Finally, .. i got this to work in a semi satisfactory manner .. thank you
Again Anthony !
For the ones who may have had or will have the same issue with the
select_datewidget ! ...
The idea here is
1) put the widget " def select_datewidget(field,value): .... " at the end
of a model file ( in this case it was db.py )
2) Then, the trick here is, put the following line at the end of the same
file right after step (1) : db.yourtable.your_date_field.widget =
select_datewidget
3) wheter you use SQLFORM.factory or not in the controller, the
select_datewidget will be by default ! instead of the datepicker popup
calendar ! but you may have to use it ( or SQLFORM ) to customise
the form you want ...
BECAUSE :
in the view, with the help of css, you will need to customise the width of
the HTML select tag otherwise, it will use the size defined by the css
included in the app.
like the following :
{{=form.custom.begin}}
.
.
<html_tag (class_or_id) =" defined_width ">
{{=form.custom.widget.datefield}} </html_tag>
.
.
{{=form.custom.end}}
The main problem with this approach is .. all the select fields for the
date to be chosen will be the same width ... I have not found a way to
make them with different width .. that was very frustrating ...
I cannot play with the different 3 date fields in the view ( year, month,
day ) embedded in the datefield of the table !
... unless someone else come up with a way to do it !! ....
Else where ... I had to look into the select_datewidget solution simply
because, if someone uses another grid system in web2py, the datepicker
popup breaks ! ... it will popup but does not show up properly .... this
may be a bug ! .. All the Thead items of the popup table show up on the
left side even when there is no float left anywhere in the css used !
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