triggering forms

I never seem to be able to get triggerForm: to work for me.

I would like to have a link which opens google maps on the address what
the user has typed into a form.

I tried this:

renderContentOn: html

    html popupAnchor
        onClick: (self evaluator triggerForm: 'form');
        url:  self value asString;
        with: self description label.


any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here?

Keith

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>  renderContentOn: html
>
>     html popupAnchor
>         onClick: (self evaluator triggerForm: 'form');
>         url:  self value asString;
>         with: self description label.
>
>
>  any ideas as to what I am doing wrong here?

What does FireBug say about your code?

Where is your form with the ID 'form'?

      html form id: 'form'; with: [ ...

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Lukas Renggli wrote: I changed MAContainerDecoration to render as

*renderContentOn: html

    "added an id for the form so that we can potentially trigger the form"
   
    html form
        id: 'form';
        multipart: self isMultipart;
        defaultAction: [ self component perform: self default ];
        with: [ self renderOwnerOn: html; renderButtonsOn: html ]

I dont know that FireBug says anything, should it?

thanks in advance

Keith
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Hodges <[hidden email]> writes:

Keith> I changed MAContainerDecoration to render as

Keith> *renderContentOn: html

Keith>    "added an id for the form so that we can potentially trigger the form"
Keith>    html form
Keith>        id: 'form';

You can't do this, because you can't have two items in the same
HTML DOM that have the same "id".  You'll need to autogenerate the id.

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> I changed MAContainerDecoration to render as
>
>  *renderContentOn: html

Ok, that makes sense.

>  I dont know that FireBug says anything, should it?

Only now I noticed that you are using #popupAnchor. Does it work when
you use a normal #anchor? I am not sure how the popup anchors interact
with asynchronous requests. Usually asynchronous requests are aborted
when a new page loads (in your case this is a new window, that's why i
am unsure). Maybe this issue can be solved by using the onComplete:
event on the #evaluator and only open the new window in there?

Another thing I noticed is that the #evaluator does not have a
#callback:. This should not be a problem for newer versions of Seaside
(2.8). If you don't have a callback it makes more sense to use a
#requestor.

Lukas

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> I changed MAContainerDecoration to render as
>
>  *renderContentOn: html

Ok, that makes sense.

>  I dont know that FireBug says anything, should it?

Only now I noticed that you are using #popupAnchor. Does it work when
you use a normal #anchor? I am not sure how the popup anchors interact
with asynchronous requests. Usually asynchronous requests are aborted
when a new page loads (in your case this is a new window, that's why i
am unsure). Maybe this issue can be solved by using the onComplete:
event on the #evaluator and only open the new window in there?

Another thing I noticed is that the #evaluator does not have a
#callback:. This should not be a problem for newer versions of Seaside
(2.8). If you don't have a callback it makes more sense to use a
#requestor.

Lukas

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requestor does not seem to respond to triggerForm:

A standard anchor does not submit the form either.

Keith

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> requestor does not seem to respond to triggerForm:

Sorry, it is called #request (probably not the best method name for
that JavaScript object).

>  A standard anchor does not submit the form either.

But it goes to a new page? As I said, going to a new page drops all
asynchronous activity in the browser, so your request is probably
never sent off.

Does something like (without URL and callback) work?

    html anchor onClick: (...); with: 'go'

Lukas

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