Well, it would be nice if widgets could live outside of form widgets. Mercifully, I don't have to collaborate with web over-^Wdesigners very often. But I do somethimes, and see your point about it taking control away from the web designers which really should be theirs.
However, when I am my own designer, about the only thing I need beyond what is already provided in forms is some extra control over field positioning. I think the trick is to make the api as simple as possible, but no simpler, to the extent that it can support 90% of what people want to do. For the rest, you can always fall back to straight xhtml in the template. Or widgets outside of form widgets if that were available. BTW, thanks Michele and Nicky. Actually, I need vertical stacking for most of the form, but horizontal line up for certain groups of, say, checkboxes. I get the idea about subclassing though. One of these days thinking in terms of OO/Inheritance will be second nature to me and I will be a better programmer. My first language was Apple II Basic and old ways of thinking die hard. (This one's taken 25 years so far. ;-) ) I think I can wait till tomorrow to see what new goodness 0.9a2 provides. :-) On submit button naming, I need the name in this case. I have two SingleSelectFields: 'Client' and 'Project". Each client has a different set of projects. So when 'Client' gets set, I do an 'onchange' javascript submit and have the validation fail if the submit button's name does not have a value so that I can get the project list and return to the entry form. I also have two (visible) submit buttons so that the user can either submit and return to the browse screen, or submit and go right back into the entry form for rapid entry of many records. There are lots of reasons to want to do away with the default button entirely at times. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
