I think I found the basic problem!! In my original definition of the widgets fields, I included a name="xxx" parameter for each of the textFields. If I omit this name from the definition, I get the fields properly initialized.
SInce I want a more user friendly name to be displayed, I suspect I can/should pass the values to the form in a dictionary where the keys correspond to my desired names! Going to give that a try now!! Denny On May 4, 10:08 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007 at 08:54, Denny wrote: > > I print out the 'values' before the return statement. Here's what I > > get (BTW: my database is MySQL); I was expecting this to be a > > dictionary??!!:: > > > Values passed too "enter_sandbox_data_form" = <sandboxes 2 > > short_description=u'Some testing' full_description=u"Don't really > > care" last_access='datetime.datetime...)' > > modified='datetime.datetime...)' researcher_name=u'John Doe' > > researcher_email="u'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" rawscores_recs=2L > > dimensionscores_recs=0L fitnessscores_recs=0L> > > > Does this look right?? > > Yeah. The widgets can handle getting an SQLObject instead of a dict > for value. > > --David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

