03-13-2025, 04:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-13-2025, 04:23 AM by Alexandre Machado.)
Hi Magnus,
I would definitely use templates and let my components just the way they are (except the TIWMenu, it would be replaced by the template itself)
There are many advantages in using this approach:
- You can apply it to part of the system or as a whole, incrementally
- All your code will still work and the same visual components are used (links, edits, buttons, checkboxes, comboboxes, radio buttons, everything can be used with a template just the way it is)
- You can disable the template or enable it and have your form(s) both ways in 2 different sessions (e.g. you can leave as is for now for Desktop sessions and turn the templating on for mobile sessions)
- Even DBGrids can be easily incorporated in templates via DataTables (the new IWDBGrid/IWGrid rendering was especially modified to integrate with DataTables with absolutely zero changes).
I wouldn't look any other direction to be honest.
If you need some ideas on how to start I can arrange something (of course I'm not a web designer so my template would be kind of simple, but it will definitely work
)
I would definitely use templates and let my components just the way they are (except the TIWMenu, it would be replaced by the template itself)
There are many advantages in using this approach:
- You can apply it to part of the system or as a whole, incrementally
- All your code will still work and the same visual components are used (links, edits, buttons, checkboxes, comboboxes, radio buttons, everything can be used with a template just the way it is)
- You can disable the template or enable it and have your form(s) both ways in 2 different sessions (e.g. you can leave as is for now for Desktop sessions and turn the templating on for mobile sessions)
- Even DBGrids can be easily incorporated in templates via DataTables (the new IWDBGrid/IWGrid rendering was especially modified to integrate with DataTables with absolutely zero changes).
I wouldn't look any other direction to be honest.
If you need some ideas on how to start I can arrange something (of course I'm not a web designer so my template would be kind of simple, but it will definitely work
)