Monday, October 03, 2005
Cascading Links: Example 2 - Curriculum elements
Another example of cascading links within a panel - in this case to dsiplay nested relationships in a hierarchically structured curriculum outline for information ecology.
As I prepared to convert this capture of a screen from the curriculum elements panel, I realized the need for a revision of the process so as to enable a distinction between data fields - in white and window displays in cyan / light blue.
A methodological note on creating these screen shots from DataPerfect: the non-standard - non-numeric, non-alphabetic characters in DataPerfect are based on an ASCII character set whose representation is not maintained in an HTML environment.
With the help of a data panel in the DPManual database and a small in WordPerfect Program Editor, I created a WordPerfect 5.1+ macro that automatically translates the non-standard ASCII characters into their HTML equivalents.
Then I used a WordPerfect style from a Style Library to surround the field data with <font class="field"> </font>, added a new element to the cascading style sheet, and revised the style for pre-formatted text display. To look at how the characters are coded in HTML, you can look at the source code for this page.
I will create a link shortly to a web page - generated from the DPManual database - that shows the various conversions between ASCII and HTML characters.
┌─MyPalace.Z03─348──────────────────────────────────────────────BROWSE─────────┐ |
As I prepared to convert this capture of a screen from the curriculum elements panel, I realized the need for a revision of the process so as to enable a distinction between data fields - in white and window displays in cyan / light blue.
A methodological note on creating these screen shots from DataPerfect: the non-standard - non-numeric, non-alphabetic characters in DataPerfect are based on an ASCII character set whose representation is not maintained in an HTML environment.
With the help of a data panel in the DPManual database and a small in WordPerfect Program Editor, I created a WordPerfect 5.1+ macro that automatically translates the non-standard ASCII characters into their HTML equivalents.
Then I used a WordPerfect style from a Style Library to surround the field data with <font class="field"> </font>, added a new element to the cascading style sheet, and revised the style for pre-formatted text display. To look at how the characters are coded in HTML, you can look at the source code for this page.
I will create a link shortly to a web page - generated from the DPManual database - that shows the various conversions between ASCII and HTML characters.