[albatross-users] ctx.req_equals() question.

[Michael C. Neel]

Okay, I'll try the ".x" part.  Hopefully that will work and not run into
the other req_equals issue I'm having.  I do think it's a bit counter
intuitive, to work this way.  I had assumed that mybutton was a 2 arg
tuple od (x,y) since that's what it returns as ctx.locals.mybutton.

It's great that there is a lot of documentation, but the layout is very
hard to use for reference.  I would expect this under 5.1.2.7 <al-input
type="image"> rather than 4.3 The Popview App.  Input file was the same
way, I had to play around with it to figure out how to access the data
sent.

BTW, how is this abusing html?  This is how you would implement
server-side image maps, and is nothing new.  It's also the basis of how
prev and next buttons.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew McNamara [mailto:andrewm at object-craft.com.au] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:24 AM
> To: albatross-users at object-craft.com.au
> Subject: Re: [albatross-users] ctx.req_equals() question. 
> 
> 
> >>	ctx.req_equals("mybutton") 
> >>will return false while
> >>	dir(ctx.locals).has_key("mybutton")
> >>will return true
> >
> >You probably need to use 
> >	ctx.req_equals("mybutton.x")
> >as is mentioned in passing about half way through Sec 4.3 in 
> the manual.
> 
> Yep - the "image" inputs return the co-ordinates of where, within the
> image, the user clicked. So you get mybutton.x and mybutton.y in the
> Request class. A pain in the bottom, generally, but that's 
> what you get
> for abusing HTML... 8-)
> 
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