[Kss-devel] Some megrok.kss questions

[Godefroid Chapelle]

Uli Fouquet wrote:
> Hey Godefroid,
> 
> I hope you are fine :-)
> 
> Furthermore I don't want to bother you with silly stuff, so if you are
> short of time and think those questions are better handled in a mailing
> list (grok-dev? kss-devel?), please tell!
> 
> I am currently experimenting with megrok.kss for two reasons: (1) I
> would like to use it in the new grok introspector interface and (2) I
> would like to build an visual attractive grok application in a
> screencast to fight those ongoing Django-hype ;-) Nice ajax effects
> would help here much :-)
> 
> I already managed to do funny things with megrok.kss, sort tables etc.
> which was a nice experience :-) Thanks a lot for the great work!

Pleased you liked it.

> Unfortunately I miserably failed to use the scriptaculous effects like
> 'fade', 'appear' and all that. I tried it as an server action and as an
> client action as described on the kssproject pages.

Those pages should state that the code for effects is very 
experimental... and outdated.

> I put the relevant
> code parts below. Is there support for such effects in
> kss.core/megrok.kss? 

Nope.

> Do I have to pull in some plugins? 

I do not know of anyone having done any work for effects. I saw Balazs 
proposed that as a topic for Plone Conference sprint.

IOW, if you wait a few weeks, code could be available.

> The kss.core-code already registered the scriptaculous scripts as I found
> out.

Scriptaculous code should be removed from kss.core.

And used in a plugin if it get ever written.

> And another question: Grok is heading towards Python2.5 compatibility. I
> read that kss needs 2.4. 

I was told the same but never checked what is wrong between kss.core and 
2.5.

> Is this still true? Could I help to make it Python2.5-ready ?

Definitely. First by exploring what is wrong ;-)

Second by changing the constructs if you do not need our help.

Do you have codespeak access ?

> Hope you don't mind this possibly dumb questions. Please keep up the
> good work and best regards,

Regards

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