Better late than never...

On Feb 23, 4:32 pm, Benjamin Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Clearly, some people in this group have serious web applications built
> on Weblocks, and yet I find it hard to believe that any non-trivial
> app could get by without having to edit non-primitive types or objects
> that have slots of non-primitive types (i.e., edit a list of strings),

Yes. Nested gridedits cover some cases, though.


> but AFAIK there's nothing baked-in to handle this.

Yes, and I think this is the next big thing to work on after
nav.


> Are there custom widgets floating around that haven't made their way
> into contrib, or am I wrong to assume that this is being done?  I've
> been working on a "complex-edit" popover just for this, and I'm
> finding it difficult to accomplish because of the scoping of views and
> presentations (i.e., I'm having to setf widget slots in the rendering
> pipeline, which marks them as dirty, which is not good).

Your approach is interesting.

But I have the feeling that you're heading the wrong way with it:
if you envision a dialog for editing compound objects, why not just
render
a link in the presentation that pops up a dialog of a specified class
with the appropriate data?
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