Mozilla XML - XForms, radio buttons and check boxes: an example?

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XForms, radio buttons and check boxes: an example?

Pascal Sartoretti

2005-10-05, 6:31 am

Hello,

I would like to display a form including radio buttons and check boxes.
I tried to use the <select> and <select1> tags with appearance="full",
but I still get a drop down list or a list box. The error is certainly
in my code, so where is there an example with such widgets?

Thanks for any help

Pascal Sartoretti

PS, my config:

Windows XP SP2
FireFox 1.5 Beta 1
Mozilla XForms 0.2

Michael Vincent van Rantwijk

2005-10-05, 6:33 pm

Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to display a form including radio buttons and check boxes.
> I tried to use the <select> and <select1> tags with appearance="full",
> but I still get a drop down list or a list box. The error is certainly
> in my code, so where is there an example with such widgets?

....so where is your code ;)

Michael

Allan Beaufour

2005-10-05, 6:33 pm

Hi Pascal,

Wednesday 05 October 2005 11:33 skrev Pascal Sartoretti:
> I would like to display a form including radio buttons and check boxes.
> I tried to use the <select> and <select1> tags with appearance="full",
> but I still get a drop down list or a list box. The error is certainly
> in my code, so where is there an example with such widgets?

We only support appearance="full" for select right now (which will give you
checkboxes if I remember correctly).

You will need a recent nightly build though. We have a second preview of the
extension coming up quite soon.

--
Allan Beaufour
Linux Software Engineer

Novell, Inc.
Software for the Open Enterprise
www.novell.com/open

Pascal Sartoretti

2005-10-05, 6:33 pm

Allan Beaufour wrote:
> We only support appearance="full" for select right now (which will give you
> checkboxes if I remember correctly).

Well, I get a drop down list in fact with appearance="full".

> You will need a recent nightly build though. We have a second preview of the
> extension coming up quite soon.

Do you mean that the results may be different if I use the same
extension with a nightly build or 1.5 Beta 1?

Pascal

Pascal Sartoretti

2005-10-05, 6:33 pm

Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
> ...so where is your code ;)

I am not looking for debugging help, but no problem if you want to, you
can find the code below :-)

My question was simply "Is there any example available online" ?

Pascal

....

<xf:select1 ref="/request/direction" appearance="full"
selection="closed">
<xf:label class="label">Direction:</xf:label>
<xf:item>
<xf:label>One way</xf:label>
<xf:value>oneWay</xf:value>
</xf:item>
<xf:item>
<xf:label>Return</xf:label>
<xf:value>return</xf:value>
</xf:item>
</xf:select1>

....

Michael Vincent van Rantwijk

2005-10-05, 6:33 pm

Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
>
> I am not looking for debugging help, but no problem if you want to, you
> can find the code below :-)
>
> My question was simply "Is there any example available online" ?

Hey, I'm still learning new stuff, and looking at other people's code
helps me a lot, so thank you ;)

Michael

> Pascal
>
> ...
>
> <xf:select1 ref="/request/direction" appearance="full"
> selection="closed">
> <xf:label class="label">Direction:</xf:label>
> <xf:item>
> <xf:label>One way</xf:label>
> <xf:value>oneWay</xf:value>
> </xf:item>
> <xf:item>
> <xf:label>Return</xf:label>
> <xf:value>return</xf:value>
> </xf:item>
> </xf:select1>
>
> ...

Aaron Reed

2005-10-05, 10:29 pm

Pascal Sartoretti wrote:
> Allan Beaufour wrote:
>
>
>
> Well, I get a drop down list in fact with appearance="full".
>

xf:select1 is the combobox with the drop down, not xf:select.
xf:select1 does not support the appearance attribute, yet. When it
does, it will display radio buttons.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303353 is the bug that is
open against xf:select1 not supporting the appearance attribute, yet.
xf:select DOES support appearance="full" right now.

>
>
> Do you mean that the results may be different if I use the same
> extension with a nightly build or 1.5 Beta 1?
>
> Pascal

If you get the 1.5 beta 1 and the xforms.xpi for FF 1.5 Beta 1 from the
xforms project page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xforms) you should
be able to do xf:select with @appearance="full".

Here is an example form:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >
<head>
<title>Select testcase</title>
<xforms:model>
<xforms:instance id="temp" xmlns="">
<values>
<value>first value</value>
<value>second value</value>
<selectedvalue></selectedvalue>
</values>
</xforms:instance>
<xforms:bind id="Select" nodeset="/values/selectedvalue" />
</xforms:model>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Should show a select as checkboxes with 2 items</h2>
<h3>Uses select and value</h3>
<br/>
<p>
<xforms:select id="CHK" bind="Select" appearance="full">
<xforms:label></xforms:label>
<xforms:item>
<xforms:label ref="/values/value[1]"></xforms:label>
<xforms:value>firstValue</xforms:value>
</xforms:item>
<xforms:item>
<xforms:label ref="/values/value[2]"></xforms:label>
<xforms:value>secondValue</xforms:value>
</xforms:item>
</xforms:select>
</p>
<p>
<xforms:output ref="/values/selectedvalue">
<xforms:label>Selected value: </xforms:label>
</xforms:output>
</p>
</body>
</html>