How's that?
Isn't the line:
Enumeration formatEKeys = format.attributes();
getting the attributes?
Then:
while (formatEKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
String o = (String) formatEKeys.nextElement();
Iterating through those attributes?
-Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Sonnenleiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:02 PM
> To: ECS Users List
> Subject: RE: Help for a new user - Working with elements
>
>
> In that case, your problem is you're going through the elements, not
> through the attributes.
>
> At 11:50 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Here's the trick:
> >
> > The attributes will be defined by someone else
> using the class,
> >so the attributes will not be static. Any attributes could be set
> >in the format class, and I need to copy them. I want this to be
> >generic as possible, so I can loop through a set of TD's, set a
> >condition to modify a format, then apply that format to only those
> >records that need it. I can't just call setBgColor on all the TD's,
> >unless I do some tricks with reflexion to pass the name of the method
> >call. I want this to be simple and easy for a user.
> >
> > So, my question still remains:
> >
> > How do I copy these attributes from one TD to another?
> >
> > I've tried to create a ConcreteElement and do it like this:
> >
> > TD data = new TD("Foo");
> > TD format = new TD();
> > format.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
> >
> > Enumeration formatEKeys = format.attributes();
> > ConcreteElement ce = new ConcreteElement();
> > while (formatEKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
> > String o = (String) formatEKeys.nextElement();
> > System.out.println (o);
> > String value = format.getAttribute(o);
> > System.out.println (value);
> > ce.addElementToRegistry (o, value);
> > System.out.println (ce);
> > data.addElement (ce);
> > }
> > System.out.println (data);
> >
> > I get the following result:
> >
> >bgcolor
> >#FFFFCC
> ><>#FFFFCC</>
> ><td>Foo<>#FFFFCC</></td>
> >
> > Almost, but not quite. Can someone help me clean up this
> >code so it produces:
> >
> > <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC">Foo</td>
> >
> > Thanks yet again.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Klaus Sonnenleiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >
> > >
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > You could probably get to where you want to go by looping
> through the
> > > attributes and copying them one by one. But it seems
> > > unnecessary to me. You
> > > could also create classes that inherit from TD and set some
> > > defaults, like this
> > >
> > > class JimsOwnTD extends TD {
> > > JimsOwnTD() {
> > > this("default")
> > > }
> > >
> > > JimsOwnTD(String s) {
> > > super(s);
> > > this.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
> > > }
> > >
> > > //override other methods here
> > > }
> > >
> > > Then, instead of creating two separate TDs, you'll create
> > > only one JimsOwnTD:
> > >
> > > JimsOwnTD jotd = JimsOwnTD("Foo");
> > >
> > > and it should inherit what you need.
> > >
> > > Klaus
> > >
> > > At 10:48 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, Nemesh, Jim wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Jeremy W. Redmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:00 AM
> > > > > To: ECS Users List
> > > > > Subject: Re: Help for a new user - Working with elements
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Posting the code snippet that you are trying might be helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Here's the basic idea:
> > > >
> > > > TD data = new TD("Foo");
> > > > TD format = new TD();
> > > > format.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
> > > > Enumeration formatEKeys = format.attributes();
> > > > while (formatEKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
> > > > String o = (String) formatEKeys.nextElement();
> > > > System.out.println (o);
> > > > String value = format.getAttribute(o);
> > > > System.out.println (value);
> > > > // do something to create an element with
> > > these values and
> > > >add it to data.
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > This should take the format information (backround
> > > color) from the
> > > >format
> > > >TD object, and put it in the first TD object.
> > > >
> > > > The question is, what goes after the comment line?
> > > Should I be
> > > >making a
> > > >ConcreteElement, or GenericElement? If so, how would I go
> > > about doing this?
> > > >
> > > > Why am I doing this? I'm building some generic
> > > ways to create
> > > >tables from other objects
> > > >and provide ways to format the cells and rows of the tables
> > > after the TD
> > > >objects have already
> > > >been created, or provide multiple levels of formatting (for
> > > example one test
> > > >would say that if
> > > >the data included the word "Foo", the backround would be
> > > red, and if the
> > > >data contained the word
> > > >"Bar" as well, it would do something else.)
> > > >
> > > > -Jim Nemesh
> > > >
> > > >
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