On Apr 29, 2007, at 3:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * Creating a toolbar:
> I've shamelessly ripped some code of the datanav subframework to
> create a toolbar :-). I've used the form.afterInit method to create
> it. I wonder if this is the best place to do it, or if there is
> another place that makes more sense to put UI creation/changing code?
As long as that works, there should be no problem.
> * onNew:
> I'm looking for a way to create a new record depending on which
> page is Showing on a PageFrame. One as a list of books another as a
> list of authors. Both lists have a RegID and both are associated to
> bizObjs. Because I want to do this from the toolbar, I'm thinking
> to override the form's onNew method, but am not sure how to test
> for the current selected page and how to use the onNew method. In
> pseudo-code:
>
> def onNew(self, evt):
> if self.pgBookLst.Shown:
> getBizobj('book').new()
> elif self.pgAuthorLst.Shown:
> getBizobj('author').new()
Use the pageframe's SelectedPage property to determine which page is
shown.
> Because the bookBizobj is the form's primary bizObj I wonder if I
> could just return True or somehow evt.Skip() to let the default
> behaviour of record creation take place for the case where
> pgBookLst is visible?
While that might work, it's better to be explicit than implicit.
> * onSave:
> Up until now I've managed to create a record, but haven't figured
> out how to save it. dabo asks me to commit the record uppon
> aplication close. But I really would like to figure out how to do
> it automatically (sometimes we don't want user confirmation) and
> also how to have a Save button.
The form's save() method will save the current bizobj's changes. You
can also use save("author") to save changes to the author bizobj.
-- Ed Leafe
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