Re: Re: SwiXML and FormLayout

This is a good point,
I would also like to put my vote for making ConstraintsConverter
pluggable (registerable) ;)

Regards
Vitali

2005/6/24, [email protected] <[email protected]>:
> Hello
> 
> First of all .. thanks for swixml ..
> 
> I very much like the swixml-forms "hack".
> I am trying to rewrite it so it can be plugged in into swixml but I am
> afraid this will requires some changes to swixml. The current aproach I have chosen is to create new classes
> for the LayoutConverter to support the the fromlayout and the ConstraintsConverter to support
> formlayout constraints and then registering them to swixml
> 
> my now working xml looks like this
> <panel layout="formlayout('pref,2dlu,pref,min','pref,2dlu,pref')">
>    <label labelfor="name" text="Date format"  constraints="xy(1,1)"/>
>     ..shorted...
> </panel>
> 
> I have managed to overide the  LayoutConverter by registering it a as LayoutManager converter.
> ConverterLibrary.getInstance().register(LayoutManager.class,new FormLayoutConverter());
> 
> but for the ConstraintsConverter I can not do the same since that class is not a real converter
> (doen't implement the interface and is not registered in the converters).
> Therefore I had to change the Parser.java so it uses my "overidden"  ConstraintsConverter.
> Whould the swixml author accept a patch so that the
> ConstraintsConverter can also be plugged in?
> 
> greetings
> 
> P.S. It looks like that when you use a frame as container it is not possible to change the layoutmanager of the frame you eeded to put a panel in the frame.
> 
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