Thanks Todd, that answers my question nicely :-)
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:57:13 pm Todd Volkert wrote:
> Yes, that's right. Container propagates the load/store to its children.
> Further, you can set a contextKey on a Container if your data binding
> context has nested dictionaries. For instance, imagine you have the
> following UI:
> <Form wtkx:id="form">
> <sections>
> <Form.Section>
> <TextInput Form.label="Company" textKey="company" />
> <BoxPane Form.label="Name" styles="{spacing:5}">
> <TextInput textKey="first_name" />
> <TextInput textKey="last_name" />
> </BoxPane>
> </Form.Section>
> </sections>
> </Form>
>
> Now I can call form.store(context), and context will be populated as
> follows (in JSON notation):
>
> {
> company: "...",
> first_name: "...",
> last_name: "..."
> }
>
> But if my use case calls for nested dictionaries, I can change the UI to
> be:
>
> <Form wtkx:id="form">
> <sections>
> <Form.Section>
> <TextInput Form.label="Company" textKey="company" />
> <BoxPane Form.label="Name" contextKey="name"
> styles="{spacing:5}">
> <TextInput textKey="first" />
> <TextInput textKey="last" />
> </BoxPane>
> </Form.Section>
> </sections>
> </Form>
>
> And now if I call store(context), then context will contain the following:
>
> {
> company: "...",
> name: {
> first: "...",
> last: "..."
> }
> }
>
> -T
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Scott Lanham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just to make sure I have this right; if I call load or store on a
> > component then load/store will automatically be called on the components
> > children?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott.
