- When I use "form_order" -- I suppose I have to have it on
my model,
it wasn't clear on the video --, can I specify what will
be the
screen name for the field? For example, you had
"Pagename", how
could I make it into "Page Name" or even "New wiki page
name"?
in turbogears.fastdata.formmaker you have column_widget_generic_col
which returns:
widgets.TextField(column.name)
The could be extended to check if your model column has a title
attribute and a default value:
return widgets.TextField(name=column.name,label=(column.title or
column.name), default=column.default)
I really liked the way you implemented "form_order",
specially
because one usually want hiding "useless" information
such as ids,
timestamps and other auditing columns.
- How can I create pages of data? After your wiki example had
something like 700 entries, it wouldn't be comfortable to
work with
all of them at once... Imagine some application where
you can heve
1000 entries added everyday... :-) Retrieving a fixed
ammount of
entries -- I default to 50 entries -- grants me a fixed
ammount of
time to render a page, no matter how many entries there
are on the
database. Using it freely will make rendering time
increase, hence
diminish the productivity of the person (people) using the
system...
The grid you saw in the demo consists of 23 lines of codes.It's a
starting point. This can (and will) be able to handle things like
paging, defaulting to fx. 20 items in a view. More rows than that,
and you get a table footer with previous/back buttons, a 'page
<textfield> 3</textfield>out of 6' label and a drop-down where you
can select how many item to show per page (20, 50, 100, 200,etc)
- Last, but not least important, how will I18N work here?
About Forms:
- It really gave me the idea of putting an attribute
'error_message'
into each Widget so that form validation could be more
verbose when
showing the form back to the user, so that he knows what is
wrong... For FormTable, I believe the message could go
on the same
column the widget itself is shown, after a "<br />",
putting it on
the line below the field the user filled -- and in red? ;-)
- The default is OK to be maintained and in fact it is
*very* helpful,
but again, how to I18Nize it? ;-)
I am seriously considering delaying a delivery to use this CRUD
mechanism...
I think it will be more "professional" ;-)
And, by the way, with your first video I also had to turn the sound
to the
maximum. Isn't there any recording set you can do to make it
louder? :-) I
jumped from my chair 5 times with ICQ/MSN noises of people getting
in and out
because I had the volume at the maximum to hear your videocast :-)
--
Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ronald
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Ronald Jaramillo
mail: ronald AT checkandshare DOT com
blog: http://www.checkandshare.com/blog
