I have no major objction to changing the widget but it much easier to
handle this via jquery.
Massimo
On May 29, 7:54 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. But title and label are different things. Title
> here refers to the pop-up yellow tooltip when your mouse hovers above
> the input area. Sometimes the app needs them both like this:
> <label>My label</label><input type='text' title='A longer
> description for this field'>
>
> The proposal not only settles the need for _title, but also _onclick,
> _onchange, etc., if not _size.
>
> On May29, 2:19am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > OK for subclassing object but there is already a way to change the
> > size
>
> > <script>
> > $(document).ready(function(){$(#table_field).attr('size',80):});
> > </script>
> > (I think this belongs to the view, not the widget, but if other people
> > agree with you....)
>
> > and title
>
> > db.table.field.label="My label"
>
> > On May 28, 11:25 am, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Massimo,
>
> > > Please consider to change sqlhtml.py 's StringWidget to:
>
> > > class StringWidget(object): # I'll explain later
> > > @staticmethod
> > > def widget(field,value,**attributes):
> > > ....
> > > default_attributes=dict(
> > > _type='text',
> > > _id=id,
> > > _class=field.type,
> > > _name=field.name,
> > > value=str(value),
> > > requires=field.requires,
> > > )
> > > default_attributes.update(attributes)
> > > return INPUT(**default_attributes)
>
> > > This way, developers can customize the widget's _title or _size ...
> > > etc. much easily, like this:
> > > db.Field('addr','string',length=128,
> > > widget=lambda f,v: StringWidget.widget(
> > > f,v,_size=128,_title='Input your detail addr please'))
>
> > > Without the suggested improvement, currently I have to subclass a new
> > > StringWidget to do that.
>
> > > Another minor suggestion is to change StringWidget's base class to
> > > "object" (as I did in above example). This way the StringWidget will
> > > become a "new-style" python class. Then when people need to subclass
> > > it, they can use the python builtin super(...) function for more
> > > convenience.
>
> > > These modifications are backward compatible.
>
> > > Same suggestions apply to TextWidget, BooleanWidget, OptionsWidget,
> > > MultipleOptionsWidget, PasswordWidget, UploadWidget.
>
> > > Please consider it. Thanks.
>
>
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