Re: JPanel used for graphics

List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products schrieb am 27.03.04 18:16:58:
> 
> It appears that the way to do this is to register a new tag for this 
> subclass of JPanel that I've defined.  Is this the correct approach? 

At least this seems the most reasonable thing to me.
Easy, documented and IMHO well used.

> 
> This got me to thinking about other approaches.  The Swix engine could check 
> to see if a variable to which a tag is bound already has a non-null value.  
> If it's null, then it should create a new instance as it does now.  If it's 
> non-null and it's an instance of the appropriate type, then the xml 
> attributes should be applied to the existing value.  I'm not sure whether 
> it's an easy solution to any other problems, but it would be a simple 
> solution to my subclassing problem. 

Could you please explain this with some (pseudo) code? I do not
grab it...

Frank