[Zope3-dev] Proposed widget/schema work for the Rivah sprint (Thursday and Friday this week)

[Gary Poster]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Fred Drake wrote:

> On 8/30/05, Gary Poster <gary at zope.com> wrote:
>
>> Adam, I'm sorry, I don't know much about the CustomWidgetFactory.  We
>> are using the zope.formlib package exclusively now (http://
>> svn.zope.org/zope.formlib/), which does not use custom widget
>> factories or <browser:widget>.  Dominik's email sounds promising.
>>
>
> Actually, I have used the two together, using the custom_widget
> attribute of form fields.  It's not necessarily a good fit, though,
> especially from Python code, since CustomWidgetFactory requires that
> you specify the concrete widget factory (it can't simply modify
> whatever gets looked up without real help).  <browser:widget> does
> support that case.

OK, if you understand the problem, then maybe we can look at that a  
bit at the sprint, as Adam suggested.

Gary