Usage with Alloy widgets

[mpociot]

Is there any possibility to pass an existing nano object to Alloy widgets (and make them work there as well...)?

I was thinking of something like this:

<Widget src="my.awesome.widget" id="myWidget" />

And in my controller, pass the nano object to the widget:

$.myWidget.nano = nano;

Is something like this possible with nano?

[dbankier]

Not sure you need to.You don't actually create a nano instance. The base nano function just binds the models and views. Not sure what you are looking to to do, but you might just want to pass the $model object to the widget and bind it there as well.

[mpociot]

Okay. Here is a more detailed example to showcase my problem:

My widget XML view looks like this:

<Label id="title" />
<TextField id="field" />

What I've tried is:

In my controller:

<Widget src="my.awesome.widget" id="myWidget" binding="person.firstname" />

widget.js

var nano = require("nano");
nano.syntax(/\-\=(.+?)\=\-/gi);

$.field.value = '-=' + args.binding + '=-';

$.setBinding = function(model){
    nano( $, model );
}

And in my controller I do:

$.myWidget.setBinding( $model );

But the textfield value still remains empty (so it gets replaced by nano)

Hope this makes things clearer :)

[dbankier]

I just added an example of how I would do it.
The widget shouldn't know anything about binding on the public api (unless it uses it internally).
It should by simple UI that expose properties for its public api that the controller can bind against.
I pushed a new version as well to support that.

[dbankier]

just updated the widget example for two way binding.