Overriding _setDisabledAttr

Dojo 1.x users
1

I created a custom widget (widgetA) and in widgetA I override the set disabled function as follows.

_setDisabledAttr: function(value){
   this.inherited(arguments);
   this.someOtherFunction();
}

However, setting disabled to true and then calling widgetA.get(‘disabled’) always returns false.

2

Without seeing more of the widget code it is difficult to troubleshoot. What is being passed in as the value? What dependencies are included in the custom widget?

3

It inherits from _WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin and _WidgetsInTemplateMixin.
This widget basically creates two datetextboxes and links them together (date range from-to). _setDisabledAttr function is something like this:

this.inherited(arguments);
this.dateFrom.set('disabled', value);
this.dateTo.set('disabled', value);

Value is being passed to the function either as true or false.

We expected that calling widgetA.get(‘disabled’) will return the correct value.

4

None of _WidgetBase, _TemplatedMixin and _WidgetsInTemplateMixin support being ‘disabled’. If you read the code for these you won’t see a _setDisabledAtt function. Things like form dijits do. So in your widget you’re going to need to do something like

isDisabled: false,

_setDisabledAttr: function(disable){
   this.isDisabled = disable;
   this.doStuff();
},

_getDisabledAttr: function(value){
   return this.isDisabled;
}
5

Or you could inherit from or mixin one of the Form base classes/mixins such as dijit/form/_FormWidget or dijit/form/_FormValueWidget.