[Gambas-user] New gb.web.form component

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

The gb.web.form is a new component whose goal is easing Web application 
developement by mainly allowing to use the IDE form editor to define 
your GUI interface.

It will use the web browser mainly as a sophisticated terminal. All the 
application logic will be run on the server. It won't allow you to 
create an application entirely in javascript that will be run inside the 
browser (like Google docs for example).

The GUI is based a hierarchy of classes inheriting WebControl. The web 
page is defined by a WebForm class. And you have a generic container 
control, a button control, and a HTML control at the moment.

Complex javascript run on the browser must be implemented through 
dedicated web controls. For example, we can imagine a control to put 
OpenStreetMap inside your web application, a tree view, a grid view...

How to switch from one web form to another one is not designed yet. At 
the moment, the url 'http://<server>/<root>/abcd' is supposed to display 
the web form whose class name is 'abcd'. There is no way to have 
different instances of the same web form.

The application state is stored in the user session. Don't expect to run 
millions of users at the same time without suffering.

Do understand that the web application is a CGI script that must build 
everything from scratch at each request, contrary to a normal 
application. It has performance impact.

It is really an embryo at the moment, but you can run the project to 
display a WebForm1 test form and see how it behaves.

Just tell me what you think about that, what ideas you have, and so on!

-- 
Benoît Minisini