Grid view of images

[ROCLASI]

Ah...I guess I know why it doesn't reduce. It's in HTML so the HTML renderer controls it and not the label.
Nonetheless the performance issue in 7.4 is still showstopper.

[david]

Hmm... Use solutionmodel / DON'T use solutionmodel.. I am confused.

Solution model is great (especially years ago) but it's not the future.

My worry at the moment is still how to approach rows in the database and graphically tell them to appear in columns. I guess it is a programatic factor of how big the columns are, and how many rows we have ?...

As Robert mentioned, the html engine (ie, browser) takes care of the "flow" of your images. Shrink this page down to phone size and back to desktop size: http://192.241.236.31/themes/preview/sm ... llery.html. Basically, all you do is set how many columns you want for each particular viewport size and let frameworks (which you don't have to write) do the rest. Note that not only are columns handled for you but image size as well.

Responsive web UI's is a huge leverage point for business apps right now. Develop only one UI that works on all devices (with great performance, unlike Servoy's webclient) and a ton of components to choose from. Learning solution model isn't going to get you there...learning web technologies will.

An example: scrolling through a million records using a http://datatables.net/ grid component (same UI code for both desktop and phone):

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Now of course there are a number of challenges to making it somewhat easier to code UI's with this approach. The WYSIWYG editor part is very hard to do, the async nature of a browser app is not part of Servoy's DNA, and Servoy's justly famous automatic data broadcasting is only recently becoming mainstream in the html development world.

So while we think Servoy whiffed hard (wasted two or three years) with their mobile client (viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19471&start=15#p105151), we are definitely curious about what Servoy 8 has in store. There may still be time to catch up.

[ptalbot]

In the meantime (and even after), you can whip that kind of responsive UI with Velocity and some basic HTML5 Framework like Bootstrap...