[pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread SteP
Cookbook.Input says that there currently isn't a mechanism to initialize an input textarea control. Are there any plans to add a way to do it? Are there workarounds? It seems quite complicated, since the initial value could easily include quote characters and multiple lines. TIA SteP

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Petko Yotov
On Thursday 05 April 2007 09:32, SteP wrote: Cookbook.Input says that there currently isn't a mechanism to initialize an input textarea control. Are there any plans to add a way to do it? Are there workarounds? It seems quite complicated, since the initial value could easily include quote

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread The Editor
On 4/5/07, Petko Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 09:32, SteP wrote: Cookbook.Input says that there currently isn't a mechanism to initialize an input textarea control. Are there any plans to add a way to do it? Are there workarounds? It seems quite complicated,

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread SteP
Petko Yotov wrote: There is at least one workaround, see http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Textarea . Feel free to test it. Petko Wow, it's exactly what I was looking for. I use a PTV to initialize the textarea within a fox form. Posting the fox form saves the new text into the same PTV.

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Hans
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:36:19 PM, SteP wrote: In my limited testing I found one issue, and added a noted to the recipe page: if you're entering markup in the text area, line breaks like \\ should be entered as because something -I suspect the input control- will turn each \\ into a \

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Petko Yotov
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:36, SteP wrote: Petko Yotov wrote: There is at least one workaround, see http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Textarea . Feel free to test it. Petko Wow, it's exactly what I was looking for. I use a PTV to initialize the textarea within a fox form. Posting the

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Petko Yotov
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:03, Petko Yotov wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:36, SteP wrote: In my limited testing I found one issue, and added a noted to the recipe page: if you're entering markup in the text area, line breaks like \\ should be entered as because something -I

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Hans
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:36:19 PM, SteP wrote: I use a PTV to initialize the textarea within a fox form. Posting the fox form saves the new text into the same PTV. How does this work? Can you post multi-line text from a textarea into a PTV? I thought you can only use single lines for PTVs.

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Hans
Thursday, April 5, 2007, 4:27:53 PM, The wrote: Sure, I've been doing it for ages. See http://www.fast.st/zapbeta/pmwiki.php?n=Snippets/MagicBoxes sorry this does not explain much. ~Hans ___ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread Petko Yotov
On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:54, Hans wrote: Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:36:19 PM, SteP wrote: I use a PTV to initialize the textarea within a fox form. Posting the fox form saves the new text into the same PTV. How does this work? Can you post multi-line text from a textarea into a PTV?

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread The Editor
On 4/5/07, Petko Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 April 2007 16:54, Hans wrote: Thursday, April 5, 2007, 3:36:19 PM, SteP wrote: I use a PTV to initialize the textarea within a fox form. Posting the fox form saves the new text into the same PTV. How does this work? Can

Re: [pmwiki-users] initialize input textarea

2007-04-05 Thread SteP
Petko Yotov wrote: The form (:pagetextvar:some value:) can be multiline as of lately. That's right. Hans, this link http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki- users/2006-September/033404.html referenced in Cookbook.PageTextVariables explains it. ___