On 2/3/06, Max Ischenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was using the fastdata.DataController to do some CRUD with > > User/Group/Permission data. I was pleasantly suprised by the > > configurability and the new join_widget and fk_widget. With a little > > more polish, DataController could be useful for the majority of CRUD > > applications. > > Hmm...My experience was almost opposite. The formmaker is very rigid > and hard to customize. In the end, I resorted to override generic > column function for specific data items which is no more then a crude > hack.
Do you have any thoughts on what would be an easier interface for you? Here are a couple of thoughts 1) you can set a "widget" attribute on a column to specify how that column is generally displayed. (breaks MVC, but is terribly convenient). this should be a trivial change. 2) maybe we can make use of/extend the new WidgetDeclaration class to make it easy to customize the output. We could do something so that you don't have to declare *every* widget... just the ones you want to override. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com
