Hi, Sorry I did't make myself a bit clearer.
I suppose what I'm trying to work out is how to create a 'black-box component' that consists of many widgets. For example, a 'paging table' component that consists of a TableView but also Labels to show total number of items, starting item number, end item number, LinkButtons for next and previous page, etc. etc. I'd like to be reuse the above component but may want to change the position or alignment of the labels or link buttons or hide them completely. What would be the best way to do this? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Greg Brown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:45:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Components made up of Java class and WTKX markup Hi Cuong, > Let's say I have the class AboutPane [extends BoxPane] and I have the markup file AboutPane.wtkx which has the content > > <mycorp:AboutPane ...> > <Label wtkx:id="version" text="Version 1.0" /> > </mycorp> > > That is, AboutPane always has a Label to display a 'version' value. > > To include in my app, I do a '<wtkx:include src="AboutPane.wtkx />' in my main markup file, but within AboutPane.java, how do I reference the 'version' property from within, say, AboutPane's constructor? If AboutPane implements org.apache.pivot.wtkx.Bindable and declares a Label member as follows, you can get access to the label in the initialize() method: @WTKX private Label version; (the annotation is also defined in org.apache.pivot.wtkx) > Inversely, I can do a '<mycorp:AboutPane />' in my main markup file, but how do tell Pivot to parse and render AboutPane.wtkx (as it automagically includes the version Label)? Not entirely sure what you are looking for, but perhaps you want to use an include? <wtkx:include src="AboutPane.wtkx"/> Hope this helps, Greg
