[Laszlo-dev] Problem with length of field names in forms

[P T Withington]

I hear the next release of Java is supposed to include rhino:

> Another language-related JSR planned for Mustang is JSR 223. This  
> defines a framework to allow scripting language programs to access  
> information developed in the Java platform. We currently plan to  
> integrate this into Mustang for b40. Aside from the framework, we  
> will also include a JavaScript engine based on the Mozilla Rhino  
> implementation. Later, we hope to include a scripting shell that is  
> script language independent. This will be a very cool way to create  
> a prototype, do some exploratory coding, and learn new APIs.

On 27 Jun 2005, at 12:03, Henry Minsky wrote:

> If we fixed the schema a little, then you could say
>
> <dataset oninit="this.setQueryType('POST')"/>
>
> but currently that causes a compiler warning.
>
> Ideally it would be neat to make <dataset> be declarable as a  LZX
> user class;  we could have a special declaration to declare a class to
> be a 'special form' which can take arbitrary XML content.  That would
> let people declare their own special forms. Like a LISP macro. If only
> we had a javascript interpreter in the compiler...
>
>
>
> On 6/27/05, Adam Wolff <adam at laszlosystems.com> wrote:
>
>> Henry Minsky wrote:
>>
>>> There's one way that is to call setQueryType ("POST") on the
>>> dataset.  You need to call that before you call doRequest().
>>>
>>> I cannot remember if there is any way to do this in LZX as an
>>> attribute of of the <dataset> tag, though.  I thought there was at
>>> one point, but I cannot find it anyplace now.  Adam, Oliver, did
>>> we lose this someplace or did I dream it?
>>>
>> You dreamt it. We never had that (much sense as it would make.)
>>
>> A
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> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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