Problem solved, no need to touch the action attribute, just put the
call in "onsubmit" and leave the action untouched.
Antoine
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Antoine van Wel
<antoine.van....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, it works!
>
> In my case submitting the form is not natural at all - the form submit
> does a lot of actions while all I want is the text that the user
> entered to show up in the next page. (The link that is being clicked
> is not directly related to the form.)
>
> Now I got a new question related to this... Instead of attaching this
> behavior to a link, I want this behavior attached to a form submit. So
> got 2 forms on the page, that event needs to get triggered on form
> submit.. Guess I need to put the same hook in the "action" of the
> form. But how to do that and afterwards continue with the original
> action? (The headache is caused when pressing the enter key in that
> second form.)
>
>
>
> Antoine
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Pedro Santos <pedros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Or can I let clicking the link generate an event which then will be picked
>> up by the component
>>
>> you can, but is an workaround:
>> 1 - add AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior on your textarea for 'metal' event
>> 2 - add
>> eval(Wicket.$('mytextareamarkupid').getAttribute('metal'))
>> on 'onclick' event of your link
>>
>> But... seems very natural require the user submit the form that contains the
>> textarea.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Antoine van Wel <antoine.van....@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the replies.
>>>
>>> Peter: that won't work - the contents of the textarea are not
>>> transferred to the wicket app without some javascript / ajax magic
>>> happening under the hood
>>>
>>> Pedro: Using that I could let the component listen to onchange event
>>> but that would cause an unacceptable load. I really want the model
>>> update action to be initiated by the link. Or can I let clicking the
>>> link generate an event which then will be picked up by the component?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Antoine
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Pedro Santos <pedros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > you can add an AjaxFormComponentUpdatingBehavior on your textarea to keep
>>> > the model updated
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Peter Arnulf Lustig <uuuuu...@yahoo.de
>>> >wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Have you tried assign a Model to the component which needs to be
>>> updated?
>>> >>
>>> >> Model<String> model = new Model<String>("");
>>> >> ---> assign to the component of the form.
>>> >> i.e. final TextField tf = new TextField("txt", model);
>>> >>
>>> >> in Link Execution
>>> >> -> tf.setModel(mode);
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
>>> >> Von: Antoine van Wel <antoine.van....@gmail.com>
>>> >> An: users@wicket.apache.org
>>> >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, den 21. Oktober 2009, 13:22:01 Uhr
>>> >> Betreff: how to update a form model when clicking a link
>>> >>
>>> >> On a page there's a form with a textarea.
>>> >> Somewhere else on the page there is a wicket link, which is not inside
>>> the
>>> >> form.
>>> >> The user types something in the textarea and then presses the link.
>>> >>
>>> >> Now what I'd like to achieve is when the code of the link is executed,
>>> >> the model of the form is up-to-date - so what the user has typed,
>>> >> should be inside the model. The form should not be submitted.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Any suggestions how this can be done - preferably without writing
>>> >> Javascript?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks,
>>> >> Antoine
>>> >>
>>> >>
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