Re: existing cgi site, smartphone access -- WEB400

The "full" app is a normal web app that isn't "mobile aware". It was never intended to be used as a mobile app, hence my attempts to break the app into mobile "pieces" that can be displayed and managed within a mobile device. I can't use the full app on my phone either.

I have only tested it (and remember, jQuery Mobile is a 'Alpha' release) on an android phone. Curious that it doesn't work on the iPhone but I did have to revert to using a "standard" jQuery plugin for the calendar and some other components that may not be mobile aware.

The selects ARE normally rendered as a drop down. JQuery Mobile converts it into the panel with the select buttons.

I'll put up a PhoneGap app which is much more mature and cross platform oriented. I don't have a Mac to compile for iPhone though. I'll have to stick with the more modern Android platform until I can find a Mac to compile to the "older" iPhone platform ;-)

Thanks for giving it a whirl. And thanks for the feedback.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com

On 10/26/2010 8:38 AM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

Peter

I'm afraid the full application doesn't work on the iPhone either. Same issue with the selects

No doubt you'll point out to me that the iPhone browser doesn't support what you are doing?

What's wrong with a simple dropdown list?

Maurice

Kind Regards

Maurice O'Prey
XMLi5 Ltd

On 26 Oct 2010, at 15:13, Pete Helgren<pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I put together an app using jQuery Mobile I am not completely happy
with, yet. You can find it here:

http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP?action=MobileDefault

The full access analog (the web site it is an alternative to) can be
found here:

http://www.asaap.com/asaap3/ASAAP

This is a software application I sell that helps school districts manage
their employee attendance (both absences and time worked).

You can sign on to either web app using the userid of 10123 and a
password of 1234. (you can try both and see what the "full" web version
is like vs just the mobile version). The mobile app still needs quite a
bit of work for maintaining the absence information. Existing absences
show up with a purple highlight around the border but I should probably
just retrieve and display that information so that it can be
maintained. Still need to add some functionality.

I'll post up a PhoneGap Web App next and then a full mobile app later
on. I spent way too much time with the jQuery stuff assuming it would
be a fairly quick app to throw together (always famous last words). I
had some issues with the JSON/Ajax loading of the selects. There is a
"feature" in jQuery Mobile that prevents it from happening easily.
However, someone posted a workaround that works quite well so that got
me going again.

These are live applications. They are accessing the DB2 for i database
on i. They are Java servlet apps at the back end but could just as
easily be RPG since they just deliver JSON through an Ajax call.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.asaap.com
www.opensource4i.com

On 10/24/2010 2:43 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:

I have an article coming out this coming week that shows how to use
SenchaTouch with OpenRPGUI. Sencha touch is a fairly full featured
mobile UI framework. Pete Helgren and Neils Liisberg also posted some
recent findings about jqTouch and jQuery and their mobile efforts.
The latter appear to have a smaller footprint concerning download.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Jim Franz<franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

asked to take existing cgi site, make it smartphone friendly.
Not just a point/click site, but data entry text (order detail includes up to 8 names& addresses which they can store common ones to select from drop down)
What works well (or doesn't work well) in small screen apps?

Jim Franz

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