[Seaside] Question about Section 12.2 of the Seaside book

[John McKeon]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Elliot Finley <efinley.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> This means the editor needs to operate on a copy of the object.
>

Yes, and the only place you can put code to deal with the copy is in the
button callbacks. In this configuration though, answer: is of no use. You
would need to do something else...

>
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:32 PM, John McKeon <p3anoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Elliot,
>> The editor is a form whose fields are bound to the object it is editing,
>> and the submit button (whether the Cancel or Save button) will perform the
>> form's input field callbacks first (see Section 10.1).
>> Hope this helps
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Elliot Finley <efinley.lists at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've been going through the Seaside online book and so far everything has
>>> been intuitive and straightforward.  At the very end of section 12.2
>>> (Example: Embedding an Editor) there is a note that says:
>>>
>>> Our simple implementation of IAddress>>editContact: will save changes
>>> even when you press *cancel*. See Section 11.5<http://book.seaside.st/book/components/calling/answer> to
>>> understand how you can change this.
>>>
>>> In the context of section 11.5, ContactListView is 'call:'ing the editor
>>> and testing the return value to decide whether or not to save the changes.
>>>  This is very straightforward.
>>>
>>> In the context of section 12.2, IAddress is embedding the editor and thus
>>> it is not clear or intuitive where I would test the return value of the
>>> editor to decide whether or not to save the changes.  I'm sure this is an
>>> easy question for the season veterans, but I'm just not seeing it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help, pointers, etc...
>>>
>>> Elliot
>>>
>>> P.S. This is using the Seaside 3.0 One-click on a Macbook Pro (OS X
>>> 10.6.4).
>>>
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