Regarding...
>> In the base quixote.form.Form class there's an annoying line in the
>> _render_finish() method...
>> r += htmltext('</form><br class="quixoteform" />')
>>
>> This creates an HTML break. So I subclassed Form and overwrote the
>> method. I shouldn't have to do that for mere formatting should I?
> You can just add a css rule to not show this element. Or you can just
> call not call _render_finish()
How would one "add a css rule to not show this element?"
I did the following but it creates formatting problems within an HTML table.
br.quixoteform { clear: both; line-height 0; display: none; }
I want to use the _render_finish() method in the base quixote.form.Form class.
It's my contention that I shouldn't have to over-ride a base class to merely
avoid <BR /> tags. To me the <BR /> tags should NOT be there in the first place
as this is an unnecessary inter-mixing of presentation HTML code and logic
code. What do you think?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Ruggier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:51 PM
To: Orr, Steve
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] Need Form Help
On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Orr, Steve wrote:
> THANKS!!! This was very helpful. After a little work I was able to get
> something working.
>
> In the base quixote.form.Form class there's an annoying line in the
> _render_finish() method...
> r += htmltext('</form><br class="quixoteform" />')
>
> This creates an HTML break. So I subclassed Form and overwrote the
> method. I shouldn't have to do that for mere formatting should I? I
> found no such "quixoteform" class in the css.py. Is this a bug?
You can just add a css rule to not show this element. Or you can just
call not call _render_finish(), but just write it out in your render
func. There is this wiki entry that may be of interest:
http://www.quixote.ca/qx/CustomFormRendering
> This brings up another question... Are there some quixote classes
> which are commonly subclassed to add custom functionality or
> formatting? Are there any classes which developers routinely subclass?
> And what's the impact of then having to code against your subclasses
> versus the base classes?
I typically write my own renderer, as i did in your sample. You may
need to specify your own _parse().
One thing I find doing at times, because of the way pasre works
(setting value of widget automatically) is to simply force the value
directly on the request set request.form['name']. Ugly... any better
ways to do this simply?
mario
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