Actually, what he wanted was just to override a field, and not the whole
form, but he can do it with slight modifications of your code. He would
override the form class he wants to modify, instead of creating a generic
one, and instead of iterating all the fields he would just set the relevant
one(s) read only.
- Paulo
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:03 AM, shmengie <1st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cobbled these two classes together which work very nicely for me,
> wish they could make into django.
> Drop these two classes into a util.py and import them instead of Form
> or ModelForm. When you want your form readonly instantiate it with
> "form=MyForm(record, readonly=True)"
>
> class roForm(forms.Form):
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> self.readonly = False
> if kwargs.has_key('readonly'):
> if kwargs['readonly']:
> self.readonly = True
> kwargs.pop('readonly')
> super(roForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
> if self.readonly:
> for key in self.fields.iterkeys():
> self.fields[key].widget.attrs['disabled'] = True
>
>
> class roModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
> def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
> self.readonly = False
> if kwargs.has_key('readonly'):
> if kwargs['readonly']:
> self.readonly = True
> kwargs.pop('readonly')
> super(roModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
> if self.readonly:
> for key in self.fields.iterkeys():
> self.fields[key].widget.attrs['disabled'] = True
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2:36 pm, snipinben <benjamin.calderon1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was wondering how to make a field readonly when you click on it or want
> to
> > change the record. and i have done that with the readonly_feilds method.
> but
> > that makes it to where you cant add information to that feild when you
> add a
> > new record. is there something i can use where you are not able to edit a
> > feild in the change view, but when you add new, you are able to edit the
> > field until you press save? thanks alot
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