Re: [udig-devel] small updates ...

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

More small updates (and comment inline).
- working on enable/disable/visibility
- thinking I will let attribute fields always hit the EditFeature; and that would free up listeners *just* for change value and change validation events

Jody

On 05/05/2010, at 4:56 PM, andrea antonello wrote:
> One quick and small question right away: I see the feature editing
> occurs through the DIRTY in the getData object. Then probably the
> value of the component is taken and put into the feature to modify it.
> Doe the superclass traverse all the components searching for that
> attribute?

Actually the isDirty map is not being used; I put it there in case it would help Myles.
Right now each attribute field is calling feature.setAttribute( name, value ) as needed
you can configure them to send on every keypress; or to send  when they lose focus.

> Is it possible for me to tweak that? For example I might have a combo
> with names of cities, but in fact in the feature attribute a code for
> them should be written.

For combo's use the ComboAttributeField; and supply your own
label renderer to the internal ComboViewer (so that your labels
do not have to be codes).

> Example: I see:
> merano, bolzano, trento
> 
> and when I select merano, a 1 should be written in the attribute
> table, in the case of Bolzano a 2 and so on.

Just so; I will update the country feature panel tutorial code to illustrate this case.

> I will get back to you when I went through the code, thanks for the updates,

Yeah jump online and we can do a shared screen review of the country feature panel; it will save you time and I will enjoy the feedback.
Jody

> Andrea
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Second small update:
>> - The Feature View is now done
>> - I added a title bar that shows the FeatureID right now; I could see registering a LabelProvider per FeatureType (ie being able to make nice titles for a feature would be good!)
>> 
>> Moving on to poping up a dialog:
>> - found the correct place for a hook (and am just popping up a message dialog now if there are any panels available
>> - will make a dialog out of the panels tomorrow
>> - will revise IFeatureSite based on the experience
>> 
>> Any questions Andrea? Are you going to manage to look at things?
>> 
>> Jody
>> 
>> On 04/05/2010, at 2:09 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> 
>>> It seems I am too busy to send large updates; so here are a series of small updates on feature panel implementing; mostly for moovida who would like to make his own shortly.
>>> 
>>> Code review with Jesse
>>> - thanks to jesse for code review
>>> - we *could* get away with using PropertyEditor heirarchy (probably) but it forces the use of grid layouer; and we would like to use mig layout. And we are editing attributes and attribute desriptor performs a lot of the validation for us already
>>> -
>>> 
>>> Things for implementors:
>>> - FeaturePanel is an abstract implementation of IFeaturePanel; it offers an implementation of refresh/dispose/etc build around a list of attributefields; you populate that list with an addField method
>>> - keep looking at country feature panel as an example
>>> 
>>> Jody
>> 
>> 
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