I think I have missed the point of this discussion - can you explain why informal parameters cannot do this (as per Malcolm's suggestion)? We use informal parameters on loads of Tapestry's form components to control their class, and it works fine...
Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy Gantenbein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Howard M. Lewis Ship'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dorothy Gantenbein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 10:35 AM Subject: RE: [Tapestry-developer] Extending Textfield Question > Hi Howard - > > Yours suggestions of using inheritance for my own text field worked great. > However, I also wanted to the same behavior in Radio, PropertySelection, > Select, TextArea and Checkbox. These components do not have a > beforeCloseTag method. Therefore, I must copy their entire renderComponent > method into my subclass. Unless there is another approach, I would like to > file and enhancement request for these components to have a beforeCloseTag > method added. > > Dorothy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard M. Lewis Ship [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:01 AM > To: Dorothy Gantenbein; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Tapestry-developer] Extending Textfield Question > > > TextField is designed for this, fortunately (mostly to support ValidField). > > You should be able to copy the TextField .jwc into your application and > modify it to point to your own class. Add the class parameter as direction > "in" to a property named "styleClass". > > Subclass TextField and override beforeCloseTag() to insert your styleClass > property. > > By putting TextField into the application specification it will > automatically take effect for all the pages of your application. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dorothy Gantenbein <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:37 PM > Subject: [Tapestry-developer] Extending Textfield Question > > Hi - > > We would like to have our own textfield with an HTML 'class' parameter. > This class parameter would have a default to our pre-defined style. Should > I inherit from Tapestry's TextField or use delegation? If I use delegation, > how do I pass the informal parameters to the contained Tapestry TextField? > > Thanks... > Dorothy > > <http://informative.com/advise/index.jsp> > <http://informative.com/images/spacer_clear.gif> > > > > Dorothy Gantenbein > Software Architect > 650.534.1077 | t > 650.534.1020 | f > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
