Holger,

That is really cool!

On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:

>
> The applicability of the widget types is controlled by the forms
> ontology. You can edit this as forms.owl in TBC and then copy your
> updated version into the org.topbraid.forms plugin under <eclipse>/
> plugins/org.topbraid.forms/etc.
>
> For example, forms:Tree has forms:widgetTypeRange of rdfs:Resource,
> meaning that it can be applied to all properties that point to other
> resources. This mechanism is not sophisticated enough to distinguish
> between transitive properties etc.
>
> Holger
>
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Arthur Keen wrote:
>
>>
>> Irene,
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.  I have one more question on the
>> applicability of the widget or restrictions of use.  For example, are
>> Table widgets only applicable to ObjectProperties and are Tree  
>> widgets
>> only applicable to Object Properties that recursively form trees like
>> hasChildren on person or hasPart on a bill of materials or worksFor  
>> on
>> Employee.
>>
>> Arthur
>>
>> On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Irene Polikoff wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Arthur,
>>>
>>> These settings are not for TBC, but rather for the web applications.
>>> Widget
>>> types get saved in .tbc file which can then be used to drive
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> In the 3.1 release the only widget type that is "honored" by the TBE
>>> applications is RichText. This type is available for any property
>>> with the
>>> range of xsd:String.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Irene
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of  
>>> Arthur
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:24 PM
>>> To: TopBraid Composer Users
>>> Subject: [tbc-users] What does Preferred Widget Type do?
>>>
>>>
>>> I experimented with the preferred widget type on the forms layout
>>> panel in TBCM 3.0.1 and now in 3.10.   My expectation has been that
>>> the preferred widget type would alter the way the property is
>>> displayed on an instance form.  However, selecting a preferred type
>>> widget ( Default, Table, Tree, TextInput, RadioButtons, or ComboBox,
>>> etc.) has no visible effect on the way the property is rendered on  
>>> an
>>> instance form.  What is also puzzling is that the same list of
>>> preferred widget types appear for ObjectProperties and
>>> DatatypeProperties.
>>> The docs have no information on the "Preferred Widget Type" feature.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> A
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >


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