am I understanding this right? when you use InitClass it will initialize an instance of that class but not associate it with the current swing object? or, are you saying that when you use that it will set whatever the new InitClass instance is as the action of the swing object?
-kate -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Frank Mei?ner Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Forum] Re: swixml .. What is still missing? Hello again, Ok, because I needed the features I mentioned, I added them for myself. Now I'm able to write swigxml-code like this: ... <menuitem id="mi_exit" InitClass="test.actions.ExitAction" FactoryMethod="getInstance"/> ... <button enabled="true" InitClass="test.actions.ExitAction" FactoryMethod="getInstance"/> ... All these objects use the same instance of ExitAction. If no ExitAction is used at all, no object of this type is created (of course...). So, this code moves swigxml a bit more to the business-logic part of the code. It allows you to switch some (maybe expensive) parts of your gui on and of. Especially if the components do create without further arguments you do not have to take care on them. Just implement them, test if they work correctly and leave it to someone else to decide if he/she wants to see them. On the original swigxml you have to take care on the creation of the actions for yourself. You have to (correct me if I'm wrong) assign an id to every button or menu item in the xml. Then you have to write code which iterates over all of the id's you defined. If one is used (e.g. the component by getIdMap().get(id) returned a value != null), you have to create the appropriate Action and assign it to the {button, menu item, ...}. Of course, one might use a clever String for the id (like "1.test.actions.ExitAction<getInstance>") but this is not as clever as to provide the factory method :) Just tell me what you think of it... Frank _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list [email protected] http://mars.lunarpages.com/mailman/listinfo/forum_carlsbadcubes.com
