[Zope3-dev] RFC: Make <widget /> subdirective support sequence/items widgets

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 
>>Hi there,
>>
>>it's quite confusing that sequence widgets and items widgets (such as
>>SelectWidget, DropdownWidget, etc.) cannot be specified in the <widget
>>/> subdirective of the addform and editform directives. I actually
>>consider it a bug because documentation and implementation are saying
>>something different.
> 
> snip
> 
> Just because I'm curious, is this in fact related to:
> 
>   http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2005-June/000601.html

It very much is. I just realized last night that I need to fix up the 
sequence widget to use the different custom widget factories as well.

>>I would like to hear your comments, especially from
>>people who are heavily involved into forms (Roger, Garret, ...?).
> 
> 
> I'm of course not involved, but from a Zope 3 user's perspective, I think to
> understand life does get much easier if you want to specify another widget for
> such fields with this change.

Yup, that's the idea.

Philipp