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Re: [ptp-dev] Questions about widgets in JAXB plugin
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----- Dave Wootton <dwootton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Dave,
yes to 2). I will proceed with this today. -Al
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> Re: [ptp-dev] Questions about widgets in JAXB plugin
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> Albert L. Rossi
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> Parallel Tools Platform general developers
> 05/27/2011 02:11 AM
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> Dave,
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> I'd like to ask a couple of clarifications before I proceed.
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> > 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
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> Tell me if this specifies the widget-group adequately:
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Al
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