[racket] textarea-input formlet | How to specify rows & cols

Thanks Horace, I've just pushed your patch with test cases and new
documentation.

Jay

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Horace Dynamite
<horace.dynamite at gmail.com> wrote:
> This has been fixed.
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The textarea formlet doesn't support setting those attributes right
>> now. It should be straight-forward for you to do and me to commit the
>> patch. Check out:
>>
>> http://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/web-server/formlets/input.rkt
>>
>> and compare textarea-input to text-or-password and you should be able
>> to do it fairly easily.
>>
>> If you submit a bug report, then it will be on my TODO list to get to
>> eventually.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Horace Dynamite
>> <horace.dynamite at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm really struggling to understand how to use these formlets, so
>>> please bear with me here :-)
>>> I've been playing with the continue blog application, and instead of
>>> input fields consisting of just a single row when you're adding a new
>>> post, I'd like to have a TEXTAREA field instead for the post body.
>>>
>>> I've got the following formlets,
>>>
>>> (define make-post-formlet
>>>  (formlet
>>>   (#%#
>>>    (div ((class "make-post-title"))
>>>    "Title:" ,{input-string . => . title})
>>>    (div ((class "make-post-body"))
>>>     "Post:" ,{(textarea-input) . => . post})
>>>    (input ((type "submit"))))
>>>   (list title post)))
>>>
>>> (define display-post-confirm
>>>  (match-lambda
>>>    [(list title post)
>>>     `(html
>>>       (head (title "Post confirm page"))
>>>       (body
>>>        "Post title: " ,title
>>>        "Post contents:" ,post))]))
>>>
>>> Notice in make-post-formlet, I'm using the predefined textarea-input
>>> formlet. A lot of the other formlets have optional attributes you can
>>> set specifying various features of that particular HTML entity, but I
>>> don't understand how to specify the row and column size for the
>>> textarea-input formlet.
>>>
>>> Any help on how to do this, or whether I should be considering a
>>> different approach would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Horace.
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>>
>>
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>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://teammccarthy.org/jay
>>
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>>
>



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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93