DOM to scope

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Hi! I have two projects in hands with plenty of (sometimes rather complicated) forms. So, I'm interested in some kind of automation of updating template.scope from <input> controls. Can soma-templates help here? What is presumed soma.js/soma-templates way for such tasks?

[Romuald Quantin]

Hey Andrew,

There's some special attributes in soma-template, I didn't implement everything I wanted because of browser inconsistencies. 

You can see some form interaction at the bottom of this demo:

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/demos/sheet/

The rest is just normal use using tokens:

<input value="{{value}}"/>

But there's no automatic binding in soma-template in case you need those.

You can also retrieve the element using function calls if that helps:

<input value="{{getValue($element, 'something else', myVar)}}"/>
scope.getValue = function (element, p1, p2) {

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/#special-vars

Form is still a part I need to improve in the engine. Regardless if you going to use it not, what kind of actions are you going to do?

Filling inputs? Dynamically fill select boxes? What else?

Hope that helps.

Romu

[Romuald Quantin]

You sent me an email but I'll answer here ;)

All events can be implemented directly, check that demo:

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/demos/events/

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/#events

The thing you won't find is special implementation like what you could find for a select box for example.

Romu

[Andrew Gaydenko]

That events demo doesn't work under Firefox - grey panel stays empty.

[Romuald Quantin]

I might have introduced a bug with a release yesterday, I'll have a look now.

[Romuald Quantin]

I provided a way to bind events without creating templates, that's what is broken, I'll repair that functionality.

The events are still working in Firefox when you use templates:

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/demos/people/

[Romuald Quantin]

Just a small bug in the demo (forgot a parameter), nothing to update. It should be working now.

http://soundstep.github.io/soma-template/demos/events/

[Andrew Gaydenko]

Yes, it does, thanks.