Is there a way to put icon or image picker in form?

[Dragan Matic]

I would like to have an icon or image picker in form where user could choose from a set of predefined icons.
Form would contain a few other fields like a title, text and an icon that would visually mark the topic of the text. Icons could be either pictures in 'static' folder or in 'uploads' (site admin would preload a few icons in a table, something like 'text_topic_symbols' or something similar).

I've tried doing something like this:

db.define_table('topic_icon',
    Field('topic_icon_image', 'upload'))

db.define_table('content',
    Field('title', 'string', length=256, required=True),
    Field('body', 'text', required=True),
    Field('topic_type', 'reference topic_icon'))

But then I don'k know how to build a FORM that would show image picker.

Would it be possible to do with web2py or I have to use some javascript magic?

[Richard Vézina]

sqlform.factory() if you have 2 tables like now and SQLFORM() if you recude this 2 table into 1.

Richard

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[tim.n...@conted.ox.ac.uk]

If you want to avoid javascript magic, you'll want to create a custom widget, probably something extending a dropdown.  However, there are nice lightweight js libraries for adding images to dropdown options.