Lianja and KendoUI

[hmischel@diligentsystems.com]

Hi All,

I'm finally back after a very busy several weeks.
Many of us old VFP developers used quite a few activeX tools to extend our user interfaces.

To me, the most powerful part of the Lianja is the RSP page. It's fast and flexible and I think is the core of Lianja.

Add to that the built in support for bootstrap and the assorted javascript libraries, the sky is the limit.

I just downloaded KendoUI from telerik tonight and love the widgets. They are used the exact same way as the other Jquery UI components.

http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui#more-widgets

In about 15 minutes, I got this little sample up and running. You can have a look at it here.

https://youtu.be/ScNexbKrARA

Herb

[barrymavin]

Hi Herb,

Yes the use of .rsp pages in WebView sections together with the fact that the Lianja system object reference is injected into them means that any custom WebView code can interact with the other parts of the Lianja Web Framework using Lianja.showDocument(), Lianja.evaluate(), Lianja.getElementByiD() etc.

These custom webviews can be dynamically generated by ,rsp pages and are inner framework agnostic. This provides you with the ability to create some quite compelling Apps.

Remember also that you can generate dynamic content in JavaScript too using .jssp files in the same way as you would use .rsp files.

For anyone who is not yet familiar with .rsp files, they contain html5 with code blocks in them that generate dynamic content. They are very similar to .php files but you write in Lianja/VFP instead of PHP.

Its worth pointing out that the LianjaWebFramework is a meta framework that includes a lot of pre-built data-bound sections as well as full client / server CRUD integration, App center and dynamic app loading, page navigation for SPA (Single Page Applications), etc. It integrates the front end UI view with the Lianja Cloud Server that handles business logic and database independent data access.

This is what constitutes the whole Lianja Platform (The Lianja APaaS) together with the Lianja App Builder for visually designing and building the Apps whether they be desktop, web or mobile.

What some developers do not yet realize is that the Lianja platform itself has been designed to provide a means of developing Apps using Agile Development techniques with continuous delivery. As we release the Mobile App building functionality in v2.0 this will become more obvious and we will be providing some tutorials on the blogs that explain Agile Development and Continous Delivery and how these relate to Lianja.

Stay tuned.