[albatross-users] setting value field

[Eric S. Johansson]

Michael C. Neel wrote:

> In my apps I use the name of the submit button to control flow, using
> the ctx.req_equals().
> 
> Normally looks something like:
> 
> 	if self.page = "mystuff/form.html":
> 
> 		if ctx.req_equals("saveme"):
> 			#save the record
> 		elif ctx.req_equals("delme"):
> 			# delete the record
> 		etc....

ah. more missing pieces are falling into place.

> As for setting values in an al-input; you don't need to do anything.  If
> ctx.locals.name = 'Mike', and your tag is <al-input type="text"
> name="name"> albatross will write out <al-input type="text" name="name"
> value="Mike">.

so you are saying that the value of the name used for the name field is applied 
to the value field.  It's marvelously simple and quite intuitive once you know 
it's there!!

is this documented anywhere?  I would love to know where my brain skiped the groove.

more questions tomorrow as I puzzle out the joys of state preservation

---eric