> > 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.
Didn't know about that trick, thanks! > 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. May be. Unfortunately I don't have any good thoughts about the 'better' interface right now but only can complain how rigit the current interface is wrt extention. ;-)
