I was very pleased last week when Kevin Dangoor ask me if I could see CatWalk as part of TurboGears.
Of course I could!
Now you can get CatWalk out of the box if you checkout the developer version of TG from SVN.
To mount CatWalk to your app, you should add the following to your controller:
import model
from […]
Now, you can change the order of your fields in CatWalk’s structure view!
I’m using the ToolMan DHTML Library to get some nice cross platform drag and drop reordering functionality.
Reordering doesn’t affect your database schema (or model). This are only view properties within the model browser.
I have still some clean up to do but […]
While using MochiKit to render CatWalk’s views I stumble upon two quirks.
First, when you are generating tables dynamically with the DOM you have to add your rows to a tbody element.
I couldn’t get IE to display my table without it. This is something I discovered after heavy googling and a single malt.
It should be table->tbody->tr->td-> […]
http://www.checkandshare.com/catwalk
The site hosts a new release of CatWalk that among other things add support for:
IE6
MultipleJoins
Configuring which column to user as label for ForeignKey columns
Enum, Int, Floats, Bool columns. The stringCol enforce length settings
host based access control, by default only localhost has access
A brand new tutorial shows you how to use CatWalk to develop a […]