When you develop web applications, especially ones that deal with a good amount of data management (e.g. contacts, addresses, orders and so forth), do you usually create the interface as in-place edit or make a separate "edit" page (and a view-only page)? Why / What is the advantage of one over the other? I'm trying to make a decision o...
I have the following code to create an inplace editor: new Ajax.InPlaceEditor('artifact_pretty_display_date_110_in_place_editor', '/artifacts/set_artifact_pretty_display_date/110', {evalScripts:true}) The response looks good to after I change a date: Element.update("artifact_pretty_display_date_110_in_place_editor", "12/06/2008"); El...
I'm using Prototype in my Rails project to do in-place editing (via Ajax.InPlaceEditor) of a form. However, I don't want it to immediately post back and do the update - the form itself is pretty complicated and the user may decide to abandon their changes. Only now they can't, because the form has invisibly (to them) updated the database...
I’m working on a homepage and will use an AJAX inline editing script for the admin to make it as simple as possible. The script I’ve been using is this and it has almost everything I wanted from an inline editing script. My problem arises when I’m going to capture the new changes and send them to a PHP function which will update my datab...
I would like to implement a custom Windows-Forms based control similar to the Visual Studio property grid. For this, albeit much simpler. I would ideally like to replicate the behavior of the IWindowsFormsEditorService interface, that is used to trigger in-place editing in the property grid by calling client-specified UITypeEditor implem...