[albatross-users] pagination with al-for

[Tim Churches]

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 03:25, Michael C. Neel wrote:
> This has come up a few times here as well.  The iterator class used
> doesn't have the methods needed for this.  We have talked about how we
> could add firstpage, lastpage, and gotopage methods into the class.

Just to second (or third) Sheila's and Mike's wishes for more
sophisticated pagination facilities. The next phase of our work with
Albatross (the work is primarily on an epidemiological analysis and
reporting facility) will require this. Since Andrew McNamara will be
working on this (the analysis facility) under contract, starting very
shortly, it seems like a good opportunity to get these features into the
core Albatross distribution.

Cheers,

Tim C

> 
> I would have had this in my Axe extensions already, but it's not as
> simple as adding an alx-for tag.  You would also have to do an
> alx-input, alx-img, and alx-a tag for the attributes to work.  That's
> getting messy.  It would be better to patch albatross to put in this
> support natively.
> 
> It does highlight a design issue in albatross as well, since any other
> additions of this nature would also affect several tags.  We have talked
> about instead of using custom attributes for each method, i.e.
> nextpage="i", there would be a generic attribute "action", which could
> work like action="i.nextpage()" - which would allow custom tags an
> eassier time of adding features along these lines.
> 
> Adding this is next on my list, just awaiting a response on the last
> patch I sent in (I don't want to get into a version nightmare of pending
> patches, lol).   Actually, since we have standarized development on
> Albatross we have talked about going with our own "fork" of the project
> adding this and other items mentioned on the Wiki like added macro
> features.  Because we've standarized on it, I can put development time
> to it, and of cource would make all our changes available.  I do have a
> concern with this though, I don't want to "fragment" the project.  I'd
> have to do it with the catch that if the OC guys added a feature to
> albatross that I'd drop it from the fork and use the albatross version -
> even if it broke backwards compatibilty within the fork.  We already are
> setup to have each site with it's own albatross copy, so new version
> don't break old sites (*cough* files *cough*), so this is okay for us.
> 
> I'm open to all thoughts on this, good and bad.
> 
> Mike
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sheila King [mailto:sheila at thinkspot.net] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:15 AM
> > To: albatross-users at object-craft.com.au
> > Subject: [albatross-users] pagination with al-for
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've set up a portion of my app that displays some log results with
> > pagination (assuming that there are more log entries than the 
> > page size
> > I've set).
> > 
> > It wasn't too hard to get the prevpage/nextpage links 
> > working, so that I
> > can page forward or backward through the entire sequence display.
> > 
> > However, I like to be able to jump directly to a particular page.
> > 
> > For example, if pagesize is 6, and there are 26 entries, and 
> > thus 5 pages...
> > 
> > How would I best display a list of page numbers so that I can click
> > directly on a given page number and go to that list of six items?
> > 
> > I started to think maybe I need to go to trees for this? 
> > 
> > Well, hoping for tips or suggestions.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sheila King
> > http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
> > http://www.k12groups.org
> > 
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