Dear Apptaro, Did you go through pivot tutorial one by one?
Best Regards, Prithvi On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Taro App <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Yes, it was very easy and straight forward to build Pivot 1.5. I have > played with Label.TextBindMapping and am very happy about it. > I also consulted this page and understand how it is easy to create a > custom mapping and reuse it in wtkx: > http://ixnay.biz/stock-tracker.data-binding.html > Very nice. > > apptaro > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would definitely recommend using Pivot 1.5. You'll have to build it > from source for now, but that isn't terribly difficult. Let us know if you > have any questions. > > > > Thanks for the info on JSF converters. Sounds like Pivot's converters are > similar, though we currently don't provide any stock implementations. It > would probably make sense to add some. Thanks! > > > > > > On May 24, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Taro App wrote: > > > >> Hi Greg, > >> > >> Thank you for your answers. I was using Pivot 1.4, so I could not find > >> those features you mentioned. If Pivot 1.5 is to be released soon, I > >> will use it to create my prototype. > >> > >> FYI, JSF formatting feature is called converters. Converters convert > >> bound data to string representation on a page, and the other way > >> around. Standard converters are provied out of the box, such as > >> converters to format number or date. For example: > >> > >> <h:inputText value="#{bean.dateData}"><f:convertDateTime > >> pattern="yyyy-MM-dd"/></h:inputText> > >> <h:inputText value="#{bean.numberData}"><f:convertNumber > >> type="currency" currencySymbol="$" > >> groupingUsed="true" maxFractionDigits="2"/></h:inputText> > >> > >> You can also create custom converters. In my JSF application, I use > >> several custom converters. For example, > >> - Converter which does trim() or toUpperCase() on input string value > >> - Converter which converts Boolean data to string Y/N > >> - Converter which convert 16-digit credit card number to hyphenized > format > >> > >> apptaro > > > > >
