Re: [fw-mvc] Zend_Dojo - How to get the value of an Editor dijit

Matthew,

I read over the docs and I think I'll attempt an extension of
dijit.form.Form and see how it goes.

Thanks for the encouragement!

--regards,

Nathan Garlington
www.tandrtrailer.com

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney
<matthew@zend.com> wrote:
> -- Nathan Garlington <garlinto@gmail.com> wrote
> (on Saturday, 06 February 2010, 01:03 PM -0700):
>> I haven't extended dijit.form.Form yet, but I have done something
>> simpler: in the dojo.connect() that listens for the form submit, I
>> check for a valid form as well as a valid Editor field and take action
>> depending on the results. While I feel fairly proficient at writing
>> dojo apps (hardly consult the api reference anymore), I haven't tried
>> extending any dojo widgets yet, although I suppose that task isn't as
>> arduous as I am making it out to be in my head. I suppose that if I
>> did that, I would then have a reusable form widget that I could plugin
>> any time I needed to have the Editor in a form....something to think
>> about.
>
> Extending Dijits or writing your own is actually really, really easy,
> and dojocampus has a nice "quick start" to writing them:
>
>    http://docs.dojocampus.org/quickstart/writingWidgets
>
> That page also has a reference section towards the bottom that has some
> great links.
>
> The main thing to realize is that all widgets have the same API: you
> pass an object of parameters to mixin to the widget, and then optionally
> a DOM node that will be replaced with the new widget:
>
>    var widget = new some.Widget(params, node);
>
> Widgets themselves typically will provide either a template string, or
> the path to a file containing the template, and optionally some
> behavior; there's a whole widget lifecycle that you can tie into in
> order to do customization. Once you know the basics and write one or
> two, you'll likely find you have trouble finding situations where
> they're _not_ applicable; they're really that easy.
>
> Have fun!
>
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