Could you post your update of OZebee´s work? I would
also like to use SwiXML with JGoodies Form Layout.
TIA & best regards,
Álvaro Coronel.
--- Forum@carlsbadcubes.com wrote:
>
> <Forum <at> carlsbadcubes.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > First of all .. thanks for swixml ..
> >
> > I very much like the swixml-forms "hack".
> > I am trying to rewrite it so it can be plugged in
> into swixml but I am
> > afraid this will requires some changes to swixml.
> The current aproach I have
> chosen is to create new classes
> > for the LayoutConverter to support the the
> fromlayout and the
> ConstraintsConverter to support
> > formlayout constraints and then registering them
> to swixml
> >
> > my now working xml looks like this
> > <panel
>
layout="formlayout('pref,2dlu,pref,min','pref,2dlu,pref')">
> > <label labelfor="name" text="Date format"
> constraints="xy(1,1)"/>
> > ..shorted...
> > </panel>
> >
> > I have managed to overide the LayoutConverter by
> registering it a as
> LayoutManager converter.
> >
>
ConverterLibrary.getInstance().register(LayoutManager.class,new
> FormLayoutConverter());
> >
> > but for the ConstraintsConverter I can not do the
> same since that class is not
> a real converter
> > (doen't implement the interface and is not
> registered in the converters).
> > Therefore I had to change the Parser.java so it
> uses my "overidden"
> ConstraintsConverter.
> > Whould the swixml author accept a patch so that
> the
> > ConstraintsConverter can also be plugged in?
> >
> > greetings
> >
> > P.S. It looks like that when you use a frame as
> container it is not possible
> to change the layoutmanager of the
> > frame you eeded to put a panel in the frame.
> >
>
> I would also very much like to see either the
> swixml-forms hack itself
> (http://jroller.com/page/ozeebee/Weblog), or the
> more pluggable version worked
> out by the author of this post, officially rolled
> into SwiXML. I just integrated
> Ozeebee's original version with the latest SwiXML
> and JGoodies releases. This
> involved adding approximately 60 lines of code to
> Parser.java, one line each to
> SwingTagLibrary.java and ConverterLibrary.java, and
> adding two new converter
> classes: CellConstraintsAlignmentConverter.java and
> FormBorder.java. The
> JGoodies Forms jar had to be added as a third-party
> library. It was very
> straightforward. Nice work on this enhancement,
> Ozeebee. It is a wonderful
> addition to SwiXML. The forms you can build with
> FormLayout are so much more
> refined and useable than anything you can do with
> standard Swing layouts. The
> combination of these two well-designed and
> easy-to-use frameworks, SwiXML and
> JGoodies Forms, is very powerful indeed.
>
> I greatly appreciate and respect the work you guys
> have done on SwiXML. If you
> could find the time and the inclination to merge
> this FormLayout integration
> into an official SwiXML release, you would be making
> many of us very happy.
> Please let me know if you'd like me to send you the
> patch I just worked out,
> along with instructions for how to integrate it with
> the latest dev.java.net
> source.
>
> Keep up the great work Wolf, Ozeebee, and everyone
> else contributing to SwiXML.
>
> -JP
>
>
>
>
>
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