Just checking the status of Jform.
Any news on it?
Regards
António
2014-09-10 2:02 GMT+01:00 Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com>:
> 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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