Re: [Modus-devs] HTML SELECT, WAS: Collections of content objects and performance

[Sean A C. <se...@co...>]

On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 08:58 US/Pacific, Nathan Dintenfass wrote:
> Yes, what does an HTML SELECT have to do with a data descriptor??  OK, 
> I
> should have said that the categoryPicker manifests itself as a form 
> widget
> with an HTML SELECT.

OK, I can see where you're going with this now (and you know I don't 
like that approach :)

> <field name="type"
> label="Type"
> type="org.bacfug.modus.fields.picklist">
>    <options>
>       <option value="normal" label="Normal"/>
>       <option value="special" label="Special"/>
>    </options>
> </field>
>
> I have mixed feelings about it.  When I had to build the 
> categoryPicker it
> felt "dirty" -- I didn't want to have go build new field types every 
> time I
> just wanted a discrete list to choose from for a given field.

Hmm... I guess the conceptual question is: do you want the persistent 
implementation to be 0, 1, .., n (i.e., an integer) or a string?

I can see how the 'simplicity' argument leans toward definition inline 
as a string.

I don't really like it but I can't think of a better way off-hand... 
I'll give it some more thought.

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