I looked into it. What you are trying to do was never supported. hideerror was a machanism for allowing certain custom widgets to explicitly hide error or decide where to display them.
I say "was" because I just implemented it the way *I think* you expect it to work. Works with custom forms as well. if form.accepts(....,hideerror=True): .... On Jul 27, 6:50 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > Until this is resolved.... this is how I usually handle the situation. > > form=SQLFORM(....) > if form.accepts(....) > errors,form.errors=form.errors,{} > return dict(form=form,errors=form) > > Unless you do this the philosophy is that widgets handle their own > errors and they can be customized by overriding .xml(). > > On Jul 27, 6:00 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This has been a problem for quite some time, I just did not get around > > to complaining about it again until now =) > > > If I am to use a custom form (which I almost always do). Then I can't > > have my form elements going off and rendering their own errors now can > > I? Not very enterprisey of SQLFORM to just assume I want to always > > display errors automatically. > > > -- > > Thadeus > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:04 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It is the INPUT widget that upon serialization displays the errors. I > > > can see it may be a problem with custom widgets. > > > > On Jul 27, 4:42 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> There is no possible way it can. Looking through the source code, it > > >> never passes along the extra attributes to anything. The current way > > >> the widgets are implemented never use attributes passed to them. > > > >> -- > > >> Thadeus > > > >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:13 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > I am surprised it does not. can you help debug. > > > >> > Try form.errors.clear() > > > >> > On Jul 27, 2:29 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> I don't get it.... > > > >> >> SQLFORM.factory(Field....., hideerror=True). > > > >> >> It doesn't do what its supposed to. > > > >> >> How can I make sure that none of my widgets render errors alongside > > >> >> their own INPUT elements without rewriting everything in sqlhtml? > > > >> >> -- > > >> >> Thadeus

