Thanks for sharing. It would be really appreciated if you would dd your information to the wike
On 20 December 2014 at 23:11, ki...@kirpi.it <ki...@kirpi.it> wrote: > I recently wanted to adopt some checkboxes in a form derived from Fox > Contacts. > Such a form is used both for entering and updating data. > My idea was to have some switches, some easy to use Yes/No fields, > with an immediate "boolean" feeling of On/Off useable for setting and > updating PTVs. > Radio buttons were not interesting as I felt they were better suited > for "real" values (Male/Female) and also they are less compact. > Moreover, I had problems setting defaults values, whereas checkboxes > have a "natural" zero value as a start. > I tried but failed to have them working. > Thanks to Hans, I then learned that checkboxes only send a value if > checked, whereas they send just nothing when not checked. This way, > there is no way to update/zero an already set value just by unchecking > a checkbox. > After some attempts, we found that there is an easy and well-working hack > (:input hidden $:abc 0:) > (:input checkbox $:abc 1:) > It is perhaps well known, or perhaps not. > > So, I just wanted to share it > :-) > > Thanks! > > Luigi > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > -- ____ http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
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