Forms tutorial

I've written a forms tutorial (for maptool macro). There happened to be some questions about that and I felt the need. The existing tutorial in the wiki (that I learned so much from) seems to confuse some users so I tried to give simpler examples and reduce the overall content.

The more or less final version is now in the wiki: Forms_tutorial

Critique is still welcome.

Looks good, just what I need.

html 3.2 & CSS 1+ are what are supported by the underlying java controls. This is important to note very early on.

Update.

Mentioned the html/css version. Closed some fixme's.

argh. And you make this AFTER I've spend weeks learning html to create a couple of (rather complex) input forms for my framework...

Nice job though, looks good! When your done, your going to add this to the wiki?

Sorry for being late.

Yes i intend to. I hope the wiki syntax isnt to different

EDIT: updated again. Second example is done. Only thing missing now is a section about image buttons.

This is now in the maptool wiki: http://www.lmwcs.com/rptools/wiki/Forms_tutorial

LOL, nice opening title:
HTML forms covered in fish

edit: one remark, did you intentionally leave out the 'line option' in the code sections? I personally find it easier if they're there so:
<source lang="mtmacro" line> instead of <source lang="mtmacro">, but its a matter of taste.

I had it first written with the line option but it looked broken. There are no line numbers and some code *lines* have scroll bars. I see that at other pages in wiki too.

And there is another concern: the wiki doesn't create the line numbers using a separate table column in the generated HTML so any attempt to highlight the entire chunk of code and copy/paste it into another window grabs all of the line numbers, too. (Or at least it did the last time I tried it quite a few months ago.)

So for longer examples that the reader might want to copy/paste into a macro window for testing/experimentation purposes, leaving out the line numbers is probably best. Instead, maybe some kind of font control or HTML comments can be used to highlight sections of code being discussed...? (I don't know how much font control is possible inside a <source> block, but I expect there isn't any.)

Azhrei wrote:

And there is another concern: the wiki doesn't create the line numbers using a separate table column in the generated HTML so any attempt to highlight the entire chunk of code and copy/paste it into another window grabs all of the line numbers, too. (Or at least, it did the last time I tried it quite a few months ago.)

So for longer examples that the reader might want to copy/paste into a macro window for testing/experimentation purposes, leaving out the line numbers is probably best. Instead, maybe some kind of font control or HTML comments can be used to highlight sections of code being discussed...? (I don't know how much font control is possible inside a <source> block, but I expect there isn't any.)

that is (still) true and indeed annoying. Though I still like it more with the line option on... no biggie though.

Added some screenshots.

I see you added rumble's click based targeting, I've just implemented that into my framework.
In all looks pretty neat wiki, very very usefull.

btw.: Might I suggest you update your first post with the 'correct' link to the wiki?

wolph42 wrote:

btw.: Might I suggest you update your first post with the 'correct' link to the wiki?

I kind of already did. Maybe i make it more prominent.

LOL (first time I got the old wiki, which is why i mentioned it)

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