Richard,
I'm working on a tool in SHtml to give you both an "on change" ajax call and
the normal submit.
It might not get done today.
Thanks,
David
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Richard Dallaway <dalla...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I'm looking for some guidance on how best to have the value of text
> field that's been ajax-ified picked up on a regular submit.
>
> What I mean is:
>
> If I have a field of
>
> object word extends RequestVar("")
>
> which I bind like this
>
> bind("f", xhtml,
> "word" -> SHtml.text(word,word(_)),
> "submit" -> SHtml.submit("GO", processForm)
> )
>
> and everything is lovely and this does what you expect:
>
> def processForm() = {
> Log.info("Submit from the form:")
> Log.info(word)
> }
>
> Now I want to add some dynamic feedback for the user of the form so I
> switch to...
>
> "word" -> SHtml.ajaxText(word, checkWord(_))
>
> with
>
> def checkWord(w:String) = {
> Log.info("Ajax check: "+w)
> Noop
> }
>
>
> That also works just great. But when the submit button is hit, of
> course there's now no-longer the assignment into word RequestVar
> anymore. And I'd like there to be (regardless of if the Ajax
> checkWords is ever called or not).
>
> So where should I be looking to insert the "word(_)" call to get the
> AJAX goodness but also the good old submit behaviour?
>
> My current thinking is that I use a SHtml.text but then mess with the
> <input> that's created to include the appropriate Ajax calls I want.
>
> Lift 1.1-SNAPSHOT on 2.7.5.final
>
> Many thanks
> Richard
>
>
>
> >
>
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