Hi all, Finally I found out that Justin's second method does work for this case. The case I tested earlier is a 'mixed one' rather than a clear implementation. Thanks a lot.
Best Regards, -Yongzhi On Monday, June 29, 2015 at 2:14:32 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, > > Actually I used the following code in my form definition: > > myform = form.Form( > ... > form.Textbox('et', form.notnull, vet, > description="Ending Time", > maxlength="16", > value = timestring(2), > ), > ... > ) > > Where function timestring(2) returns the ending time stamp of the records > of a given log file. I tried both methods Justin Davis mentioned but they > didn't work for some reason. Thank you for your help! > > Best Regards, > -Yongzhi > > On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 4:34:25 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Basically I have the following code in my form definition: >> >> myform = form.Form( >> ... >> form.Textbox('et', form.notnull, vet, >> description="Ending Time", >> maxlength="16", >> value = value_End >> ), >> ... >> ) >> >> Where 'et' returns a Ending Time string. I have a real-time monitoring >> tool which gathers metrics then dumps the record with time stamp into a >> log. When webpy starts, it will scan that log file and filter out both the >> starting time & ending time of the records. These two strings would be >> shown in two Textbox as guideline. Since the monitoring tool keeps running >> and new records would be appended into the log file, I hope this >> information would be updated in every page load. Otherwise an old time >> stamp may confused the users. >> >> How can I force this textbox field to be updated on every page load? I >> found out a similar discussion but the trick doesn't work for my case. >> Thanks a lot. >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/webpy/47COULPAOuY >> >> Best Regards, >> -Yongzhi >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
