[Seaside] Dynamically adding children
Philippe Marschall
philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 06:35:36 UTC 2006
2006/10/3, Francois Beausoleil <francois.beausoleil at gmail.com>:
> Hi all !
>
> I'm still learning my way around Smalltalk / Seaside. I have the
> regular Address Book application running. I have Name, Address, Phone
> and Contact model objects. I have corresponding *Editor classes too.
>
> I can edit objects which already have addresses, and now I'm ready to
> tackle adding new addresses from the UI.
>
> A Contact has many Addresses, and Contact sports these methods to access them:
> #addresses
> #addressAt:
> #addressAt:put:
>
> What I want to achieve is on the contact editor form, I want a place
> where I can type the name/location of the new address, and after
> submitting the form, a new, blank, AddressEditor should be appended to
> the general form.
>
> Here is my incomplete solution:
>
> html form: [
> html fieldsetWithLegend: 'Contact' do: [
> html render: nameEditor.
> html divNamed: 'addresses' with: [
> html label: 'New address named' input: [
> html textInputWithCallback: [:name |
> self model addressAt: name put: Address new.
> subcomponents add: (self addressEditorFor: (self model addressAt:
> name) named: name)].
> html submitButton.
> addressEditors keysAndValuesDo: [:location :editor |
> html divClass: 'address' with: [html render: editor]]]].
> html submitButtonWithAction: [self save]]]
>
> I don't even know if it's valid to change subcomponents (which is
> returned by #children) while callbacks are being processed. I found a
> thread[1] which explained a similar problem, except the OP was doing
> it with live updates. I'm not ready for that yet.
>
> Anyway, it's probably something simple, and I'm not finding it. I
> must also be using the wrong query in GMail, because I can't find
> anything remotely resembling what I want.
Yes this is valid. Just make sure you backtrack the component you add
the childeren to. The simplest way to do this is add:
self session registerObjectForBacktracking: self
in the initialize method of the component.
Philippe
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