GNUe Traffic #105 For 18 Jan 2004

                             By Arturas Kriukovas

Table Of Contents

  * Standard Format
  * Text Format
  * XML Source
  * Introduction
  * Threads Covered

    1. 12 Jan 2004  Sequences
    2. 14 Jan 2004  Dropdown triggers
    3. 17 Jan 2004  GNUe on Mandrake 9.2

Introduction

This covers the three main mailing lists for the GNU Enterprise (http://
www.gnuenterprise.org) project, plus the #gnuenterprise IRC channel.

1. Sequences

12 Jan 2004 Archive Link: "[IRC] 12 Jan 2004"

People: James Thompson

It was asked how to make a master-detail report, that has to have a sequence in
a PRE-INSERT trigger (how to fill a field of a block with a sequence). James
Thompson (jamest) offered using "field level function: <trigger name="trig2"
type="PRE-INSERT"><![CDATA[ntryschool_contact_id.autofillBySequence
('seq_school_contact_id')]]></trigger>" - to attach it to a <block>. That
worked.

2. Dropdown triggers

14 Jan 2004 Archive Link: "[IRC] 14 Jan 2004"

People: James Thompson, Jason Cater

It was asked what trigger was activated, when user selected something from
dropdown list, but still haven't left the entry (so that changes could be made
on the form according to the value he/she selected). The problem was that
although a field did have post-change trigger, an entry did not. James Thompson
(jamest) thought "its due to the internal edit mode in the input handlers" .
Jason Cater (jcater) thought "it has more to do w/wx's funky handling of combos
but the internal edit mode may not allow it either" . James offered adding
"self._field.setValue(event.text) in the replaceText() of the dropdown handler"
. It worked. The possible problem here could be adding an event to the <entry>
"if you have > 1 entry on a form, you're changing the value of the field but
tying the value change to the entry. So if you forget to add that trigger to
every entry pointing to that field then you have a "bad thing", so I really
thing the value change trigger should fire on the field and dropdowns should
change their field values upon new selection" .

On the following day, James commited a code, but another problem appeared -
seemed like the dropdown was getting a "draw yourself please" command from the
form with each focus change.

3. GNUe on Mandrake 9.2

17 Jan 2004 Archive Link: "[IRC] 17 Jan 2004"

People: Peter Dabrowski, Jan Ischebeck

Peter Dabrowski (PeterD) announced he had tested GNUe on Mandrake 9.2 with
python 2.3. The following problems arose:

  * I had to reinstall all gnue modules after upgrading because nothing worked
    .
  * xmlrpc transport for appserver
    did not work.


Jan Ischebeck thought the problem had to be connected with python xmlrpc
module. Peter found out that py-xmlrpc from rpm was beeing installed under
python2.2, so he reinstalled it from source and it worked. Then some problems
with psycopg appeared, but after rebuilding it from source too, appserver
worked just fine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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