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In o$ 8.1 it’s possible to create javascript components just by creating a json object and do some additional housekeeping. There is a new json object editor available in the tools menu. There’s also an omnis tech note on the omnis website that describes how to use this tool. There was a bug in 8.1 when creating your own methods and saving the json object so you couldn’t open the object again (you had to modify the json object manually, commas between methods weren’t written). This bug seems to be fixed in 8.1.1.
I created my first component using this technique and it’s a huge step forward in making Omnis even more flexible. Now it’s much easier to use standard javascript components and make them part of the omnis world. I really hope that we will see a lot of new components. This process should even become more of a standard. Think of a component store that is linked to kind of an app store where 3rd party developers could offer their components directly linked from within omnis.
Web developer tools often offer an easy way to find new components in a similar way (RapidWeaver).
Do you know any js components that might be worth looking at from an omnis point of view?Hi Christoph, you may be interested to look on the Blog (on this site) today, we have announced a new JSON component, which we have placed on a new Github repo. We have been working on this for a while and are excited to launch this today. Let us know what you think!
Cheers
–Omnis Engineeringc’mon you’re kidding me – that’s exactly what I’ve been working on last week and I’m proud I’m done. I wanted to show this in a flash session on Euromnis…
I showed this project to Götz in Hamburg last week and I guess he sent it to you (the signature part on GitHub) ?So I’ll compare it to my project and maybe we can merge them…
I’ll check it out and give you some feedback.Hi Christoph, first of all I’m sorry we did the same component as you, but this was just a coincidence. We have been working on this since August, but we needed to wait for the Studio 8.1.1 release before releasing the component on Github.
I hope you can proceed with your demo at Euromnis since I’m sure the developers would love to hear what you have got to say about the new JSON Components.At a first glance our projects are very similar. I created the $todataurl method that allows to access the binary data. You used the data name property which is a more natural approach I think, I really like it.
I also like the possibility to change the colors of background and border and the reflection of these values in design mode. Looks very good!For me it is easy now to use such components because I fiddled around with all this a lot.
From a standard Omnis developers point of view it should be easier to copy components to Omnis.
It should be as easy as copying a directory or maybe a zip file into an Omnis json controls folder. The html template file should be changed automatically so it would be very easy to plug and play with json js components.
Now you have to copy too many files into different places and you also have to change the template file manually. Not a problem if you have only a few components but I dream of tens or hundreds of components.
I also dream of a global access point for Omnis json js components where I can browse and download them directly. Plug and play with it in a second – really cool! Think of itand YES… what a coincidence… EXACTLY THE SAME COMPONENT! Unbelievable…
If you have plans to create such a “json component manager” and implement it in Omnis please let me know. If NOT… I will create a library that does all this.
We have no plans for a “Component Manager” beyond what is implemented in Studio 8.1, so feel free to explore the possibilities.
Hi Christoph,
A while ago on this thread we were discussing JSON defined comps; since then we have added a few more to our Github: https://github.com/OmnisStudio – including Five-stars/rating comp and a RichText editor.
Cheers
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