Thanks alot Craig. I'll download that and take a look at it. I'll let the list know how it turns out.
Thanks, Ray --- Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:29:01 -0800 (PST), Ray Clark > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Sean. I guess I did misunderstand your > point. > > I have looked at the source for dataTable a little > and > > did find it usefull for fixing a different problem > > that I was having. I'll dig in to it more to see > if I > > can come up with something. > > > > It's a shame that they didn't make the dataTable > more > > flexible to begin with. > > > > I'll keep trying. I'm not giving up on myFaces > and > > JSF. > > > > For folks who think they might need a customized > renderer for the > UIData component (perhaps to create some markup > other than a table), > the JSF RI comes with some demos -- one demo in > particular is a > "Repeater" renderer for UIData that is very easy to > subclass and > extend. It has convenient protected methods for > things like the > beginning and end of each "row" where you just need > to create your own > markup instead of the default. > > Download from: > > > http://java.sun.com/j2ee/javaserverfaces/download.html > > and then check out > "samples/components/src/java/components/renderkit/RepeaterRenderer.java" > > This is a standard JSF renderer, so it should work > on top of MyFaces > as well as the RI. > > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > > Craig > > > > --- Sean Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I think you misunderstood. We're not suggesting > > > that you have to use > > > <h:dataTable>. You're free to use your own > custom > > > component if > > > dataTable is not doing it for you. > > > > > > The suggestion is that you look at how > h:dataTable > > > is implemented in > > > the MyFaces code. There are basic concepts in > there > > > that you can use > > > for your own custom coponent. > > > > > > The main thing is that in dataTable, you > iterrate > > > over the data, not > > > the rows. The rows get added by the component's > > > renderer. In the JSP > > > you just say what goes in the columns and the > rows > > > will be generated > > > as the data is being iterrated over. > > > > > > I'm relatively new to JSF so I can't give you > the > > > specifics but I did > > > learn a little about it when I was implementing > > > forceId so that it > > > could work on components contained in tables, > etc. > > > > > > Just check out the source code and follow along. > It > > > will be a good > > > exercise in understanding some of the more > > > complicated > > > behind-the-scenes aspects of JSF. No need to > panic > > > and drop JSF ;-) > > > You will definitely be able to do what you need > with > > > what is > > > available. > > > > > > > > > sean > > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:08:46 -0800 (PST), Ray > Clark > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > > > > > I don't think that I can use h:dataTable for > my > > > > situation. We have pages that have JSTL ifs > > > around > > > > the rows so that the rows only show up > sometimes > > > based > > > > on the data in the list. For instance, if I > want > > > an > > > > <hr> tag when a control break occurs. I > didn't > > > want > > > > to put smarts in the renderer to check the > data in > > > the > > > > list that was specified. So if I could get > the > > > row > > > > tag to work then I could use the standard > rendered > > > > attribute on the row for this. That makes the > > > > component generic and simple, and yet makes > the > > > custom > > > > tags powerful enough to produce any type of > table > > > that > > > > needs to be generated. > > > > > > > > In addition to the rows only being rendered > > > sometimes, > > > > what about multi line column headings? I > couldn't > > > get > > > > that to work with the h:dataTable because the > > > facet > > > > tag didn't seem to want to render the second > tag. > > > > > > > > Not to mention that the dataTable tag doesn't > > > support > > > > rowspan and colspan which I need to emulate > the > > > tables > > > > that we produce at work. > > > > > > > > So I'd like to get the row tag to work if I > can. > > > If I > > > > can't find a way around this then JSF is out > for > > > us. > > > > > > > > I can't believe that there isn't a way to do > this > > > > somehow. > > > > > > > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > > > > > > > Ray > > > > > > > > --- Martin Marinschek > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > that is exactly the problem - use the > specific > > > JSF > > > > > iterator tags > > > > > (specification: h:dataTable, MyFaces > > > Implementation > > > > > additionally: > > > > > x:dataList) when doing iterations; else you > run > > > into > > > > > problems all > > > > > over... > > > > > > > > > > regards, > > > > > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:00:52 -0500, Sean > > > Schofield > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm not sure about the specifics of your > > > custom > > > > > component so its hard > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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