Ok,
Let me see if I understand this. You basically are creating an element that
is formatted but contains no information, and you want to apply that
elements format to another element. Is that right? There are currently no
merge(Element e1, Element e2) functions. You could do a couple of things.
Create you format element and clone() it before adding any childelements to
the clone, or you could call attributes() and go through the enumeration and
getAttribute(enum.nextElement()) and populate an empty element that way. If
this isn't what you are wanting to do let me know and I'll try and think up
another suggestion. I'll re-subscribe to this list tommorrow from my new
work addy so I can get back to you a little quicker next time.
-stephan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nemesh, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'ECS Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Lemaire, Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: RE: Help for a new user - Working with elements
> 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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