kerusan/SPPredicateEditor

Rewrite of CPPredicateEditor and CPRuleEditor Cappuccino classes

#SPPredicateEditor

Built and tested with Cappuccino v0.9.6-RC1

Install

sudo jake install
then symlink the library in your project

What

• rewrite of CPRuleEditor and CPPredicateEditor Cappuccino original classes using an MVC pattern
• works in 4 modes : compound, simple, list and single with drag & drop
• CPTextField override classes for signed/unsigned integer/float textfields
• support for predicate options (case insensitive, diacritic insensitive)
• extensive ojtest of SPRuleEditorModel.j
• demos of the components available here http://dev.globimages.com/capp/ruleeditor and there http://dev.globimages.com/capp/predicateeditor
• sources of the demos https://github.com/jc-bordes/SPPredicateEditor-example and https://github.com/jc-bordes/SPRuleEditor-example

How

• SPRuleEditorModel is a tree-like collection of rows exposing both a flat index collection API and a tree like collection API (because of cocoa API design). It posts notification whenever a row is added, removed or modified.

• SPRuleEditorView is a tree of SPRuleEditorRowView. It listens to SPRuleEditorModel notifications and update the UI consequently. It also delegates user actions execution (add, remove, drop) to SPRuleEditor.

• SPRuleEditor exposes a cocoa like API (NSRuleEditor). Its the controller, it creates SPRuleEditorModel and SPRuleEditorView, responds to SPRuleEditorView delegations by calling SPRuleEditorModel and ask its own delegate for how to create a row (ie criteria, see NSRuleEditor docs)

• SPPredicateEditor (which extends SPRuleEditor) has been rewritten in order to take advantage of the new SPRuleEditor design.

• SPPredicateEditorRowTemplate has been kept almost unchanged

What's missing (compared to cocoa)

• KVO on SPRuleEditor : not much used I think, but should be easy to do listening to the new SPRuleEditorModel notifications

• row selection (highlighting) : though 2 methods are still present in cocoa API, this feature has been abandoned by Apple. They say in their forums that it was "confusing" for their users. I agree :)

• view animations