On 3/1/06, Chris Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Thanks for the reference, but it doesn't explain very much. > > Yes the widget looks like what I want, but is it something I download?
You lost me. > Is it something that exists in the struts tag libraries? Does the > states collection exist there? What "this"? The collection is created by you in your program. > What happens if I wanted to do states > for Australia for instance, where would I obtain those? I don't know. Australian postal service I guess. > I understand how to write the struts tags to build the list, I don't > quite know how to obtain a reference to a collection I have built and > stored in the servlet context. Have you tried to put collection name in the "name" attribute of <html:optionscollection>? Does it not work? Do you have another object with this name in another scope? Have you looked in the OptionsCollectionTag source code? It uses pageContext.findAttribute(name) to locate a bean by name. Michael. > On 3/1/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/1/06, Chris Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am building a select list to select a state for an address and since > > > it will be used in a few forms throughout the application I want to > > > make this as centralised as possible. > > > > > > I have built a bean with getValue(), getLabel() attributes and created > > > a collection of them and placed as an attribute in the servlet context > > > via a servlet that is loaded on startup. > > > > > > How do I retrieve this for use in the html:optionsCollection tag? > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsWidgets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
