This example works because the <Label> tags are direct descendants of
<Form.Section>. In your example, they were descendants of the <Border>.
On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Shahzad Bhatti wrote:
> Thanks, I modeled it after stocktracker.detail.wtkx that uses similar Label
> with Form.label, such as:
>
>
> <BoxPane wtkx:id="rootPane" orientation="vertical" styles="{fill:true}"
> xmlns:wtkx="http://pivot.apache.org/wtkx";
> xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
> <Label textKey="companyName" styles="{font:{size:12, bold:true}}"/>
> <Separator/>
> <Form styles="{rightAlignLabels:true, fill:true}">
> <sections>
> <Form.Section>
> <Label Form.label="%value" textKey="value"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> <Label wtkx:id="changeLabel" Form.label="%change"
> textKey="change"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> <Label Form.label="%openingValue" textKey="openingValue"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> <Label Form.label="%highValue" textKey="highValue"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> <Label Form.label="%lowValue" textKey="lowValue"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> <Label Form.label="%volume" textKey="volume"
> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
> </Form.Section>
> </sections>
> </Form>
> </BoxPane>
>
> Why does above example work? Also, I removed Border and replaced with BoxPane.
>
>
> On 4/14/10 3:30 PM, "Greg Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I assume you are using Pivot 1.4? The problem is that the Label instances are
> not direct descendants of the Form.Section. In Pivot 1.4 and earlier, this
> throws an exception. In Pivot 1.5+, an exception is not thrown, but you still
> won't see the labels attached to your Label elements - forms only recognize
> labels attached to section children.
>
> Also, a Border can only have one content element. You'll need to nest a
> layout container in the Border instance if you want to display multiple child
> elements.
>
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Shahzad Bhatti wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use Label along with Form such as
>> <BoxPane
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'left'}">
>> <Form
>> wtkx:id="form" styles="{rightAlignLabels:true, fill:true}">
>> <sections>
>>
>> <Form.Section>
>>
>> <Border styles="{backgroundColor:null, padding:2}">
>>
>> <content>
>>
>> <Label Form.label="name" textKey="name" styles="{font:{size:12,
>> bold:true}}"/>
>>
>> </content>
>>
>> </Border>
>>
>> </Form.Section>
>>
>> <Form.Section>
>>
>> <Border styles="{backgroundColor:null, padding:2}">
>>
>> <content>
>>
>> <Label Form.label="symbol" textKey="symbol"
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
>>
>> <Label Form.label="bid" textKey="bid"
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
>>
>> <Label Form.label="ask" textKey="ask"
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
>>
>> <Label wtkx:id="changeLabel" Form.label="change" textKey="change"
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
>>
>> <Label Form.label="isExchangeDelayed" textKey="exchangeDelayed"
>> styles="{horizontalAlignment:'right'}"/>
>>
>> </content>
>>
>> </Border>
>>
>> </Form.Section>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> But I am getting following error:
>> Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>> at
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>> at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) ... 19 more
>> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException at
>> org.apache.pivot.wtk.Form.setLabel(Unknown Source) ... 23 more
>>
>>
>> Looking at the source, this happens when the attributes of component are
>> null. Any idea how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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