Re: FormBuilder custom select

On 9/16/05, Alessandro Pasotti <ale.pas@tiscali.it> wrote: > Hello, > > Only for fields that are linked to another table, I would like to build a > select with a <button> that opens a popup to insert a new record and the > repopulate the <options> in the opener window, js is not the problem here, I > just don't know how to start, should I subclass HTML_QuickForm_select to add > the button after the select? Or maybe this can be done manipulating > FormBuilder's options? > > Any hint? (linkNewValue=true works but is too slow for my huge DB) My original idea for linkNewValue was to have a popup like this but I ended up not doing this as it would have required a special htdocs script and I didn't feel like dealing with that right then. > > Sould be like this: > > ------------------------------------------- > Client: [Choose one...V] or [New value]* > [Client 1 ] > [Client 2 ] > ------------------------------------------- > > * This opens the popup > I recommend doing what I did for FormBuilder. Create your own HTML_QF element which adds the button and the JS for the button which opens the new window, then have a special script which displays the form for the new element and includes the JS to re-inject the option into the opener's select. If you need help building a new QF element check out the stuff in DB/DataObject/FormBuilder/QuickForm/. Then ask here if you still need help. -- Justin Patrin