On Apr 16, 2007, at 6:16 PM, George Sakkis wrote: (...) > >>> Initially I was doing it all in >>> Javascript, without any redirect, but it was messy and it >>> essentially >>> replicated the way TG fills in automatically a form given a >>> model. Is >>> there a better pattern for incrementally filling a form ? >> >> I would do it client-side with javascript. In what sense was it >> messy? > > As I said, it replicates the form filling logic that comes for free > with TG. Example: given an ID for some model, fetch (using JSON) the > respective record (and perhaps other children records), and for each > field of the record find the respective form widget and fill in the > respective value in the appropriate way for the widget (e.g. for a > text field set the value attribute, for a textarea set innerHTML, > etc.). Add nested and repeating widgets in the mix and you have a very > messy, semi-working javascript clone of TG.widgets :)
Yep, that's messy. I though you were aiming a something simpler like updating a select field or such... :/ > > It would be useful though if this part of TG was ported in javascript > in a generic, reusable way, but my knowledge of the language is very > limited so I can't tell if it's even possible. There's a thread going on discussing the possibility of a js template engine... If that ever comes into existence and is compatible with Buffet, it should be easy to integrate into TW... anyway, dreaming is easy... :) Alberto --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
