[Product-Developers] Re: How to use z3c.form with Plone

[David Bain]

So all the add on z3c.form widgets work nicely with the Plone implementation
of z3c.form?

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Daniel Nouri <daniel.nouri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Hierweck writes:
>
> > Daniel Nouri wrote:
> >> I just uploaded a new tutorial to plone.org that explains how to use
> >> z3c.form with Plone. z3c.form is the next generation Zope form library
> >> and excels through ease of use and very good documentation.
> >>
> >> http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/easy-forms-with-plone3
> >
> > does this conflict with zope.formlib and the widgets related to
> > zope.formlib like UberSelectionWidget?
>
> zope.formlib and z3c.form widgets are incompatible.  But porting widgets
> from formlib to z3c.form isn't hard.  We've ported Martin's formlib
> WYSIWYG widget to z3c.form in less than an hour, getting rid of some
> Zope 2 hacks that proved unnecessary in the z3c.form model.  You can
> find the port in the plone.z3cform source.
>
> > The portlet infrastructure and some other update standalone forms use
> > zope.formlib. Is it possible to mix these approaches, e.g. use z3c.form
> > with the portlet infrastructure and reuse widgets?
>
> We've used z3c.form forms successfully in a Plone 3 style portlet in
> Singing & Dancing.
>
> > Or will there be do indepent form libraries with different sets of
> > widgets?
>
> You can't use zope.formlib widgets with z3c.form.  However, the set of
> stock widgets for z3c.form is in very good shape, and there's people
> that actively develop z3c.form widgets, see zw.widget, jquery.widget,
> z3c.formjs, z3c.formdemo etc.
>
>
> Daniel
>
>
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