[Grok-dev] New megrok packages

[Souheil CHELFOUH]

megrok.z3cform.* has been moved to the zope.org SVN repository
it can now be found in :

http://svn.zope.org/megrok.z3cform.base
http://svn.zope.org/megrok.z3cform.layout
http://svn.zope.org/megrok.z3cform.wizard
http://svn.zope.org/megrok.z3cform.composed
http://svn.zope.org/megrok.z3cform.tabular

The GIT repository of Dolmen was only the first step of their development !
Enjoy :)



2009/9/23 Souheil CHELFOUH <trollfot at gmail.com>:
> New megrok extensions
> =====================
>
> Since the beggining of the year, a couple of Grok developers has been
> working on a suite of new "megrok" addon packages.
>
> At the Neanderthal II Sprint, in Cologne, we polished and released
> most of them. Now we'd like to introduce them to you, with a short
> summary of what you can expect from them.
>
> Please, help us make them better !! Opinions, comments, contributions
> are most welcome.
>
>
> megrok.layout
> -------------
>
>
> The megrok.layout package provides a simple way to write view
> components which can be included into a defined layout. It turns
> around two main components : the Page and the Layout.
>
> The Layout allows you to design your site. Often, it's the common
> structure shared between all the pages. Technically, it is a class
> based on the view components interface, providing a 'render' and
> 'update' method.
>
> The page is the specific content that you want to render. It is based
> on the grokcore.View browser page implementation and therefore
> provides a render and update method. The render method will simply
> return the specific HTML code generated by the template or the render
> method code while __call__ will lookup for a Layout component and
> renders itself inside it.
>
> for more information : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.layout
> involved developer(s) : Sylvain Viollon (thefunny42), Christian
> Klinger (cklinger), Souheil Chelfouh (trollfot)
>
>
>
> megrok.pagetemplate
> -------------------
>
> megrok.pagetemplate is a thin Grok layer above the zope.pagetemplate
> package. It allows the developer to register IPageTemplate components
> using Grok mechanisms. The syntax is meant to be very simple and
> readable. megrok.pagetemplate only provides one component named
> PageTemplate and uses the basic grokcore.view and grokcore.viewlet
> directives : name, view, context, layer. To make it even simplier and
> straightforward, it uses the grokcore.view template registry to
> register the template files associated to the pagetemplate component.
>
> for more information : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.pagetemplate
> involved developer(s) : Souheil Chelfouh (trollfot)
>
>
> megrok.z3ctable
> ---------------
>
> The megrok.z3ctable package is a wrapper around the z3c.table
> components. z3c.table allows you to define HTML tables as zope3
> components, defining columns as multi adapters.
>
> Thanks to megrok.z3ctable, these components are now fully available in
> Grok, making them easy to declare and configure. The following
> components are available :
>
>        * Table
>        * Column
>        * Value
>
> Beyond a simple wrapping, megrok.z3cform brings you new convenient
> ways to create pages displaying a table :
>
>        * TableView : a simple browser view displaying a table.
>        * TablePage : a table browser view included in a layout (see
> megrok.layout)
>
>
> for more information : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/megrok.z3ctable
> involved developer(s) : Souheil Chelfouh (trollfot), Christian Klinger
> (cklinger)
>
>
>
> megrok.z3cform.base
> -------------------
>
> UNRELEASED
>
> In general megrok.z3cform.base is a wrapper around z3c.form. It allows
> you to define z3c Forms in a Grok way.
> We chose to use z3c.form instead of formlib because :
>
>  - it's activly maintained
>  - z3c.form has many hooks for extending your form in an consistent way
>
> This package proposes a collection of base classes and convenient
> methods to simplify the integration in your application.
> It can be extended with the following packages :
>
>  - megrok.z3cform.wizard
>  - megrok.z3cform.tabular
>  - megrok.z3cform.layout
>
> involved developer(s) : Sylvain Viollon (thefunny42), Christian
> Klinger (cklinger), Souheil Chelfouh (trollfot)
> for more information : http://gitweb.dolmen-project.org/megrok.z3cform.base.git
>
>
> megrok.z3c.wizard
> -----------------
>
> UNRELEASED
>
> This package is based on megrok.z3cform.base and helps you to create
> Wizards. A Wizard is a spcial kind of a form, which splits the fileds
> over server pages.
>
> for more information :
> http://gitweb.dolmen-project.org/megrok.z3cform.wizard.git
>
>
> megrok.z3cform.tabular
> ----------------------
>
> UNRELEASED
>
> This is a combination of form and table. You often need this
> functionality for folder listings where you have different row's whith
> a checkbox as first column. You can click on these checkbox'es and
> execute actions for the selected rows.
>
>
> megrok.z3cform.layout & megrok.z3cform.ui
> -----------------------------------------
>
> UNRELEASED
>
> megrok.z3cform.layout gives your z3c forms a nice and clean default templates.
>
> megrok.z3cform.ui provides some ready-to-use div or table-based
> layouts for your z3c forms.
> These forms use serveral other components to build the render like
> macros and pagetemplates.
>
> for more information :
> http://gitweb.dolmen-project.org/megrok.z3cform.layout.git
>