Re: Revisiting the persisting of attributes on thecombo_box widget

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mark Anderson <[email protected]>
>
>Now that alex has made the widgets use prototype inheritance from 
>NW_widgetComponent,
>i think there is a possibility of a shared hook.
>
>Are you in a situation where there is a fixed set of attributes that 
>you'd like copied
>in *any* constructor in your app (no customization per constructor or 
>widget type)?

This is correct. I have 3 attributes that exist which on every element on a form which I want coppied through to the nw widget that replaces it.

>If so, i think i can pretty easily add this in environ_core.js 
>NW_checkNodeIsConstructor.
>It would be based on a global config, such as
>   nwConfig['inline_copy_atts'] = ['foobar', 'tabindex'];

This would work for me. This is basically what I've already done (wrt a nwConfig[] option) but I've only implemented it in the cbo box widget.

-- Michael

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