On Tuesday 12 June 2007 11:45, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > I've read the doctests of z3c.forms and have to say that the package is > really impressive. Many things look a lot cleaner and more customizeable > than formlib. Thanks! > > However, what I don't know is how to read/write values of multiple widgets > into one context attribute. A common example of this would be a date, which > is represented by three TextWidgets (rendered as input fields) that hold > the year, month and day, which is stored into one context attribute of type > datetime. > > What would be the best way to accomplish that?
This is the easy case. You should write a special widget that simply renders three HTML input tags. > The reverse seems to be possible, e.g. a datamanger that splits a widget > value into chunks, which are then stored into seperate context attributes, > e.g. via a datamanger like "context.user, context.host = > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')". This is actually the tricky case. The datamanager will not work here, because it is registered for one field-widget pair. I just discussed this with Roger a bit, and I agree with his opinion that one widget can only write to one field. So the solution lies in your content component: class IPerson(object): user = '' host = '' @apply def email(): def get(self): return self.user + '@' + self.host def set(self, value): self.user, self.host = value.split('@') return property(get, set) Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users