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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/how-to-make-readonly-in-change-but-editable-in-... > > Sent from the django-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<django-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
