Do you think - when adding new record, immediately after user will choose the file from disk?
You can (using Javascript) catch the onchange event of the file imput and load the picture using window.FileReader into some <img> element. Something like here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4459379/preview-an-image-before-it-is-uploaded On Monday, 20 February 2017 14:00:47 UTC+1, Najtsirk wrote: > > Hi, > > i have the following problem. > > *Model:* > db.define_table('person', > Field('name', 'string', label='Name'), > Field('image','upload', label='Image', autodelete=True, > uploadfolder=os.path.join(request.folder, 'uploads/persons')) > > *Controller:* > def person(): > form = SQLFORM(db.person, request.args(0)).process() > return dict(form=form) > > *View:* > {{=form.custom.begin}} > > {{=form.custom.widget.name}} > > {{=form.custom.widget.image}} > > {{=form.custom.submit}} > > {{=form.custom.end}} > > > *The problem:* > How can I get image thumbnail in update form? At the moment there is just > upload field and it looks like no image was uploaded yet. Confusing for the > user. > > Best, > Kristjan > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.