RE: TEXTAREA element and Barracuda

Hi Jake,
 
Yes...of course...your're correct.
I did think of this.
But there was a reason I implemented my TextArea's this way(and all other
controls for that matter).
 
 
I reuse a single XMLC page... and render the page differently deppending on
the user's rights.
These pages are used strictly for data entry..
 
E.g.
A user needs to enter company information...
let's say ...Company Name...
 
<span class="Dir::Get_Data.ExampleModel.p_companyName">[THE COMPANY]</span>
 
On the 'New' Screen... I'd might have  a simple textBox...
When the user edit's the record on the 'Edit' screen.. I might display a
list(drop down) of registered Companies...
(terrible example)...
 
So.
Instead of having 2 or 3 (New/Edit/View) Tags for a single field on the same
page..
I have a single tag.. 
 
I have a interface that my all my dataAware models implement with mainly 3
methods.
 
public interface HandlePresentation {
  public Object handleDefault(ViewContext vc,String key);
  public Object handleFind(ViewContext vc,String key);
  public Object handleNew(ViewContext vc,String key);
  public Object handleEdit(ViewContext vc,String key, BusinessRule
businessRule);
  public Object handleView(ViewContext vc,String key, BusinessRule
businessRule);
 
  .
  .More methods follow
  .
}
 
Depending on the 'event'.... I call the relevant method...
(handleNew/handleEdit), etc
 
This works great... and really cuts down on the number of tags I need to
define.
The only drawback is that I do hardcode things like javascript and css
styles.
That's about it.
 
Regards
KD
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Kjome [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 02 May 2003 06:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Barracuda] TEXTAREA element and Barracuda



Hi Kirk,

Why not have a <textarea> element with a BTemplate directive and return null
if the condition says that it shouldn't be displayed?  That should remove
the element from the output, if I'm not mistaken.

Jake

At 03:55 PM 5/2/2003 +0200, you wrote:


Hi,

In the example.. I needed to conditionally create the textArea within the
HTML page.
It depends on the users rights..
E.g. 

A user with create or edit rights... would be presented with the textArea
for updating..
A user with only 'View' rights would just see the 'text' without the
textArea being rendered for updating.

Here's the HTML snippet..

<span class="Dir::Get_Data.ExampleModel.Note">[TEXT AREA HERE]</span>

Regards
KD

-----Original Message-----
From: Diez B. Roggisch [ mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> ]
Sent: 02 May 2003 03:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Barracuda] TEXTAREA element and Barracuda


Hi,

Kirk Daries wrote:
> } else if (key.equals("Note")) {
>       Document doc = vc.getTemplateNode().getOwnerDocument();
>       Node targetNode = doc.createElement("TEXTAREA");
>       View view = new DefaultView(targetNode);
>       BComponent b = new BComponent();
>       b.setView(view);
>       b.setName("p_note");
>       b.setAttr("class","TextBox");
>       b.setAttr("id","M,NOTE");
>       b.setAttr("cols","30");
>       b.setAttr("rows","3");
>       return b;

Thats really complicated. In my TextAreaFormElement from the 
repopulation-package I simply return a BText (as Christian pointed out 
before). Then all this rows/cols/whatever stuff can be put in the html.

<textarea class="Dir::Get_Data.ExampleModel.TEXTAREA" rows="3" 
cols="30"></textarea>


Diez


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