Advice for building a Form Component in 4.1.2

[Daniel Leffel <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,
I'm starting to develop a new form component and I wanted to see if
anyone had any suggestions on the best design. I'd be happy to share
it back (once finished) with anyone who is interested.

I'm building a form component used to "rate" something (i.e. 3 out of
4 stars etc.). A few key points:
 - I'm going to make the scale flexible ( 4 stars vs. 5 stars) - set
as a parameter.
 - Image used (i.e. star versus something else) flexible, controlled by the css
 - Setting the rating will be done asynchronously (no postback)
 - Component will manage changing the image used for each star based
on the current value

So, I'm thinking I'd extend AbstractFormComponent, however, since I
can't build DirectLinks dynamically, that's where I'm unclear as what
to do.

The alternative was to extend BaseComponent, but then I loose the
unwind functionality needed.

Any thoughts on the best way to proceed?

Danny

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