Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-08 Thread David Larlet
Marty Alchin a écrit : > On 11/7/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, what happens with my Form is exactly what I'd like to do: >> create a generic form from a Form class which define fields (with >> widgets, etc) and methods and which is initialized with the content

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread Marty Alchin
On 11/7/07, SmileyChris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I see no good reason why you shouldn't be able to use a Form > as the SuperClass of your form_for_* form. Yeah, I was trying avoid the issue of "should" of "shouldn't" and just point out what was going on. -Gul

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread SmileyChris
On Nov 8, 4:30 am, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you pass in a subclass of Form, it's already got its fields in > the right place, but more importantly, it triggers that syntax > checking again, where it looks for new fields. It basically copies > fields from a parent class,

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread David Larlet
Marty Alchin a écrit : >>> On 11/7/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi all, I'd spent a long time finding that bug but I want to be sure before submitting it on Trac. If you pass a form argument to form_for_instance like that:

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread Marty Alchin
> > On 11/7/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'd spent a long time finding that bug but I want to be sure before > >> submitting it on Trac. If you pass a form argument to form_for_instance > >> like that: > >> > >> forms.form_for_instance(foo, form=FooForm) > >>

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread Marty Alchin
This should probably be asked on django-users, as it's more about how to use form_for_instance() than any internal development. And yes, that means I don't believe it's a bug, and I'll gladly explain more on django-users so more people can hear it. -Gul On 11/7/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL

form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-07 Thread David Larlet
Hi all, I'd spent a long time finding that bug but I want to be sure before submitting it on Trac. If you pass a form argument to form_for_instance like that: forms.form_for_instance(foo, form=FooForm) with an instance of foo which only contains a basic field (let's say a CharField) and