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<P><FONT SIZE=2>No, personally I would much rather see,<BR>
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labels: [:o | o ifNil: [] ifNotNil: []];<BR>
enablement: [:o | o notNil];<BR>
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Its just a little more consistent, your suggestion seems very specialized IMHO and this would still work and be readable.<BR>
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Cheers!<BR>
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-Boris<BR>
(Sent from a BlackBerry)<BR>
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From: seaside-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org><BR>
To: sea >> "The Squeak Enterprise Aubergines Server - general discussion." <seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org><BR>
Sent: Fri Apr 06 11:57:59 2007<BR>
Subject: [Seaside] Usage of Canvas' #select and #labels<BR>
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Hi all..<BR>
<BR>
I'm trying to find a way to cleanup some of my existing code. I've got,<BR>
in a handful of places, items coming out of a Glorpified database and<BR>
use this data as the items in various Canvas API #select lists for<BR>
various forms I've got.<BR>
<BR>
What I currently do is prepend an item to the front of the select array<BR>
when the component is initially drawn by Seaside that has text similar<BR>
to "Select one...".. I've got code that will take the array that I<BR>
get back from Glorp and add a nil item to the front of the array that I<BR>
can then check for in the labels: code block -- if the item being<BR>
processed is nil, then I make the label say 'Select one...', otherwise<BR>
use the database data.. Below is the code I use more or less to<BR>
achieve this :<BR>
<BR>
html select list: orgs ;<BR>
callback: [:i | self orgId: i];<BR>
labels: [:org | org = '' ifTrue: [ 'Select One..' ] ifFalse: [ org name ] ].<BR>
<BR>
Does anyone use anything more elegant to overcome this or is everyone<BR>
selecting their data directly from the database items without the need<BR>
for a 'select one...' initially selected label? I'd love to ditch the code<BR>
I've got that has to manipulate the array I get from Glorp along with the<BR>
extra code to fiddle w/ Seaside labels to do what I want..<BR>
<BR>
I guess I could take a stab at writing up a modification to the Canvas<BR>
API's #select method that takes an #initiallySelectedLabel: method call<BR>
to set the name for that initially selected label item -- would anyone<BR>
else find that useful? Perhaps the result would allow for something like<BR>
the following:<BR>
<BR>
html select list: orgs ;<BR>
callback: [:i | self orgId: i];<BR>
labels: [:org | org name ];<BR>
initiallySelectedLabel: 'Select One...'.<BR>
<BR>
Comments?<BR>
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