[Seaside] Usage of Canvas' #select and #labels
Rick Flower
rickf at ca-flower.com
Fri Apr 6 22:37:14 UTC 2007
Philippe Marschall wrote:
> #beOptional adds a nil item to #list which has the semantic of no
> selection. #optionalLabel: is the label for nil.
oohh.. Aaahhh.. That's what I'm looking for then.. With that, I should
no longer need to fiddle with my array read from the Glorpilicious
database.. Very good indeed.. It wasn't clear (to me -- a relative ST
newbie) what the code in #optionsOn: was doing.. But in reviewing the
code again, I see uses of a brush and optionalLabel.. I'll give it a
whirl to see if it works as I expect..
>> I'm not really sure what the #on: is doing -- it looks like an
>> alternative to #callback -- any comments on why its better? Is that
>> because I'm not specifying a #selected call and this one call does both?
>
> It's not "better" it just saves the the #selected and #callback:
>
> You probably don't want to hear it but one of the many copy pasted
> (noone needs Traits in real applications anyway) should explain it:
>
> on: selector of: anObject
> self value: (anObject perform: selector).
> self callback: [ :value | anObject perform: selector asMutator with:
> value ]
Yeah, I saw that code already which is why I asked if there was any
obvious benefit -- it sounds like it's just shorter based on your
comment. I'll give it a try as well.. Shorter code = easier to read
code -- at least most of the time. (8->
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