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Making custom field types

Matthew Weinberg 18 Feb 2010 08:28 idea, complete

Hi Low,

Thanks for this great idea.

In this post you mention developers making custom field types:
http://getsatisfaction.com/low/topics...

I just wanted to add my vote to that. One of the best things about FieldFrame for me is that I can make custom fields that are very specific to the site I'm working on. I think the ability to do that here would be great as well. Is that already possible, just undocumented? Or is the API difficult?

-Matt

Replies

1. Low 18 Feb 2010 08:39

   Hey Matt,
   
   I already made the API public. Check out the docs on how to create your own variable type.
   
   There are currently two non-native variable types that I know of:
   
   

   
   
   • MD Color Picker by Ryan Masuga
   
   
   • Iain WYMeditor by Iain Urquhart
   
   
   
   
   I will be expanding the API as new requests come, and I'm thinking of writing up a post explaining how to port a FieldFrame fieldtype to a Variable Type.

   Matthew Weinberg 18 Feb 2010 08:49

   Wow, for some reason I just skipped right over that. Sorry about that Low-- reading now!

   Low 18 Feb 2010 08:51

   No problem! Let me know if you have any questions.