Yeah.  Normally I spin thru a container and look for a certain object type
and apply a common listener.

I thought I could skip that by having an attribute on the Checkbox element.



Bob

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Right. They are intentionally decoupled, because multiple UI elements can
> invoke the same action (e.g. a toolbar button, a menu item, and a
> keystroke).
>
> Sounds like you may want to instantiate a common ButtonPressListener and
> add it to the button press listener list of each checkbox.
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>
> Actually, Action() doesn't have a reference to the object performing the
> action.
>
> Cant use it.
>
> Bob
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Robert Piotrowski <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> OK.  so I populate the Action.NamedActionDictionary with an action called
>> "onCheckoff", and I can apply that to all checkboxes by setting the action
>> property to "onCheckoff" ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Robert Piotrowski <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> so i can't have the same action called "onClick" for all my checkboxes in
>>> a tablepane?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, action names must be unique, and they must have already been
>>>> established before you load your WTKX file. Otherwise, the action name in
>>>> the <Window.ActionMapping> element won't resolve.
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Robert Piotrowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One more thing.....do named actions have to be unique?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Robert Piotrowski <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was looking at menubars here:
>>>>> http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/menu-bars.html
>>>>>
>>>>> .....and I think the "action mapping" is what I was looking for a while
>>>>> ago when i was looking for a way to bind my java eventhandlers to the
>>>>> componets defined in wtkx without having to fish them out specifically by 
>>>>> ID
>>>>> and adding them to the listerner collections for each component (ie, 
>>>>> adding
>>>>> click handlers to a dynamic list of checkboxes).
>>>>>
>>>>> Can i do it this way?
>>>>>
>>>>> Or am I assuming something?
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I call Action.getNamedActions() anytime after the serializer loads
>>>>> the wtkx file?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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