Sanjay,
I don’t fully understand what you mean with ‘save any changes’ or ‘save the form’.
Perhaps it’s best if you also post your code of the anchors and their callbacks.
Johan
> On 11 Jan 2015, at 08:46, Sanjay Minni <
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>
> Hi
>
> as of now I am putting a quick solution using simple forms
> I have put an anchor with callback to del each line and an anchor at and to
> add a line (and a new row is displayed and the anchor goes below that)
>
> however the del and and add anchor do not save any changes that have been
> done
>
> Ques: - how can I implicitly save the form in the delete and add links
> before proceeding to the action
>
> regards
> Sanjay
>
>
> Sanjay Minni wrote
>> Thanks Johan,
>>
>> let me digest this ... My focus was input fields
>>
>> - Date input if possible templated as 'dd/mm/yyyy' (a picker only to popup
>> when the field is in focus)
>> - an amount input field as 999,999,999.00 right justified
>> (in India we also have 99,99,999.00) and in some countries / currencies /
>> inventory quantities etc 3 digits after the decimal is required and should
>> stop at that i.e. no inputs on overflow
>>
>> regards
>> Sanjay
>> Johan Brichau-2 wrote
>>> Hi Sanjay,
>>>
>>> Mind that a Seaside brush only determines the html element that gets
>>> rendered. If you want to render a date, there is no html element that is
>>> ‘best’ to use (and hence no brush that is best to use).
>>> Most of the time, a date will be rendered as text, but possibly you want
>>> to render some more markup to allow styling via css (i.e. adding css
>>> classes). If you want to render the date in an input field, mind that
>>> html5 does define a ‘date’ type, but the state of the implementation in
>>> current browsers is limited [1].
>>>
>>> A word of advice: if you manipulate financial data, do not use Floats but
>>> Fractions (or ScaledDecimal). Even if the customer says it should not be
>>> that precise, do not use Floats.
>>>
>>> If you want to get going, try to render all textInputs in the table.
>>> Next, use jQuery and add the serialization of the text input field on
>>> change:
>>>
>>> html textInput
>>> onChange: (html jQuery this serializeThis);
>>> callback: [:val | … ];
>>> with: value
>>>
>>> Set anchors for adding lines, removing lines, etc..
>>> This will give you a functional page.
>>>
>>> Now, once the table becomes large or you want snappier client-side
>>> behaviour, you will need to step into more javascript and ajax for adding
>>> lines, removing lines.
>>> Eventually, you will need to use event delegation rather than add a
>>> change script to every text input (because the page will become too
>>> large).
>>>
>>> Just go in steps. Iterate and learn new things.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>> Johan
>>>
>>> [1]
http://caniuse.com/#search=date>>>
>>>
>>>> On 08 Jan 2015, at 18:06, Sanjay Minni <
>
>>> sm@
>
>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have some basic questions while trying to code for a UI below
>>>>
>>>> html table: [
>>>> self transactions dataLines do: [ :tr |
>>>> html tableRow: [
>>>> html tableData:
>>> <code here for date>
>>>> html tableData:
>>> <code here for receipt / payout indicator >
>>>> html tableData: [
>>>> html textInput value: [:value | tr amount: value]; with: tr amount.
>>>> ].
>>>> html tableData: [
>>>> html anchor callback: [ self removeTransaction: tr ]; with:
>>>> 'delete'.
>>>> ].
>>>> ].
>>>> ].
>>>> ].
>>>>
>>>> Questions given the display will be as per below :
>>>> 1. which is the best brush to use for date in this case
>>>> 2. which brush to use for amount - this is financial amount usually 2 or
>>>> 3
>>>> decimals, right justified and the digits are comma ',' separated and
>>>> should
>>>> I use a float in the model (Using Pharo 4)
>>>> 3. what is the usual method to get empty lines below - else I will have
>>>> to
>>>> code for an 'add' button
>>>> 4. most important - ... so far ... this is not part of a form - what
>>>> brushes
>>>> / tags should I use if the parent will be a form (there will be other
>>>> parts
>>>> in the screen above, below and aside the part below
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> Sanjay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sanjay Minni wrote
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to make a grid like entry widget on a collection with auto save
>>>>> (say like excel / google sheets behaves). pls advice on how to go about
>>>>> the UI. I looked as the examples - Forms where to add / delete a
>>>>> separate
>>>>> sub screen comes on - that is not what I am looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Simply put it has a date, a symbol / text and an amount
>>>>> i should be able to edit inline, keep adding at end, or delete a link /
>>>>> button at end of each line
>>>> <
http://forum.world.st/file/n4798280/GridScreenMockup.jpg>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> Sanjay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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