[Grok-dev] having the user select a date

[Luciano Ramalho]

Cool, Dirceu!

I'll test it tonight!

Cheers,

Luciano


On Feb 11, 2008 8:33 AM, Dirceu Pereira Tiegs <dirceutiegs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 11:01 PM, Luciano Ramalho <luciano at ramalho.org> wrote:
> > It is really a sad state of affairs when a developer needing a decent
> > date widget needs to ask around for one.
> >
> > IMHO, a minimum set of business-oriented widgets, including date,
> > datetime and e-mail, must be part of the standard Grok distro if we
> > want to be real contenders. And those widgets should be the defaults
> > for the corresponding fields, and not require any special wiring to
> > setup.
> >
> > Yes, I believe we need an e-mail field, even if it is trivial to whip
> > up your own. It's just too common in web apps to be unavailable in the
> > most basic distro.
>
> I've developed something called megrok.form, which is a zope package
> that configure default widgets (including the ones from
> zc.datetimewidget) and provide some new fields. This is the README:
>
> ===========
> megrok.form
> ===========
>
> megrok.form is a helper package that provides some useful fields,
> widgets and constraints for Grok.
>
> Fields
> ------
>
> - Email, a TextLine field with a default contraint
> - HTML, a Text field that uses z3c.widget.tiny
> - File, from collective.namedfile
> - Image, from collective.namedfile
>
> Widgets
> -------
>
> megrok.form overrides the default widgets for:
>
> - zope.interface.schema.Date (using zc.datetimewidget.widget.DateWidget)
> - zope.interface.schema.Datetime (using zc.datetimewidget.widget.DatetimeWidget)
>
> And add new widgets for Image and File (from collective.namedfile).
>
> Validators / Constraints
> ------------------------
>
> megrok.form add constraints for:
>
> - SSN
> - US Phone Numbers
> - International Phone Numbers
> - Zip Code
> - URL
> - Email
>
> It can be found at http://svn.zope.org/Sandbox/dirceu/megrok.form. I
> need to add more automated tests and then release it on cheeseshop,
> but it works right now.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dirceu Pereira Tiegs
> Weimar Consultoria
>
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