[Seaside] Some harder questions

Avi Bryant avi@beta4.com
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:46:29 -0700 (PDT)


Ok, sorry, before I answer anything, I'm not actually clear on what you're
trying to do.  The idea is to have the form autosubmit whenever the select
changes?  Or is there some more nefarious mechanism at work here?

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jim Benson wrote:

> Usually I just ask simple questions. I've been playing by the Seaside for
> the last couple of weeks. It's been very entertaining.
>
> Now it's time to buckle down and get to work.
>
> I have an application in mind. Basically, it's a three pane browser, two
> scrolling lists side by side in the upper pane, and a text area in the lower
> half of the window, similar in concept to the Squeak browser at:
>
> http://swiki.gsug.org:8888/browser/
>
> In the Squeak browser implementation, there's some javascript in there to
> help, and it uses frames (Avi close your eyes).
>
> My first thought was to be sneaky and try to get away with just storing my
> list items in a form with <select> <option> and then using an expression
> like:
>
> onchange="location.href=
> &#13;&#10;(form.select.options[form.select.selectedIndex].value)
>
> with the <select> statement being named "select". This would kind of
> automagically take care of things for me, and doesn't seem overly onerous.
> The problem with that is that Seaside kind of comandeers the name of the
> select tag when it goes dynamic, so that it is difficult to refer to the
> select statement by the name attribute. Of course, what I really want to do
> is just submit the form, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. The
> select tag is dynamic in the form:
>
> html
> ^ #( ... ( form ...
>      ( select  size: 10 name: '@sectionName/sectionList'
>      ( option sea:id: sectionName '[sectionName.value.headerString]' ... )))
>
> ...)
>
>
> So there are a couple questions here.
>
> Is there a way to come up with "the magic browser" that is pure HTML, or
> short of that, really simple nasty stuff I can spit out from the server
> side?
>
> What is the general case for doing this? Assuming that Seaside takes the
> name attribute for itself, how do you latch onto it in those nasty other
> languages? What about javascript in general, how do you deal with it from
> the Seaside?
>
> Jim
>
>
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