On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:38:30PM -0500, Charles Brandt wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could offer advice or an example (if handy) for
> creating a DateWidget using the form2 package.  I'm thinking of something
> along the lines of 3 SingleSelectWidgets grouped together (each representing
> day, month, and year).  This lead me to investigate the WidgetList, but I'm
> having a hard time understanding how use it.

WidgetList is not what you want (it's also broken in the 1.0b1
release).  You probably want to subclass from CompositeWidget.  Here
is a rough outline:

class DateWidget(CompositeWidget):

    def __init__(self, name, value=None, **kwargs):
        CompositeWidget.__init__(self, name, value, **kwargs)
        [... argument checking; split value into year, month, day ...]
        self.add(SingleSelectWidget, "year", value=year,
                 options=[...])
        self.add(SingleSelectWidget, "month", value=month,
                 options=[...])
        self.add(SingleSelectWidget, "day", value=day,
                 options=[...])

    def _parse(self, request):
        CompositeWidget._parse(self, request)
        if self.get_error():
            return
        year = self['year']
        month = self['month']
        day = self['day']
        [... error checking ...]
        self.value = datetime(...)

    def render(self):
        return (self.get_widget('year').render() +
                self.get_widget('month').render() +
                self.get_widget('day').render())