[Zope3-Users] z3c.form 1.4.0, z3c.formui 1.1.0, and
z3c.formdemo 1.2.0 released!
Darryl Cousins
darryl at darrylcousins.net.nz
Fri Jun 29 05:43:39 EDT 2007
Hi,
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 03:50 -0400, Stephan Richter wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> again thanks to the great feedback we received -- especially from David Pratt,
> Roy Mathew, and Joachim Werner -- we were able to fine-tune our new form
> framework even more to make it as robust of a foundation as possible for your
> projects! New features include group support, fully internationalized widgets
> for number and calendar fields, a richer select widget, refined form
> templates, and of course a new demo!
>
> BTW, congratulations to Roger who became father for the third time last
> weekend!
Sincere congratulations indeed!
>
> Again for the curious and impatient ...
> ---------------------------------------
>
> There is also a new demo, of course! The "Questionnaire" demo provides a form
> for filling out a simple questionaire about someones Zope community
> involvement and then provides a very simple results page. Technically this
> demo (available for the DIV- and Table-based layouts) demonstrates the usage
> of groups, a new feature of this release, as well as writing attribute value
> adapters.
The questionnaire returned with errors (because groups return
RequiredMissing errors). Should fields be selected to name and age only?
If not, then is there a template registration missing perhaps for the
fieldsets?
...
>
> Paul has made some great progress recently and we have now two demos working,
> including a fully Javascript-driven calculator. I'll leave it up to Paul to
> decide whether he wants to make an announcement, but he will be definitely
> promoting his work at EuroPython!
>
> <secret>To see the demos: Replace "formdemo" with "formjsdemo" and follow the
> instructions above.</secret>
Amazing. It sent me diving into jquery packages. You all have provided a
wonderful set of tools. Thank you. Thank you.
Regards,
Darryl
>
>
> Changes
> -------
>
> z3c.form
> ~~~~~~~~
>
> - Feature: The select widget grew a new ``prompt`` flag, which allows you to
> explicitely request a selection prompt as the first option in the selection
> (even for required fields). When set, the prompt message is shown. Such a
> prompt as option is common in Web-UIs.
>
> - Feature: Allow "no value message" of select widgets to be dynamically
> changed using an attribute value adapter.
>
> - Feature: Internationalized data conversion for date, time, date/time,
> integer, float and decimal. Now the locale data is used to format and parse
> those data types to provide the bridge to text-based widgets. While those
> features require the latest zope.i18n package, backward compatibility is
> provided.
>
> - Feature: All forms now have an optional label that can be used by the UI.
>
> - Feature: Implemented groups within forms. Groups allow you to combine a set
> of fields/widgets into a logical unit. They were designed with ease of use
> in mind.
>
> - Feature: Button Actions -- in other words, the widget for the button field
> -- can now be specified either as the "actionFactory" on the button field or
> as an adapter.
>
> - Bug: Recorded all public select-widget attributes in the interface.
>
>
> z3c.formui
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> - Feature: Registered all defined macros for each form template. Also, added
> more slots to the templates providing more hooks for customization.
>
> - Feature: Added a macro/slot for the "required info", which explains how
> required fields are marked.
>
> - Feature: Added support for form labels.
>
> - Feature: Added support for groups to templates.
>
>
> z3c.formdemo
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> - Feature: Added new field "promptChoiceField" to the "All Widgets" demo
> demonstrating the prompt message of the select widget.
>
> - Feature: Increased the integer default value of "All Widgets" demo to show
> off our new internationalized converter.
>
> - Feature: Made ``bytesField`` and ``passwordField`` non-required, since they
> do not show their default values prohibiting the form to successfully
> submit, which can be annoying when playing around.
>
> - Feature: New "Questionnaire" demo shows how to use groups effectively. It
> also demonstrates how the label of buttons and widgets can be changed using
> attribute value adapters.
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
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