Category Archives: gwidgets

gWidgets goes SVN

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I finally took some time to setup an svn account to share gwidgets code and allow collaboration on its development. Welcome to gWidgets on Google Code! It is still a beginning but you can already checkout the code, submit bugs and so on. I also setup a Google Group for gwidgets to allow discussion and support.

Feel free to join the new community, hopefully support and development will improve…

preparing for gWidgets 1.0

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I am finally back from all my trips (personal and business) and I am trying to re-organize my time and priority…and of course one of the item on my list is gwidgets. I am going back to gwidgets dev in order to be able to release asap a 1.0 version. I started by listing the minimum mandatory changes I have to do for this first version, here is my list: Continue reading →

gWidgets plugin for Symfony in the Top 10!

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Unbelievable! My very humble Symfony plugin sfgWidgetsPlugin to add some javascript helpers for gWidgets is 9th on the symfony top list of plugins (by usage)! see the list. Hey guys, there must be a mistake :-) I simply hope it is useful and convenient for those who tried it…hopefully they use it in production ;-)

I know some people wrote to me about some bugs and I did not take the time yet to first fix those bugs and then reply to them…but I promise, by mid-Sept I should be back on track to work again and improve things. A few things on my todo list:

  • fix bugs
  • test on IE
  • remove some dependencies (such as Base.js)
  • improve some part to make the html more compliant
  • add a one or two new widgets maybe (at least one accordeon I hope)

gWidgets: light widgets all around

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It is my turn to use this “no-more-meaning” word: Widgets. Everybody use it in a lot of different context…but I could not find another name yet! Sometime I lack imagination. So what is all about?

I am working currently on a project where I need to use quite a bit of Javascript and I wanted to reuse some code over and over. I am used to work with Prototype which is a pretty good js library and well integrated in Symfony the framework I’ve started working on. I like the idea of widgets in Dojo as well as some plugins from jQuery world and I wanted something somehow similar.

Today I am releasing the first beta version that include only 4 widgets so far. If it is useful for you guys too, we will consider to extend it and add more later (I’ve got plenty of ideas). comments and bugs reports are welcome! So far we have:

  1. gExpander: a simple way to show/hide inline/ajax content.
  2. gTab: tab solution for inline/ajax content.
  3. gBox: simple modal window for inline/ajax content as well as images,
  4. gTip: tooltip for inline/ajax content.

Of course we put a demo for you to see before downloading. For the future, I am thinking to improve the code (I guess you will see that it can be improved a lot) as well adding new widgets and of course adding a lot of stuff that users will feedback…

I hope you’ll enjoy them! Official Homepage for gWidgets.