Hi all, > My application is not GUI centric, and I don't want to make the GUI the main > part of the application. > > How can I pass variables back from DesktopApplicationContext or start a > pivot application without DesktopApplicationContext?
Under trunk (for Pivot-2.1.0, still in development) I put some new classes related to this: ApplicationWithProperties and ApplicationWithPropertiesTest . Take a look and tell us if there is something that should be updated/improved, even for your needs. Note that some month ago I put some test Groovy scripts and classes under Pivot-Stuff ( http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/pivot-stuff/ ) in the project pivot-stuff-common-groovy ... under scripts and test you can find some minimal example fro using Pivot in a little different way. As soon as I find some time I should update these examples (or add others) using the new method added in ApplicationWithProperties , so for example I could get GroovyClassLoader from Groovy and set into Pivot application, etc ... I hope this can help you. Bye, Sandro 2014/1/21 Mark R. Chambers <m...@mrchambers.org>: > Hi Roger, > > > > Thanks for your reply. Previously I was using Swing and my own XML parser > to create the GUI. So it was called with for example GUIPanel mGUIPanel = > new GUIPanel() from my main application class that controlled various > devices and the database connections; > > Then I could just access the MGUIPanel.mState information etc… > > The application can be run headless, so sometimes there is not a GUI, but I > guess I can hack around that… > > > > I can probably modify the DesktopApplicationContext.main (to maybe > mainReturn) to return, a reference to the application return type(Just calls > main and then returns the reference….) > > Or I could change the architecture to have it GUI centric… It just that my > diagrams would then need to change… and they would not look at neat:] > > > > Anyway I think your answer is, that currently it is not supported:] It would > be a nice feature, since probably not everybody wants to use Pivot from > main… > > > > PS-Thanks for the Pivot Framework, I like the code;] Although the > documentation still needs massive amounts of work;] And the Component > Explorer needs to be finished;] > > PS2- If I get some time I will start adding to the Wiki… to try to minimise > the learning cliff;] > > Regards, > > Mark. > > > > From: Roger L. Whitcomb [mailto:roger.whitc...@actian.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2014 1:35 AM > To: user@pivot.apache.org > Subject: RE: How to Run Application without DesktopApplicationContext > > > > Hi Mark, > > Welcome to Pivot. I’m sorry that you’re having trouble, but > let me see if I can help. To start with, could you tell me what the > original application was written in (i.e., what GUI framework you were > using)? How did you pass information back and forth between the GUI and the > main application before (i.e., was it some kind of RPC, or what)? > > Currently Pivot has just two modes of operation: as a > desktop app, or as a browser applet. These two would use > DesktopApplicationContext and BrowserApplicationContext. There is probably > no real reason we couldn’t have a third type of application (maybe an > “EmbeddedApplicationContext” that would act more like the GUI object that > you’re talking about). At this moment I wouldn’t know exactly how to go > about writing such a class, but I don’t know of any technical reason why it > couldn’t be done. At some point you have to hook into AWT and connect to a > GUI widget and the event handling (event loop) for it, but that (I’m pretty > sure) could be wrapped in a slightly different way than > DesktopApplicationContext does it (which pretty much assumes it is the main > program of the application), but maybe more like BrowserApplicationContext > (which obviously is assuming it is wrapped inside a browser as an applet). > > There should be no reason you couldn’t pass application > arguments even to a DesktopApplicationContext via the command line stuff > even now. Or if you are using a message bus, or some other RPC mechanism, > why you couldn’t use that with Pivot also. Unless I’m misunderstanding the > way your app is architected. So, maybe you could explain a bit more. > > Again, thanks for trying Pivot, and I hope we can get you > going! > > > > ~Roger > > > > From: Mark R. Chambers [mailto:m...@mrchambers.org] > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 6:11 AM > To: user@pivot.apache.org > Subject: How to Run Application without DesktopApplicationContext > > > > Hi Pivot, > > > > My application is not GUI centric, and I don't want to make the GUI the main > part of the application. > > How can I pass variables back from DesktopApplicationContext or start a > pivot application without DesktopApplicationContext? > > > > BACKGROUND: > > I have an existing application and I am replacing the GUI component with > Pivot, it is a component of a much larger application. I previously just had > a GUI object that I called and it made the GUI etc. and I could pass state > information and values back to the main application. Is there any way to do > this with pivot? Or do I need to modify the pivot src? (Or choose another > GUI option, although I have battled with pivot for 3 days. to convert my > GUI, and now find out that I can't seem to be able to get any variables back > to the main program.) > > > > Regards, > > Mark > >
