Category: WEBDEV
A bug in the Link control that causes issues with captions containing accented characters can be resolved by changing the links to buttons. This workaround involves selecting the Link Control, choosing “Refactoring and swapping” on the Modification tab, and selecting Button/Link from the switch section. Additionally, using buttons instead of links provides more control over design and functionality, including the ability to use HTML captions and Icon Fonts.
I've been developing the web interface for our upcoming wxKanban product release. It features an infinitely nestable loop of task lists, tasks, and subtasks that I achieved using the "Use Internal Page as Row" feature (LooperAddIP) introduced in v28. This provides the ability to have a "Looper in a Looper". Everywhere where you see the … Continue reading wxKanban Web Interface Demo
Predictive Input, Type Ahead Lookup, or whatever you want to call it, it is one of the holy grails of a good User experience. Over the years I have used several approaches to achieve it. Today we will look at using the Assisted Input functions of WL along with the wxFileManager. BTW, There is also … Continue reading Assisted Input + wxFileManager = The predictive input you have been looking for?
Just a few days ago I did an example of file uploading for WebDev. And then yesterday I did some work for another client on our Amazon S3 classes to support filenames with special characters in them. And now today those 2 subjects come together in this article because we have discovered an issue with … Continue reading File Upload Fails if there is a ; in the filename
The Upload control has undergone major revisions in the last few releases. This was mainly due to Google/Chrome killing support for Flash combined with improvements in HTML5 and PCSOFT's use of HTML5. But somewhere along the way, we lost the simpler "I just need to upload a file" control and only have a more complex … Continue reading Upload a Single File
Here's a quick one for you today! I am working with the Twilio API today and their Webhook posts data back to you in application/x-www-form-urlencoded format instead of JSON as most services do these days. We are so used to using JSON data, especially with REST services, that it just seems natural to convert the … Continue reading Converting FormURLEncode Data to JSON
Gavin Webb, brought me an interesting CSS issue today with the new HTML Edit Control, that I wanted to share with everyone. Along with solving a specific issue, I think it is a good exercise in understanding how I figure out and then solve this types of CSS issues. The Issue This example has two … Continue reading Styling issues with the new HTML Edit Control or How a little jQuery can save the day!
Alternate Title: True Confessions of a Web Admin As I am sure most of you know, google is pushing for the entire web to use HTTPS / SSL. Even for brochure or marketing sites. And we definitely should be using SSL for anything that is sharing/collecting data, which describes most of our web projects I … Continue reading Let’s Encrypt + Certbot = SSL Free and Easy!
In the never-ending saga of penetration testing, we got dinged this morning on a clients server with the following error After much research I discovered that the reason it was complain was it ways getting that Set Cookie line coming in as a Header on responses from the site. BTW, I discovered that you can … Continue reading Penetration Testing, Cookies, and Apache Versions
I just wanted to post a few quick tips/warnings concerning v28 WAS upgrades. I have upgraded quite a few servers for several of our clients as well as our own now, and some went very smoothly, others ran into a few issues, but nothing that I couldn't overcome. These issues haven't been consistent enough for … Continue reading v28 WAS (Web Application Server) upgrade issues
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