Re: [ptp-dev] Questions about widgets in JAXB plugin

[Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Al
1) Yes, I agree the boolean should map
to an arbitrary string pair. Specifying it as an element for the widget
type is fine.
2) For radio buttons, are you saying
in point 5 that the type of the value saved in saveValueTo is determined
by the type of  saveValueType? If so, then I think what you describe
is ok.
Dave

Re: [ptp-dev] Questions about widgets in JAXB plugin

Albert L. Rossi

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Parallel Tools Platform general developers

05/27/2011 02:11 AM

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Dave,

I'd like to ask a couple of clarifications before I proceed.


> 1) I defined a widget as a checkBox, which assumes that the attribute
> where the value is stored is a boolean. I'm using this to represent
a PE 
> environment variable which accepts yas and no as valid values. Is
there 
> any way to translate an attribute value of true/false to yes/no?

I may as well make the translation map to an abitrary string-pair (yes,
no; y,n; T,F; 0,1), whose type depends on the property or attribute being
written to. While I imagine this is limited to checkboxes, it would be
easiest just to include it on the <widget> because otherwise I need
to add another type. So on the widget we would have an element: <represent-boolean-as>yes,no</represent-boolean-as>,
for instance.

> 2) Is there an example of how I would code a group of radio buttons?
I 
> coded the following which resulted in displaying the radio buttons
but no 
> labels were associated with them. I'm also not sure where to code
the 
> saveValueTo, since if I coded it in the radio button definition then
both 
> radio buttons would click on or off together.

Tell me if this specifies the widget-group adequately:

1.  Limited to radio buttons
2.  Each button has a label
3.  The group itself has a "saveValueTo".
4.  When the button is selected, the value for saveValueTo comes from
the button's label.
5.  The group label type would be determined by the property or attribute
written to.

Thanks,
Al

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