Buttons In A Form

[Bruce Coble]

Hi all,

A form, by default, will add a submit button with the label "Save" at the bottom of a form. I am trying to add additional buttons next to the Save button (eg, a Reset button), but explicitly adding another button in the child class of my form class will render this new button among the form fields, & not next to the default Save button.

If I try to override the default Save button by explicitly adding a Save button & a Reset button within the child class of my form class, the Reset button is rendered with the form fields & the Save button is again rendered at the bottom of the form.

So my question is this: is there a preferred method of adding buttons to a form that will render all of the buttons in one place on the page (preferably at the bottom)?

Cheers,

Bruce

[RJ Bean]

Hi Bruce,
This was not possible but Greg Jurman wrote it into tw2.forms here:

https://github.com/toscawidgets/tw2.forms/commit/94b471afc50999850b87f0af467e091e26ca42a1

It should be available in the 2.0.0 release coming soon.

-Ralph

Excerpts from Bruce Coble's message of Tue Mar 13 00:08:18 -0700 2012:

[Bruce Coble]

Hi Greg & Ralph,

Thanks for the work on the buttons code. I just tested it out & it works a treat! This is how my test form ended up looking:

class TestForm(twf.FormPage):
    title = 'Test'
    class child(twf.TableForm):
        buttons = [twf.SubmitButton(id='submit', value='My Submit Button'),
                        twf.ResetButton(id='reset', value='My Reset Button', attrs = {'onclick': 'javascript:alert("Testing a JS alert")'})]
        id = twf.HiddenField()
        login = twf.TextField()
        password = twf.TextField() 

And with your new code Greg, the buttons appear at the bottom of the form in their own row, so they are nicely separate from the form fields.

Cheers,

Bruce

[Greg Jurman]

Hi Bruce,

I've looked at the code form and this is pointing to a defect. I have opened a ticket here: https://github.com/toscawidgets/tw2.forms/issues/2

More info will become available when it is fixed as well as how to implement the change.

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[Greg Jurman]

Hello again Bruce,

Form widget now has a `buttons` parameter that takes a list of buttons.

class TestForm(Form):
    buttons = [Button(value='Click here!'), SubmitButton(value='Submit')]

FYI: If you define a SubmitButton in `buttons` it WILL override the `submit` param.

merged commit here: https://github.com/toscawidgets/tw2.forms/commit/94b471afc50999850b87f0af467e091e26ca42a1

We will try and ship this out tonight on PyPI pending other commits.