[Seaside] Component with multiples decorations

[Roger Whitney]

On Jun 5, 2007, at 2:14 AM, Julien Berthaud wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all, I am using Seaside2.7a1-mb.215 within Squeak 3.9.
> I have created a component by subclassing WAComponent.
> Then I have added two decorations:
>  - WAFormDecoration
>  - WAValidationDecoration
> So my component is wrapped into a form and a validator.
> Here is my initialize method:
> MyComponent>>initialize
>  super initialize.
>  form := WAFormDecoration new
>                buttons: self buttons.
>  self addDecoration: form.
>  self validateWith: [...my validation constraints... ifTrue:  
> [WAValidationNotification raiseSignal: 'a custom message']].
>
> MyComponent>>buttons
>  ^ #(Ok Cancel)
>
> I have two issues:
>  1) The buttons Ok and Cancel are displayed two times, one time  
> inside the form and one time just outside the form (just after the  
> </form> tag).

I don't see this in Seaside 2.6b1.140 in VW. What happens if you  
create at form directly in your renderContentOn: method rather than  
use a decorator?

>  2) When I hit the <Enter> key inside the form I encountered an  
> issue telling me that WAValidationDecoration does not understand  
> the message defaultButton.
>
Are you sure that it is WAValidationDecoration that raises the DNU  
defaultButton? That message should be sent to your MyComponent class.

> For the first issue, I have used a trick inside my CSS stylesheet  
> in order to remove the display of the second set of buttons.
> Here is the dedicated part inside my style function.
> div.dialog-buttons {
>  display:none;
> }
> form div.dialog-buttons {
>  display:block;
> }
>
> For the second issue, I understand well that this message should be  
> only dedicated to the WAFormValidation component but why it is  
> passed through the other decoration (the validation one)?
> After browsing the addDecoration method, I noticed that the  
> decorations are not collected through a list but they are chained.  
> Here I guess that form owner is MyComponent and that validation  
> owner is form. I do not know if I am right here? But anyway, I  
> can't solve my problem.
>
> Thank you in advance.
> Any ideas?
> Julien
>
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