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Form in the Garden: From the Sun to the Moon, From the Human Head to...

I love the perfect geometry that spherical forms lend to a garden; the contrast of carved stone spheres set amongst a tangle of sprawling perennials, or the single blooms of Allium.

Maybe my strong feeling for the form is just an extension of my love for the human head, the sun, the moon and Uranus.

Here is a collection of some of my favorite photographs featuring spherical forms:

image 1: the simple form of osage orange (I wasn't feeling very creative)
image 2: the forms of boxwood and Allium are a highlight of this minimalist garden (from Garden Design magazine)
image 3: bronze armillary (made by Kenneth Lynch & Son's for The Tudor Rose)
image 4: Allium repeating the spherical form of the balusters (from The Tudor Rose)
image 5: carved stone finial in the English Walled Garden of the Chicago Botanic Garden
image 6: simple white bloom of the Annabelle Hydrangea
image 7: carved stone spheres in a tangle of perennials (taken when I was a crappy photographer)

How do you use this form in the garden?  Feel free to share examples.

Chris Heiler
Fountainhead Gardens

             

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Pandora (WordPress) - Business & Portfolio

Pandora is a WordPress Template, designed to promote anything from a corporate business to a portfolio site.

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2010 Census with no option for Arab

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I hope every Arab American would check Other and write in Arab. Special Thanks to NAAP Chicago Chapter President Morad Askar for the work you are doing in Chicago.

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Implementing a custom multi value form field using Django

Recently I had to implement a web form where the user was required to enter the date and time for a certain event. Many data types can conveniently be represented using several form fields to enhance usability. For instance if you want a form field representing the time, instead of requiring a specific time format to be entered, you can use a field for hours and a field for minutes. This is a very common thing to do. Using Django you can achieve this by implementing a custom MultiValueField and MultiWidget. The benefit of using a MultiValueField and MultiWidget to do this, is that you can refer to the fields as one field in django, and get a compressed data type back, like in this case a datetime.time type.

Since this is not yet documented, I am going to show how I implemented a time field with a select field for hours and a select field for minutes.

It looks like this:

MultiValueField

The responsibility of a MultiValueField is to take a list of field input data and compress them into a suitable return data type. Furthermore it validates each of the field input data.

Here is the custom MultiValueField I implemented for my time field:

class TimeSelectField(MultiValueField):
    """
    Time multi field. Returns datetime.time object. Must be used together with TimeWidget
    """
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        fields = (
            forms.ChoiceField(choices=HOUR_CHOICES),
            forms.ChoiceField(choices=MINUTE_CHOICES)
        )
        super(TimeSelectField, self).__init__(fields, *args, **kwargs)
    def compress(self, data_list):
        if data_list:
            return time(hour=int(data_list[0]), minute=int(data_list[1]))
        return None

The compress method just returns a time object from the data that the widget (see below) has returned. The HOUR_CHOICES and MINUTE_CHOICES are lists of valid hour and minute values. We need to specify the fields used, so the MultiValueField can do basic validation of the input data. The TimeSelectField does not render two input fields, it only compresses and validates data. So we need to implement a TimeSelectWidget to use with it.

MultiWidget

Here is the code for the TimeSelectWidget:

class TimeSelectWidget(MultiWidget):
    """
    Time Widget, see TimeSelectField for info.
    """
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        widgets = (
            forms.Select(choices=HOUR_CHOICES),
            forms.Select(choices=MINUTE_CHOICES)
        )
        super(TimeSelectWidget, self).__init__(widgets, *args, **kwargs)
    def decompress(self, value):
        if value:
            return [str(value.hour), str(value.minute)]
        return [None, None]
    def format_output(self, rendered_widgets):
        return u'\n'.join(rendered_widgets)

The TimeSelectWidget overrides two methods:

• decompress does the opposite of compress. It takes a compressed data type (in this case a datetime.time) object and returns a data list. This is needed so we can provide an initial value to the widget.

• format_output is used for rendering the widget. Since we have the individual widgets rendered, I just inserted a newline between the two.

Conclusion

We can now use the field as any other regular form field in Django, and do the following in the python shell:

>>> from datetime import time
>>> from django import newforms as forms
>>> from mymodule.forms import TimeSelectField, TimeSelectWidget
>>>
>>> t = time(hour=9, minute=0)
>>> class MyForm(forms.Form)
>>>     time = TimeSelectField(widget=TimeSelectWidget, initial=t)
>>>
>>> f = MyForm()
>>> print f
<tr><th><label for="id_time_0">Time:</label></th><td><select name="time_0" id="id_time_0">
<option value="0">00</option>
<option value="1">01</option>
<option value="2">02</option>
<option value="3">03</option>
<option value="4">04</option>
<option value="5">05</option>
<option value="6">06</option>
<option value="7">07</option>
<option value="8">08</option>
<option value="9" selected="selected">09</option>
<option value="10">10</option>
<option value="11">11</option>
<option value="12">12</option>
<option value="13">13</option>
<option value="14">14</option>
<option value="15">15</option>
<option value="16">16</option>
<option value="17">17</option>
<option value="18">18</option>
<option value="19">19</option>
<option value="20">20</option>
<option value="21">21</option>
<option value="22">22</option>
<option value="23">23</option>
</select>
<select name="time_1" id="id_time_1">
<option value="00">00</option>
<option value="15">15</option>
<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="45">45</option>
</select></td></tr>

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Form Usability - Explain why you are asking

Put in a short sentence to tell your visitors why you need the information 

This form get it right. Example, refer to the Age and Postal Address field

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Makaroniform med pølser

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Lasagne

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