Re: Proposed tabbed_pane widget changes

Michael Flanagan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.netwindows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Russell wrote:

>>>>Also, the current tabbed_pane widget doesn't play nice when used
>>>>in forms. It seems as though it was intended as a display only
>>>>mechanism. I would like to chance it's current behavior which is
>>>>to actually sub out the content of the pane (it basically does
>>>>DOM node swapping) for a different one, to a system where the
>>>>visibility of a pane is determined by a CSS style of hidden /
>>>>visible = false, whatever it is. This would have the benefit
>>>>that the form fields would actually exist in the DOM then when a
>>>>submit was done.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I think this makes some sense. Although this brings up the
>>>question of whether or not all tabs are treated as a single form
>>>or multiple forms?
>>>      
>>>
>>Ya, this I don't know about.... for now I'm happy that we're ahead
>>of the old tabbed_pane widget (we have this working with the hidden
>>div thing now).
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think that re-implementing will necessarily be a good plan 
>anyway. Fixing and extending will get us there much more directly.
>
Aye, which is what we're doing. Sorry it that wasn't clear. All the 
changes we've made so far is the existing tabbed_pane widget. We're 
simply adding the new functionality to the existing widget.


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