hint appearance="minimal" and dynamic bind

Hello,

I'm using dynamic bind to switch the type(string/date/dateTime) of a input element, which has a "minimal" hint as a placeholder.

The problem is that, the hint gets lost if you switch the type from "date" to "string".

Here are the codes based on input-enter.xhtml:

<xh:html xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
    xmlns:f="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/formatting"
    xmlns:xh="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:xxf="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms"
    xmlns:widget="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/widget"
    xmlns:ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

    <xh:head>
        <xh:title>XForms Enter Key</xh:title>
        <xf:model>
            <xf:instance id="instance">
                <instance>
                    <textfield type=""/>
                </instance>
            </xf:instance>
                        <xf:bind nodeset="textfield[@type = '']" type="xs:string"/>
                        <xf:bind nodeset="textfield[@type = 'date']" type="xf:date"/>
                        <xf:bind nodeset="textfield[@type = 'dateTime']" type="xf:dateTime"/>
        </xf:model>
    </xh:head>
    <xh:body>
        <xh:p>
            <xf:input ref="textfield"  id="control-1">
                <xf:label>Press enter in the text field: </xf:label>
                <xf:hint appearance="minimal">this is a hint</xf:hint>
            </xf:input>
                </xh:p>
                <xh:p>
            textfield: <xf:output ref="textfield"/>
                </xh:p>
                <xh:p>
                        <xf:select1 ref="textfield/@type">
                                <xf:item>
                                        <xf:label>Date</xf:label>
                                        <xf:value>date</xf:value>
                                </xf:item>
                                <xf:item>
                                        <xf:label>DateTime</xf:label>
                                        <xf:value>dateTime</xf:value>
                                </xf:item>
                                <xf:item>
                                        <xf:label>String</xf:label>
                                        <xf:value></xf:value>
                                </xf:item>
                                <xf:action ev:event="xforms-value-changed">
                                        <xf:rebuild/>       
                                </xf:action>
                        </xf:select1>
        </xh:p>
                <xh:p>
            type: <xf:output ref="textfield/@type"/>
                </xh:p>
        <xh:p>
            <xf:textarea ref="textfield" incremental="true">
                <xf:label>Has the same value as the text field: </xf:label>
            </xf:textarea>
        </xh:p>
    </xh:body>
</xh:html>

Hi,

Indeed. We are aware of issues with the minimal appearance for the label/hint, for instance when used in a repeat. For the specific issue you have, for now I added this bug:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/1175

This will most likely be fixed with the changes we are currently working on to improve how tooltips for hints are shown:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/issues/1081

So, stay tuned!

Alex

OK! Thanks for your reply.

Hello Alex,

I just read this LHHA.caffee

Could I use this to resolve my problem about lost of hint after type changes?

I'm working on 4.0.1.

Thanks!

Hi,

LHHA.coffee is part of the work we are doing for #1081, but it isn't used at this point, so this isn't a solution for you just yet. But we're getting there: we should have #1081 implemented in the next few weeks, and with this I'm hoping we'll fix the issue you reported (#1175) at the same time.

Alex