Re: [Newbies] [Magritte] default value again

> Hello,
>
> I have folllowing the exercises of Magritte
> (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte) but I can't set the
> default value of nationality field.
> Here my code:
>
> descriptionNationality
>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'nationality' label:
> 'Nationality' priority: 55)
>         options: #( 'France' 'England' 'Switzerland' 'Span' );
>         default: 'Switzerland';
>         beSorted;
>         yourself
>
> Somthing strange is that I have 2 selected option blanck.
> I have try to do this with Title option and it work.:
>
> descriptionTitle
>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'title' label: 'Title'  
> priority: 10)
>         options: #( 'Mr.' 'Mrs.' 'Ms.' 'Miss.' );
>         default: 'Mrs';
>         yourself.
>
> If somone know what is going wrong :-\ ...
>
> Thanks.
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>> I have folllowing the exercises of Magritte
>> (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte) but I can't set the
>> default value of nationality field.
>> Here my code:
>>
>> descriptionNationality
>>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'nationality' label:
>> 'Nationality' priority: 55)
>>         options: #( 'France' 'England' 'Switzerland' 'Span' );
>>         default: 'Switzerland';
>>         beSorted;
>>         yourself
>>
>> Somthing strange is that I have 2 selected option blanck.
>> I have try to do this with Title option and it work.:
>>
>> descriptionTitle
>>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'title' label: 'Title'
>> priority: 10)
>>         options: #( 'Mr.' 'Mrs.' 'Ms.' 'Miss.' );
>>         default: 'Mrs';
>>         yourself.

>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have folllowing the exercises of Magritte
>>> (http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte) but I can't set the
>>> default value of nationality field.
>>> Here my code:
>>>
>>> descriptionNationality
>>>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'nationality' label:
>>> 'Nationality' priority: 55)
>>>         options: #( 'France' 'England' 'Switzerland' 'Span' );
>>>         default: 'Switzerland';
>>>         beSorted;
>>>         yourself
>>>
>>> Somthing strange is that I have 2 selected option blanck.
>>> I have try to do this with Title option and it work.:
>>>
>>> descriptionTitle
>>>     ^ (MASingleOptionDescription auto: 'title' label: 'Title'
>>> priority: 10)
>>>         options: #( 'Mr.' 'Mrs.' 'Ms.' 'Miss.' );
>>>         default: 'Mrs';
>>>         yourself.
>>>
>>> If somone know what is going wrong :-\ ...
>>>
>>> Thanks.
> This works for me. I create a new class Tester with those two  
> descriptions on the class side and tried in Seaside:
>
> TesterTask>>go
>     | t |
>     t := Tester new.
>     [ self call: (t asComponent addValidatedForm; yourself) ] repeat
>
> 1. For the 'title' nothing is selected, because the default value is  
> not in the list of options.
>
> 2. For the 'nationality' Switzerland is selected.
>
> How does your model code looks like? Is it already initialized with  
> something other than nil? Maybe you should give a little more context  
>  

>> This works for me. I create a new class Tester with those two  
>> descriptions on the class side and tried in Seaside:
>>
>> TesterTask>>go
>>     | t |
>>     t := Tester new.
>>     [ self call: (t asComponent addValidatedForm; yourself) ] repeat
>>
>> 1. For the 'title' nothing is selected, because the default value is  
>> not in the list of options.
>>
>> 2. For the 'nationality' Switzerland is selected.
>>
>> How does your model code looks like? Is it already initialized with  
>> something other than nil? Maybe you should give a little more context  
>>  
>>    
> In fact I use the tutorial package peek up from
> http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/tutorial/.
>
> I have just saw the mistake with 'Mrs'  what is  strange is that  I have
> a new option  'Mrs' with out the dot in my list.
> Correcting this, nothing change for Nationality but he work for Title.
>
> (I use Magritte 1.0.7 and Seaside 2.6)
>  

>
> MAPersonModel>>nationality
>     ^ nationality isNil ifTrue: [ ^'' ] ifFalse: [ ^nationality ].
>
> Those the problem could appear if I do sothing like this (suppose that
> nationality is a String):
>
> MAPersonModel>>nationality
>     ^ nationality isNil ifTrue: [ nationality :='' ]
>
> And why..
>
> Thanks