Re: Need Form Help

On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Orr, Steve wrote:

> THANKS!!! This was very helpful. After a little work I was able to get 
> something working.
>
>  In the base quixote.form.Form class there's an annoying line in the 
> _render_finish() method...
>      r += htmltext('</form><br class="quixoteform" />')
>
>  This creates an HTML break. So I subclassed Form and overwrote the 
> method. I shouldn't have to do that for mere formatting should I? I 
> found no such "quixoteform" class in the css.py. Is this a bug?

You can just add a css rule to not show this element. Or you can just 
call not call _render_finish(), but just write it out in your render 
func. There is this wiki entry that may be of interest:
http://www.quixote.ca/qx/CustomFormRendering


>  This brings up another question... Are there some quixote classes 
> which are commonly subclassed to add custom functionality or 
> formatting? Are there any classes which developers routinely subclass? 
> And what's the impact of then having to code against your subclasses 
> versus the base classes?

I typically write my own renderer, as i did in your sample. You may 
need to specify your own _parse().

One thing I find doing at times, because of the way pasre works 
(setting value of widget automatically) is to simply force the value 
directly on the request set request.form['name']. Ugly... any better 
ways to do this simply?

mario