[albatross-users] Albatross

[Michael Rembach]

Hi all,

For simple pagination the prev / next model works well.

What I had in mind for the tabbed notebook is that when you submit the
form, it goes to the server and retrieves say, 2 tables of information,
for example client info and product info and the tabbed notebook can be
able to switch from one to the other without having to go back to the
server.


> Ben had a different idea - he said that Michael might have being
> referring to the fact that the pagination is currently only able to do
> prev/next page.
>
> The reason for only looking one page ahead is to avoid having to
> retrieve all elements from a sequence in order to count the length of
> the sequence.  Some sequences (like database cursors) are not able to
> provide a length - so determining the length can take a long time.
>
> Thinking out loud:
>
> It occurs to me that we might be able to extend the ListIterator and
> <al-for> tag to allow it to handle sequences where the length is
> known.  In these cases it would be possible to provide a sequence of
> page bookmarks (via the ListIterator).  The page bookmark sequence
> could be iterated over to display URL's which jump to specific pages.
> A bit like the page URL's on google search results.
>
> - Dave
>
> --
> http://www.object-craft.com.au

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Michael Rembach