On 3/19/06, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that this is going to be more of a rant than an objective > analysis, but after wasting a whole day reading the docs and digging > into magic (even in the magic-removal branch) largely undocumented > code, I still haven't got the fancy calendar and time javascript admin > widgets working in my app.
If your biggest complaint is that the admin application doesn't adequately document how to replicate the admin application, I'd say Django's doing pretty well. > At this point I'm not sure if this is due to > lack of documentation or because the admin interface is simply an > impressive one-off, not intended to be reused in any non-trivial > degree, but the whole experience has been frustrating so far. The JavaScript that does the date and time shortcuts is somewhat coupled to other bits of JS used in the admin; at the very least you'll need to include or provide equivalents to the quickElement() and addEvent() functions if you want it to work, but once you provide them, DateTimeShortcuts.js will add the fancy widgets after any form input with an appropriate class (and the classes to use are noted in a comment at the very top of the file; DateTimeShortcuts.js is a pretty well-commented piece of code, if you ask me). > The closest I got was after reading a related post > (http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/3328829f1ed7f788/a980f983c5fc1bad?q=widgets&rnum=2#a980f983c5fc1bad), > but even that didn't quite work for me. Why on earth doesn't > forms.DatetimeField have an optional "with_javascript" argument to > handle all the gory details (add an entry to urlConf file, include the > required javascript files or whatever else it needs) At the moment, having Django automagically do JavaScript tricks isn't easy. I'm working on Dojo integration stuff which will improve that a lot, but it's going to be a little while before that rolls into Django proper in any form. In the meantime, if you want it to improve, why not submit some code? -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
