Thursday, April 22, 2010

Slip Cover, Integrated View Editor for DesktopCouch

I removed the ViewDesignerDialog, and changed it to a ViewDesignerBox. Basically, a widget that is now embedded into Slip Cover. I also wrote some code to extract the views that currently exist in a database, and offer those under "Views" so you can click on them and see the views map function, and the views reduce function if it has one.

Besides editing views and trying out your edits, this lets you look at the databases you have and see how they work. In the example above, you can see how the views for your contacts are set up. Handy if you want a similar feature in one of your databases.



This screenshot shows two things. First, it shows the view I constructed to get the record type for each record in a database, and also whether the record has been deleted. It's a bit "meta", but the purpose of this is visible in the Record Types list. I use the view to list out the record types, and how many records are deleted and how many active.

Still a few missing features:
  1. The "Create View" button doesn't work yet (though shouldn't be too very hard to make)
  2. "Save View" also doesn't work yet.
  3. I want to add options for executing your view, such as Group and such.
  4. I want to add a bit more data about each database, and whether you can sync it or not. I'm thinking about doing this on the server info tab, maybe an editable DictionaryGrid?
Also, in terms of quickly-widgets, I hate writing the same notebook code for tabbed interfaces over and over again. We should have a quidget that makes it easy and fun, and handles close buttons on the tabs, has a free document menu, and has alt # navigation to documents.

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