On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:03:20PM -0500, Kevin Dangoor wrote: > > The thought on this is that there would be some kind of widget to > handle the repeating elements. (FormEncode's variabledecode stuff > would be *very* useful to that widget!) > > No such widget exists yet, to my knowledge. > > Kevin
Not like it's a lot of help, but I have widgets that wrap widgets. Usually
they're not form widgets though.
Jason
>
> On 1/3/06, Igor Murashkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if there was any thought put into TableForm being able
> > to contain a list of widgets.
> >
> > For example TableForm([ TextField("name", default=None,
> > validator=V.String())]*3) will correctly render a TableForm with <input
> > name="name" .../> 3 times, but I'm not so sure it will play nice during
> > validation.
> >
> > Even if that did work out, I would definitely prefer something like
> > TableForm([ Set(]TextField("name", default=None,
> > validator=V.String())], count=3) ]), with a default count being 3, but
> > it could be a list of any size (and maybe it could ignore completely
> > empty rows). If it's a set, it could also render <input name="name[]"
> > .../> since that's how DOM handles form input arrays.
> >
> > Or maybe something else could be done. I just think there should be an
> > easy way to have a variable # of fields, without having to hack stuff
> > like <input name="name1" /> ... <input name="name2" /> .. etc. At the
> > same time, when using the form for something like datacontroller's add
> > method we'd want to be able to specify the # of times a set could be
> > output.
> >
> > So Set([TextField("first_name", default=None, validator=V.String()),
> > TextField("last_name", default=None, validator=V.String())], count=3)
> > could produce:
> > <input type="text" name="first_name[]" /> <input type="text"
> > name="last_name[]" />
> > <input type="text" name="first_name[]" /> <input type="text"
> > name="last_name[]" />
> > <input type="text" name="first_name[]" /> <input type="text"
> > name="last_name[]" />
> >
> > Then all the validators would be run and errors could be displayed next
> > to the appropriate row, and with an option like emptyList = True, we
> > could ignore rows that aren't filled out.
> >
> >
>
>
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