Matthias, you should be able to do most decorator-like things within the JSP itself now. In my opinion, decorators aren't much use now that the JSP developer can add any jsp tags within the <displaytag> blocks. Of course, if you need some specific function, you may even be able to encapsulate it within a custom taglib that you provide.
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Matt Raible wrote: > Matthias, > > I'm forwarding your message to the displaytag developers list. I'm not > that familiar with the 1.0b2 codebase, so hopefully someone else can > help you out. > > Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:39 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: displaytag: changes to ColumnDecorator > > > > > > Hi Matt, > > > > before I go on I want to thank you honestly for taking over > > the display taglib and pushing it. It's a great piece of work > > and is extremly helpful for building webapps!!! > > > > > > I just wanted to switch from version 8.5 to 1.0b2 and I had > > to realize that the ColumnDecorator functionality has totally > > changed. It's an interface now :-( > > > > Without the possibility to access the page context > > ColumnDecorators are pretty useless in my humble opinion. For > > all formatting = decorating issues I usually need at least > > the locale of the user, right? > > > > Using the TableDecorator instead seems to be a bad > > workaround, because I can only use one decorator at the time. > > So I would need to create pleanty of sublcasses on > > TableDecorators to handle all possible variations I was able > > to use when I had ColumnDecorators. > > > > What was the design paradigm of switching the ColumnDecorator > > into an interface? Would you be willing to redo this step. > > > > Maybe (this option exists) I'm just to stupid to switch to > > the new version and use it incorrectly. But I found no > > examples of a ColumnDecorator anymore. The taglib reference > > on ColumnDecorators sound pretty vague: > > > > "If a decorator is specified for the entire table, then this > > decorator will decorate that decorator. " > > > > What is this supposed to mean? An example would be helpful. > > > > I'D have wanted to post this in the forum, what I was unable > > to do so (temp. reason). I'll do so as soon as I can, but I > > wanted to get your direct attention nonetheless, because I > > think this may be worth an "Open discussion". > > > > Regards, > > > > Matthias Steiner > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______________________________________________ > displaytag-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel > -- John York Software Engineer CareerSite Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
