I agree. I have not implemented but I was planning to add this feature.
On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 03:44:30 UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>
> This is the corresponding JS one optimized for bootstrap 3:
>>
>> jform.widgets['text'] = function(field) { return
>> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
>> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
>>
>
> Massimo that looks good, however in SQLFORM I can change the textwidget in
> a very specific way - I can change it for a single field on a single table
> on a single controller, changing widgets in jform like this wouldn't work
> because you would change the text widget for all jforms being rendered in
> that webpage.
>
> Maybe you want to change the widget for just that one form and leave the
> others unchanged. Sometimes, you do want to change your textwidgets
> application wide but sometimes you don't. So things get a little more
> complicated.
>
> There needs to be some way to define context for jform where you can
> customize just one single form. Basically JForm would need to have a
> dictionary of table or even form specific widgets where you could do
> something like.
>
> jform.widgets.forms[myformid]['text'] = function(field) { return
> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
> jform.widgets.tables[tablename]['text'] = function(field) { return
> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
>
> So things do start to get messy. This solution, of course, isn't ideal if
> you are building a single page app as this context you're creating doesn't
> get automatically cleaned every call like it happens on the server side
> with SQLFORM so then you start to get strange interactions and bugs. Hence
> we have to figure out a smarter way to do it where the context is really
> available for just that one form and it goes away with it.
>
>
>
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