Here I am again with a little question. :sweat_smile: Are we able to use the Silk Button in a regul...

# kobweb

[Christiano]

Here I am again with a little question. 😅

Are we able to use the Silk Button in a regular Dom Form? 🤔

I was following Stevdza-san's tutorial and noticed I used a different import for the button in a form.
Since the Silk button has a onClick high order function that must be overridden I was not sure what to add in the function itself, and thus the form never actually completes xD

I couldn't find anything related in the docs regarding the forms, so asking here was my next big guess.

[David Herman]

Make sure you're importing the right button

[David Herman]

Right now Button and Input have Compose HTML and Silk variants

[David Herman]

(You always want to choose the Silk one if it's available IMHO 😉 )

[David Herman]

Oh wait

[David Herman]

I am going to leave my previous answer here as an embarassing testament to my not understanding and replying too soon (I tend to do that, my apologies)

[David Herman]

Actually there is an issue where right now buttons prevent forms from working

[David Herman]

In our next release, you should be able to do

Button(
  onClick = { ... }
  type = ButtonType.Submit,
)

and it should work.

[David Herman]

(Technical detail: I was using evt.preventDefault for some long forgotten legacy reason that wasn't necessary anymore. We removed it just a few days ago, and I say "we" but I really mean the other guy because he's the one on the ball 😄 )

[David Herman]

BTW, if you're willing to live on the bleeding edge, you can set your version to 0.13.12-SNAPSHOT. The snapshot should have the fix for buttons (not confirmed, but I believe so) and 2) it will allow you to configure the switch thumb color, in case that was something you wanted to do as well.

[Christiano]

Hahah, not a problem I do have that sometimes too xD

And I noticed that I was using both imports for different parts of my project, thus creating a mixmatch of components that where not adjusting accordingly, so I'm going over every layout to update them to Silk (if possible)

I already was using the Submit type for the Silk button, but because it wasn't working I assumed I was missing some other piece. Now with the snapshot version it works out of the bag so I continue using this awesome library 😄

Thank you for your helping me!