hi roger, thanks again. :) sry for writing so much nonsense and dont getting my point clearly described. didnt want to waste your time and i try to improve on that.
Roger Ineichen wrote: > Fields are a fundamental part of > our concept and are the component which allows you to define > things at python class level. (not in instance methods) > This makes it very simple to work with. or not? yes, fields are very nice and its really simple and fast to work with them. i like this very much and i want to keep them. they are even a little contribution in improving runtime-performance. i think its important to make clear my motivation why im doing this (to keep you replying :D): the whole thing why i want to write a new implementation of z3c.form is trying. i want to try to make it better and i want to see if this can be done. its just playing around a little. im not planning to replace z3c.form. prolly my version will never be seen by anyone, prolly i will just give up and use z3c.form. but maybe, whats very unlikely, i present a different version, if i finish and i think its better. maybe someone gets interested, maybe not, i dont care. :) maybe it will just be interesting from a theoretically point of view. now i try it again, this time making my point as clear as i can: is there a use-case, where a field gets rendered to a different widget than the browser-widget? with this question i want to find out, if fields are abstracting widgets _globally_, so to speak. the way a widget is created from a field is: getMultiAdapter([field, request], IFieldWidget). if there is a different request, a different widget can be adapted. i'm thinking about a >>non-http-request<<! one that doesnt require browser-widgets, but different ones. or the question posed a little differently: did you have in mind to support none-browser-widgets? if not, than i see why widgets can be used stand-alone and why an action already is a browser-widget. this is very important to me because it influences the way i will conceptualize fields and therefor implement them. i hope i could make it clear now. its enough if you just post a yes or no, to save your time. :D but feel free to give explanation, if you like. :) (otherwise i will ask anyway... ;P) i'm harassing, i know, please be kind to me. =) best regards, gards -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/thoughts-about-z3c.form-package-tp19869292p20015331.html Sent from the Zope3 - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users