New wigbi.com and wigbi.com/demos up soon

I have rewritten wigbi.com and wigbi.com/demos and will release them together with Wigbi 0.99.2.

The new versions of the web sites feature the possibility to rate and discuss various parts of the page. The demo site lets visitors discuss and rate each class that is included in the Wigbi framework, while the official site, for now, lets visitors discuss and rate the various video tutorials that are available.

The new official web site also makes use of the new RssFeedEntryList control to display feeds from the WordPress blog.

New controls and seeds

The Wigbi 0.99.2 release contains a few new controls and seeds, which will be demonstrated at http://www.wigbi.com/demos as soon as the release is up.

New seeds:

• Activity – a general activity with a name, description, location etc.
• City – a general city with a name, coordinates etc.
• Comment – a general comment that can be applied to anything at all
• Country – a general country with a name, coordinates etc.
• Forum, ForumThread & ForumThreadEntry – a full forum data model
• Location – a general location with a name and coordinates

New controls:

• CommentForm – comment just about anything
• ObjectList – easily list any objects
• RssFeedEntryList – list entries from any RSS feed
• TextHighlightExtender – highlight certain parts of a text

New Comment seed and CommentForm control

I have created two new handy classes that makes it possible to comment “anything” on a site; the Comment seed and the CommentForm control.

Basically, the Comment class is really general and defines the optional name, e-mail and web site of the author as well as a comment text. It can also be strongly bound to a User seed if this is preferred instead.

The CommentForm works just like the HtmlContentForm – it is a really simple form that can be used to edit and create Comment objects. By default, it has no requirements on any field input, but this can be easily handled manually.

These two classes will be available in the Wigbi 0.99.2 release, which is up soon.

Together with the release, the Wigbi Demos will introduce commenting of all demos, which will make it possible for you to discuss each class, give eachother  tips & tricks, provide feedback etc.