Hi Alan,

I've seen some products that aspire to this, but none really pull it off.

My users are so accustomed to sticky forms now that I have to use 
CGI.pm or they complain.. waaaaa....

;-) You really need it for multi-page forms too.. to maintain state..

One time-saver..  Randall Schwartz had a script in Web Techniques 
recently that took an HTML form and translated it to CGI.pm-lingo, 
Check his archive on stonehenge.com

You still have to gather up everything with param() and send it to 
your database, sendmail, whatever...though..

Please let me know if you find an answer to this problem.. I could 
use this a lot too..

Thank you!

Chris

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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Alan Mead wrote:

>  From time to time I spend what seems like an inordinate amount of time
> creating multi-page forms.  I create them by hand-coding HTML and Perl
> using CGI.pm.  Because they are multi-form, I code the Perl to write the
> HTML "on the fly" as in Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm book.  But I typically want
> to use tables to align things.
>
> In fact, I find that I spend a lot of time switching between my code and my
> browser getting everything aligned well, sync'ing names and other values,
> etc.  And fixing typos and "think-o's" in my Perl.   I think I would spend
> a lot less time (or satisfice less) if I had a WYSIWYG tool that allowed
> HTML elements to be dropped onto a canvas and then configured (named, given
> properties, etc.; like Window's Delphi and VB, if you are familiar).  And
> then this ideal tool would write out proper Perl CGI.pm syntax.  If it
> added javascript verification, that would be cool too.
>
> Anyone heard of such a beast?  It seems like all the tools I'm familiar
> with (and I just put down a typically mediocre PC Magazine article about
> HTML generators) either focus exclusively on generating HTML or are not
> WYSIWYG.  Obviously, I would VERY MUCH PREFER that I use it in a Linux/X11
> environment.  I looked through the rpmfind site and couldn't see anything
> like this; in fact, I couldn't find any WYSIWYG HTML editor except
> Communicator and Amaya (which crashed within seconds of launching).
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