health record beginnings

[mansperger]

I'm not a developer, but a User Interface designer and I've been trying to learn the basics of Laszlo. The Health Record app is a basic form for people to keep track of their health records and I've used just a piece of a record to build my first faux-app out of. The app doesn't work, but is a visual protoype I thought I'd submit as I'm just happy to have it displaying properly. Someday I may be able to get a real developer to build a more functional piece with more elegant code (and I'm willing to bet much less code).

:REM

[antun]

Nice work! That's up:

http://www.mylaszlo.com/lps-2.1.2/mansperger/healthRecord/healthRecord.lzx

[mansperger]

Thanks Antun, now to figure out how to make it "prettier" and to finish off the additional tabs ... I have to admit this is a heck of a lot of fun. :)

[raven]

I saw in your app that you have dropdowns for states. Is it possible to share resources across tabelements?

I'm assuming that you may be able to, but I thought I would drop a suggestion:)

M@

[mansperger]

"Is it possible to share resources across tabelements?"

I assume it to be possible. Currently its' a hardcoded widget but I don't see a reason why it couldn't be a shared resource. I'll talk to a real developer to see how to do it - or if you have thoughts on it that would be cool as well.

[raven]

Understand that I would like to consider myself a developer very much, not sure I can yet though ;)

Most of the stuff I do is jsp and php frontend to the more complex stuff other people build.

It seems like you could keep all that stored in a separate file and just access it with an include, but I am not sure how it would with in xml. Possibly use a dataset to read all the values into it at the beginning of the file and then just drop the results into places where you would need it?

I think that I am on the right track, just not explaining myself enough. I would go look it all up, but I have to go to work, oh joy:) Besides, I am hoping that someone a lot smarter than me will explain it :)

[mansperger]

well, that person obvisouly isn't me ;-)

...I've exhauseted my intelligence already today