Re: [FunFormKit-discuss] FunFormKit: MultiCheckboxField and CheckboxField hacks

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 21:38, Edmund Lian wrote:
> I've hacked MultiCheckboxField and CheckboxField to properly support the
> static and hide options. Static multi and single checkbox fields actually
> appear as greyed-out checkboxes, etc.  I had to modify SimpleHTMLGen a
> little to support these changes. The change is that the html function is
> now able to generate valueless tags like "disabled".

Cool.  Will the static versions work in older browsers (i.e., NS4)?

> In addition, I've modified CheckboxField to return 1 and 0 (true and false)
> rather than "on" and 0, to be consistent with both documentation and
> expectations.
> 
> These are relatively largish changes that will break code that depends on
> getting "on" and 0 from CheckboxFields, so I'm not sure if I should check
> them into CVS.

Anyone who is checking for "on" specifically is being silly.  What you
describe sounds just fine.  Go ahead with the checkin... if there's
problems, I don't mind sorting them out in CVS. 

  Ian