In reviewing our plans to do a tutorial on building the listviewTab control we realized that that particular component may be to complex for a beginning tutorial. There will be a tutorial on the listviewTab , just not yet.
The developement team just uploaded to our svn repository the latest source for listviewTab but in additon they uploaded the first source files for iphonehelper.
Let me explain.
The common way to build an iphone application is to use a really nice javascript template built on prototype, called IUI by Joe Hewit . However you still need to handcode all the ajax, ie. the xmlhttrequest, at least the prototype versions of those.
The team wanted to create a direct to dom icefaces component that encapsulates that interface. For this we are building our own version of the datatable called appropriately listviewData. But we realized that we would need an additonal component that acted as container component for multiple listviewData components and that's what iphonehelper does. eventually it will encapsulate everything IUI does and more.
IphoneHelper is a fairly simple component, and a nice starting point for a tutorial on writing components.
The lastest source for iphoneHelper have been uploaded to the mooncatventures svn. Incomplete or test versions will always flow from the mooncatventures svn repository to the sourceforge repository, once the source has completed its initial phase.
Now on to the tutorial, Keep in mind that the tutorial is a living document and will evolve over time, the initial tutorial should be completed the week of June 9, 2008
.............click here to go to the tutorial page.