need help building the concept of the control as I am  
> familiar with that.  I am looking for how to added this control  
> into the orbeon form builder to be used by form builder users. So  
> that I do it the way Orbeon was designed an not customize orbeon  
> files I shouldn' t be touching.   If you or anyone has suggestions  
> I am all ears on this topic.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Kristopher
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Kristopher,
>>
>> I was able to interface with the Google Map API using JavaScript,
>> not exactly a custom control.  One strategy is to use a regular  
>> control,
>> such as an input, that is hidden.  You can use this to capture and
>> send events to the visible control written in JavaScript.
>>
>> To create a new control in the XForms namespace would, I suspect,
>> require changes to several files within the server engine.
>>
>> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-2#xforms-javascript
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hank
>>
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone has built a custom component to use in  
>>> form builder. I am wanting to know the proper way of doing this  
>>> to prevent
>>> impact on out of the box orbeon files. Any insight would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kristopher
>>>
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>> Hank Ratzesberger
>> NEES@UCSB
>> Institute for Crustal Studies,
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> 805-893-8042
>>
>>
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Re: Re: Re: Custom Components

Erik Bruchez
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We now have a pretty good, if recent, framework in place to build  
custom components usable by the XForms engine. This is based on XBL.

If you look at a recent nightly build and look for standard.xbl under  
WEB-INF/resources, you will find some example components there. Those  
are actually loaded by Form Builder.

We have some developer documentation here:

   http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/projects/xforms-component-system

-Erik

On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:

> Hi Hank,
>
> Thanks - The example Custom Component that I am needing to build is  
> a latitude/longitude control that takes degrees and minutes.   Your  
> suggestion helps me with another issue I have, but not the current  
> one. I need to build this custom component and several other types.  
> They will  be used by the form builder users to quickly add a lat/
> long to the form.  This lat/long control is a control that has 4  
> text fields that holds lat degrees, minutes and Long degrees and  
> minutes.  I also need to do validation on each text box to validate  
> that lat as example is within the 90 degrees range.  I don't need  
> help building the concept of the control as I am familiar with  
> that.  I am looking for how to added this control into the orbeon  
> form builder to be used by form builder users. So that I do it the  
> way Orbeon was designed an not customize orbeon files I shouldn' t  
> be touching.   If you or anyone has suggestions I am all ears on  
> this topic.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Kristopher
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Hank Ratzesberger wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Kristopher,
>>
>> I was able to interface with the Google Map API using JavaScript,
>> not exactly a custom control.  One strategy is to use a regular  
>> control,
>> such as an input, that is hidden.  You can use this to capture and
>> send events to the visible control written in JavaScript.
>>
>> To create a new control in the XForms namespace would, I suspect,
>> require changes to several files within the server engine.
>>
>> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-2#xforms-javascript
>>
>> Regards,
>> Hank
>>
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Kristopher Stice wrote:
>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone has built a custom component to use in  
>>> form builder. I am wanting to know the proper way of doing this to  
>>> prevent
>>> impact on out of the box orbeon files. Any insight would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kristopher
>>>
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>>
>> Hank Ratzesberger
>> NEES@UCSB
>> Institute for Crustal Studies,
>> University of California, Santa Barbara
>> 805-893-8042
>>
>>
>>
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