I could probably do that.  I used converters because the infrastructure was
there ... I needed to use localized NumberFormat and CurrencyFormat classes. 
If need be, I'll look into your suggestion as an alternative.

Thanks,

-Doug


jwcarman wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Doug Donohoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> It's proper for my use case.  I want to output an double as a percent
>> (e.g.,
>> .15 gets displayed as 15%).  I'm not sure why there is a type argument. 
>> The
>> label is defined as having a Double model.  What other conversions do I
>> need
>> to do besides Double &lt;==> String?
>>
>> I need to override this.  Making it final would not be helpful.  Unless
>> I'm
>> using the converter improperly.  I hope not - this is but one instance of
>> four or five where I'm using converters to format numbers/dates in a
>> locale
>> specific way.
>>
> 
> Could you use a model to do the formatting?  I created a
> MessageFormatModel one time which just applied a MessageFormat pattern
> to whatever it got from a model that it wrapped.  That made it very
> easy to format things the way I wanted.  Now, this only worked for
> stuff that I didn't need to be able to "set", but that wasn't a
> problem for me, since it was a Label (I believe).
> 
> 

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