World: r3wp

I get a red line, which is deeper than specified

I want to hide the widget so, I really want to set it to 0x0

what about:

	text "blah" false

Hmm.  That works

Can I put that in the widget definition?

show?: false

I'm using these hidden widgets to controll the low, high range of 
acceptable values in a widget, and to provide them with database 
field names

ie.form validation and not field validation

Seems an obscure way of doing it ...

It allows a user to define a template like this:


label "Tender joint count? (0-28)" outcome "tender28" ifield  low-range 
"0" hi-range "28" return

so, outcome refers to the database field, and the user has integer 
field for the data, with a low range of  0, and a high range of 28

I guess I could use a custom widget and use options instead

or a spinner?

takes too many clicks

you have to highlight a spinner and type over it

extra work

then add spinner to hilight-on-focus and they can just type overtype 
the value directly.

I think I created this dialect pre-spinner days :)

Does a spinner allow blank field to start off with ?  Trying to avoid 
users accepting default values

Not at the moment. Should it? And if so, should it let them leave 
the widget without entering a value?

Well, I don't want to present a template with prefilled values

because then the user doesn't know which ones they filled in or not

Hmm.  Adding show?: false to the widget definition is not helping.

I guess the other reason I don't like using spinners in data entry 
forms is that it forces the user to switch from keyboard to mouse

Unless the spinner also accepts cursor keys

Agreed. It's one of the things my users have asked for (especially 
on drop-list/edit-list).

Guess my fix is going to be to add 'false to all the templates I 
have to hide the widgets in question

show?: false *should* work, haven't tracked down why not yet. Also, 
if you're going to be placing "hidden" widgets consider using box 
with a 0x0 size. This involved less processing and lets you use the 
data facet without having to "hide" the widget per sa. e.g.

	box 0x0 data "Text"

does what you want.

it would mean changing all the form processing logic which currenlty 
looks at the text facet

and also again all the templates

This should do the trick then:


 append-widget [outcome: make rebgui/subface [size: 0x0 init: none]]

	display "" [outcome "blah"]

BTW, what changes are you having to add back in every time you do 
an SVN sync? I'll look at incorporating the more generic ones.

basically error trapping

though my changes are getting fewer and fewer as rebgui improves 
:)

in 'current-word, add a check for series? str

in 'edit-text, add an attempt around the caret handling

A list of your changes would be good, might help to nail the remaining 
problems.

Ah, beat me to it.

How curious, I've just discovered that hilight-on-focus doesn't work 
with align: right. Need to fix this (for spinner).

I also redefined spellchecker ... to do other things

but I need to revert that back to yours

I've also got a sparker widget

sparkline widget

Which does what? ;)

http://synapsedirect.com/forums/permalink/3012/3046/ShowThread.aspx#3046

A sparkline is a graphic intense object of word size

I've got about 30 of these mini graphs to display patient status 
on multiple parameters

Probably not something that will ever be part of the base release, 
but feel free to check it in to SVN and add an entry to WidgetList. 
The pie-chart widget and Robert's chart widget probably fall into 
the same category. I'll eventually figure out a good way of providing 
a base + optional widgets download facility. What I really want is 
a checklist of widgets to download which dynamically builds a tailored 
%rebgui.r ... sort of a "would you like fries with that" type facility.

have a file named custom-widgets.r ??

Something like that. I'm about 10 minutes away from uploading all 
the changes we've been discussing (text size fix, spinner fixes, 
hilight-on-focus fix).