This should be fixed in trunk. Get the nightly build from the download page.
On Feb 16, 1:58 am, Joe Barnhart <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a simple CRUD "create" form that's driving me crazy. I want to > pre-load one of the fields in the form. I want the field to show up, > but be read-only so the user can see it but not change it. > > I've tried setting the "default" property of the field and then making > it "readable=True" and "writable=False". The field always shows up as > "None" in the form. I also tried setting the form.var.fieldname=value > after the form is created, but before it is rendered. Still no joy. > > In any case, if I make the field "writable=True" I can see the field > is properly set. I can also change the field, however, which is what > I'm trying to prevent. > > I am using the current version of web2py and going slowing > insane... ;-)

