[Catalyst] Forms and Plugins and Tutorials, oh my!!

Thu Aug 17 19:28:16 CEST 2006

Almost all your questions are related to JavaScript:

* WYSIWYG editors usually hook on top of <textarea> using a class or ID
* Field focusing is purely JS
* Input masks are ONLY possible with JS
* Autotab is also only possible with JS, just don't abuse it

Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> Fellow Catalyst Enthusiasts,
> 
> The more I see of Catalyst the more I'm liking it.  I just started taking it
> for a spin a week or so ago.  
> 
> After just finishing the HTML::Widget plugin portion of the Catalyst
> tutorial yesterday I saw the post announcing the FormBuilder plugin.  Both
> look very promising.  There are a couple of features I'd love to see
> available in one form library or another.  I searched through the vast
> asortment of available Catalyst plugins and didn't see what I was looking
> for.  So I thought it might be best to ask if any of the current plugins
> provide such functionality.  If none do perhaps someone will see this post
> and think, "Hay, that would really be helpful.  I think I'll enhance my
> plugin."
> 
> Are there currently any form libraries that integrate a WYSIWYG style HTML
> editor such as the FCKEditor?  
> 
> Does any of the available form libraries have the ability to set the focus
> to a particular field?  I have a simple bit of JavaScript that combined with
> a <body onLoad="FieldFocus()"> will set the focus to the first form field on
> a page if the page contains a form, but it would be nice to have such
> functionality built into a form library.  For some reason my JavaScript
> doesn't appear to work with HTML::Widget generated forms.  I haven't tried
> it with FormBuilder generated forms yet.
> 
> Does any available form library implement input mask type functionality?
> Okay, I'll admit it - I'm a fan of old-fashioned text based data entry apps.
> When entering a date, for example, I much prefer to be able to enter
> something like 02132006 into a text field and have the application
> automatically add the separator characters transforming it to 02/13/2006.  I
> absolutely hate drop-down boxes on html forms for date entry.  Input mask
> type functionality is also helpful for such things as social security
> numbers, phone numbers, etc.  
> 
> Does any available form library implement an autotab feature?  Extending the
> example above it would be nice to have the cursor automatically skip to the
> next field after entering the last digit of a date in a date field.  
> 
> And now I have a couple of image plugin related questions.  Are there any
> Catalyst plugins to help deal with uploaded images?  I'm looking for
> something along the lines of:
> 
>   1.  Generate a random name to avoid duplicate filename conflicts and move
>       the uploaded image to an image directory.
> 
>   2.  Generate a thumbnail for the image.
> 
>   3.  Store the needed image path and size info in a database.
> 
>   4.  Helper functions to spit out an appropriate image tag in a template
>       for images in the database.
>   
> 
> Kevin
> http://www.RawFedDogs.net
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> Bruceville, TX
> 
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> 
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