Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Mike Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're using the rails helpers, I would first make a list of > label-value pairs, give that to options_for_select, and feed the > result to select(). If your homegrown function is working there's no > reason to switch from

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Mike Orr
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Joe Riopel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Garland, Ken R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No problem, hope this helps: >> >> options_for_select: generate HTML "" set. Combine into select >> function. >> >> options_for_select_from_

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Garland, Ken R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No problem, hope this helps: > > options_for_select: generate HTML "" set. Combine into select > function. > > options_for_select_from_objects: same but get the labels and values > from specific attributes in a list of

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Garland, Ken R
No problem, hope this helps: options_for_select: generate HTML "" set. Combine into select function. options_for_select_from_objects: same but get the labels and values from specific attributes in a list of objects. Deprecate. options_for_select_from_dicts: same but get the labels and values fr

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Garland, Ken R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > c.list would be the text of the options. What would be the value of the options? Sorry if this is really simple, but the objects in my c.type_list are not strings, they are instances of a class I created. --~--~

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Garland, Ken R
c.list would be the text of the options. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Joe Riopel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Garland, Ken R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hmm, I'm not 100% sure I understand but this is something that I use >> to populate a select drop-dow

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Joe Riopel
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Garland, Ken R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I'm not 100% sure I understand but this is something that I use > to populate a select drop-down from a list: > > ${ h.select(name='selectedItem', > option_tags=h.options_for_select(c.list, selected=None), > selecte

Re: h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Garland, Ken R
Hmm, I'm not 100% sure I understand but this is something that I use to populate a select drop-down from a list: ${ h.select(name='selectedItem', option_tags=h.options_for_select(c.list, selected=None), selected=None, multiple=False ) } On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Joe Riopel <[EMAIL PROTEC

h.select with list of objects

2008-05-20 Thread Joe Riopel
Hi, I am new to pylons and have a question about using the h.select(). I have a list of objects that are accessible in the form as "c.type_list". I want to use the elements in that list to populate the h.select(). However, I am unsure how to specify the value of each option and the text to use fo