What you probably want is an Event Bus. There is a great video available, google for 'gwt mvp'. It is well worth a watch
Grant On Dec 16, 7:01 am, jax <[email protected]> wrote: > HI > > I have a questions about communication in GWT and java in general. > > In an effort to better modularize my application I have made a number > of different composites. I then have a main application that links > together all the composites. > > The problem comes when I need to communicate between composites, for > example change an image in a composite based on an event in another > composite. > > They way I have don this now is by passing "this" to every composite > constructor and saving it as parent. I also have methods that allow > me to get the children of a composite. Then in each composite I have > a getCompositeParent() method that will allow me to go further down > the composite tree. > > For example: > > parent.getCompositeParent().getCompositeParent().getNamesComposite > ().getName().setText("hello"); > > This seems a bit unwieldy. Is this the normal way of doing things in > JAVA? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
