Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread David Chang
I have two pages. The first page is extended by the second page. On the second page, I want to access a component on the first page. One way to do this is to make the component a member variable of the first page. I feel this way may have two drawbacks: 1. A member variable uses more resources

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread Igor Vaynberg
Component#findParent(SomeClass.class) may be useful -igor On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:00 PM, David Chang david_q_zh...@yahoo.com wrote: I have two pages. The first page is extended by the second page. On the second page, I want to access a component on the first page. One way to do this is to

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread David Chang
igor, thanks for prompt help! I can use Component#findParent(SomeClass.class) to find the first page. How can I further find the component by this Wicket ID? I need to overwrite its display value. Thanks again. --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Igor Vaynberg igor.vaynb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Igor

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread Major Péter
Maybe, this will be good for you: http://wicketstuff.org/wicket13doc/org/apache/wicket/MarkupContainer.html#get(java.lang.String) Regards, Peter 2010-02-28 22:12 keltezéssel, David Chang írta: igor, thanks for prompt help! I can use Component#findParent(SomeClass.class) to find the first

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread David Chang
Thanks for your input. This is interesting. Somehow I got confused. Shouldn't this method be natural part of a Component? As you know, each component has child components, which is why a Wicket page has a hiearchy of components. Let's take MarkcupContainer for the moment. Using this class

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread Major Péter
and the WebPage isn't a MarkupContainer or what?? 2010-02-28 23:54 keltezéssel, David Chang írta: Thanks for your input. This is interesting. Somehow I got confused. Shouldn't this method be natural part of a Component? As you know, each component has child components, which is why a

Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy?

2010-02-28 Thread David Chang
Major, thanks for the info. You are right. I did not look down further along the wicket class hierarchy. Thanks! --- On Sun, 2/28/10, Major Péter majorpe...@sch.bme.hu wrote: From: Major Péter majorpe...@sch.bme.hu Subject: Re: Better way to find a parent compoent in page hiearchy? To: