Tom Hoffman
2007-04-24 00:33:18 UTC
Hi all,
I asked Ignas to write up a brief report on the week he spent in
Belgium with Jean-Francois doing some face to face collaboration. His
explanation is a bit unavoidably technical, but hopefully at least
reassuring to those watching from a distance... things are happening,
code is being written, problems are being solved, etc.
The next task is attacking grading and gradebooks from several
directions. Paul Carduner is modifying the CanDo gradebook for
(initially) Jeff Elkner's personal use, Ignas is working on a rather
different style of gradebook traditionally used in Lithuania, and
Jean-Francois is also working on grading for his Belgian school. I am
also mentoring a Brazilian student who is writing a gradebook desktop
client for Edubuntu as part of the Google Summer of Code.
The overall approach at this point is not to try to start with one
solution encompassing all the possible use cases, but to at least have
three or four implementations that suit their local needs well, and
secondarily to have them share as much code as possible. Once we have
some code that works and has been tested in real schools, we'll figure
out what the "official" SchoolTool gradebook will be.
Anyhow, Ignas's report follows.
--Tom
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ignas Mikalajunas <***@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2007 6:31 AM
Subject: [schooltool-dev] The things produced while i was visiting Belgium
To: SchoolTool Development List <schooltool-***@schooltool.org>
Hi, i know i am a bit late, but i find it difficult writing about
things i did (writing new code is so much easier), sorry. So what did
we do: schooltool was using zc.table directly and all the views that
had to display tables with batching had quite a lot of code
duplication in them. As jfroche needed to display ~1000 persons and it
was taking too much time we had to start indexing them, as more or
less all the person views were using zc.table adding the catalog code
to all the views would have added even more duplication so what we
have now is schooltool.table, that contains all the tabling, batching
and filtering code in it.
To use it for your container you register either the
SchoolToolTableFormatter or IndexedTableFormatter as an adapter to
ITableFormatter on the container and do something like:
self.table = ITableFormatter(contianer)
self.table.setUp()
in your view __call__
you get a table that easily integrates with zc.catalog. And can be
rendered with:
view/table/render , view/table/batching/render for batching,
view/table/filter_widget/render for the search box.
Ignas
I asked Ignas to write up a brief report on the week he spent in
Belgium with Jean-Francois doing some face to face collaboration. His
explanation is a bit unavoidably technical, but hopefully at least
reassuring to those watching from a distance... things are happening,
code is being written, problems are being solved, etc.
The next task is attacking grading and gradebooks from several
directions. Paul Carduner is modifying the CanDo gradebook for
(initially) Jeff Elkner's personal use, Ignas is working on a rather
different style of gradebook traditionally used in Lithuania, and
Jean-Francois is also working on grading for his Belgian school. I am
also mentoring a Brazilian student who is writing a gradebook desktop
client for Edubuntu as part of the Google Summer of Code.
The overall approach at this point is not to try to start with one
solution encompassing all the possible use cases, but to at least have
three or four implementations that suit their local needs well, and
secondarily to have them share as much code as possible. Once we have
some code that works and has been tested in real schools, we'll figure
out what the "official" SchoolTool gradebook will be.
Anyhow, Ignas's report follows.
--Tom
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ignas Mikalajunas <***@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2007 6:31 AM
Subject: [schooltool-dev] The things produced while i was visiting Belgium
To: SchoolTool Development List <schooltool-***@schooltool.org>
Hi, i know i am a bit late, but i find it difficult writing about
things i did (writing new code is so much easier), sorry. So what did
we do: schooltool was using zc.table directly and all the views that
had to display tables with batching had quite a lot of code
duplication in them. As jfroche needed to display ~1000 persons and it
was taking too much time we had to start indexing them, as more or
less all the person views were using zc.table adding the catalog code
to all the views would have added even more duplication so what we
have now is schooltool.table, that contains all the tabling, batching
and filtering code in it.
To use it for your container you register either the
SchoolToolTableFormatter or IndexedTableFormatter as an adapter to
ITableFormatter on the container and do something like:
self.table = ITableFormatter(contianer)
self.table.setUp()
in your view __call__
you get a table that easily integrates with zc.catalog. And can be
rendered with:
view/table/render , view/table/batching/render for batching,
view/table/filter_widget/render for the search box.
Ignas