DynamicForm: how to make single fields editable on mouse over?

[d.cavestro]

I'm wondering if there's a well known way to show a readonly dynamicform (i.e. it uses only StaticTextItem fields, not readonly TextItem ones) and provide a way to editing only one single field per time (i.e. clicking on a button shown only on mouse over, etc).

It would be similar to the way JIRA 6 let you edit fields:

Every field edit should be considered atomic, hence saved.

I'm going to make it myself from the ground up, replacing a single StaticTextItem with the editable item on the fly, but I'd like to be sure there's no other easy way to achieve it.

[Isomorphic]

You haven't mentioned your version - if its 4.0 or 4.1, you can do this easily, because these newer releases no longer generate StaticTextItems for readOnly formItems.

Instead, they use readOnlyDisplay appearances to represent canEdit: false items in a number of ways (one of "static", "readOnly", "disabled") - so you would just setCanEdit(false) on all fields and then setCanEdit(true) on a specific one when your button is clicked.

If you're using an older version, you'll need to do something like you suggest - generally, creating all the items (both static and otherwise) and then using showIf/show/hide to manipulate them is probably the best approach.

[d.cavestro]

Great!

Great!
And sorry, you are right: I missed to report that I'm using SmartGWT 4.0. I'm going to update to the latest nightly in order to get the fixes you mentioned at http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=27810

You haven't mentioned your version - if its 4.0 or 4.1, you can do this easily, because these newer releases no longer generate StaticTextItems for readOnly formItems.

Instead, they use readOnlyDisplay appearances to represent canEdit: false items in a number of ways (one of "static", "readOnly", "disabled") - so you would just setCanEdit(false) on all fields and then setCanEdit(true) on a specific one when your button is clicked.

If you're using an older version, you'll need to do something like you suggest - generally, creating all the items (both static and otherwise) and then using showIf/show/hide to manipulate them is probably the best approach.