Chris,
Thanks so much and it works!
Actually, I was trying to inject a series of box pane from the bxml files. Do
I have to use the bxml Serializer repeatedly?Or do I have to use java code
instead of? how to handle the variables in BXML because they have the same
names.?
Brendan
> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:27:47 +0700
> Subject: Re: How to dynamically add component to window
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Brendan,
>
> I think this is your problem.
> > rightScrollPane.add(commentPane);
>
> Try replacing it with
> rightScrollPane.setView(commentPane);
>
>
> Some background if you are interested ...
>
> ScrollPane is an instance of ViewPort, which is in turn an instance of
> Container.
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/ScrollPane.html
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/Viewport.html
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/Container.html
>
> Some Containers (like BoxPane) simply display whatever child
> Components were added to the Sequence<Component> that Container
> provides.
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/BoxPane.html
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/collections/Sequence.html
>
> Others Containers (like ScrollPane) are a little more complex and can
> display additional UI elements. In the case of ScrollPane, it can
> display a 'rowHeader', 'columnHeader', and 'corner' as well as a
> 'view'.
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/ScrollPane.html#setRowHeader(org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component)
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/ScrollPane.html#setColumnHeader(org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component)
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/ScrollPane.html#setCorner(org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component)
> http://pivot.apache.org/2.0/docs/api/org/apache/pivot/wtk/Viewport.html#setView(org.apache.pivot.wtk.Component)
>
> ScrollPane therefore needs to manage the Sequence<Component> provided
> by Container, so you need to tell it what to do with the Components
> that you give to it, rather than adding them to the
> Sequence<Component> directly (which is what
> rightScrollPane.add(commentPane) looks to be doing).
>
> In your example you want to show your 'rightScrollPane' Component as
> the ScrollPane's 'view'.
> 'view' is the default property of ScrollPane (inherited from
> ViewPort). This is defined via the @DefaultProperty annotation.
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/trunk/wtk/src/org/apache/pivot/wtk/Viewport.java
>
> Unfortunately, the DefaultProperty annotation is not shown in the
> Pivot 2.0 Javadocs, but it is always visible in the source code. From
> 2.0.1 (which will hopefully be released soon) the DefaultProperty
> annotation *will* be visible in the Javadocs.
>
> Chris
>
> 2011/9/17 Brendan cheng <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> > I must say I'm totally new to Pivot. I'm trying add a box pane to my
> > window's scroll pane but even the code compiled properly, the box pane just
> > doesn't show up.
> > Here is the snippet from my main program.
> >
> > @Override
> >
> > public void startup(Display display, Map<String, String> properties)
> > throws Exception {
> >
> > String language = properties.get(LANGUAGE_KEY);
> >
> > Locale locale = (language == null) ? Locale.getDefault() : new
> > Locale(language);
> >
> > Resources resources = new Resources(ClientWindow.class.getName(),
> > locale);
> >
> > BXMLSerializer bxmlSerializer = new BXMLSerializer();
> >
> > window =
> > (ClientWindow)bxmlSerializer.readObject(getClass().getResource("client_window.bxml"),
> >
> > resources);
> >
> > ScrollPane rightScrollPane = (ScrollPane)
> > bxmlSerializer.getNamespace().get("rightScrollPane");
> >
> > BoxPane commentPane = null;
> >
> > try {
> >
> > commentPane =
> > (CommentPane)bxmlSerializer.readObject(getClass().getResource("thumbnail/comment_pane.bxml"),
> >
> > resources);
> >
> > } catch (IOException e) {
> >
> > e.printStackTrace();
> >
> > } catch (SerializationException e) {
> >
> > e.printStackTrace();
> >
> > }
> >
> > rightScrollPane.add(commentPane);
> >
> > window.open(display);(display);
> >
> > What do you recommend to do this job in pivot?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Brendan
