Re: no setters for page elements?

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 04:58  AM, David Corbin wrote:

> On Monday 15 September 2003 03:46, Matthew Hixson wrote:
>> I'm just wondering why the generated Java source for my HTML contains
>> getters, but no setters for elements I've defined in a form.  For
>> example, to set the value for the first name on my form I need to do:
>>
>> form.getElementFirstName().setValue("Matt");
>>
>> This is no big deal, but I'm just curious why there isn't a
>> setElementFirstName(String s).  I'm sure there's a good reason.
>
> Which of the dozen tags should have methods generated for them?  
> Value? Type?
> Id? onmouse*()?   All of them would be verry wasteful.
>
> Furthermore, setElementFirstName woud take an Element, not a String.

See?  I knew there was a reason.
   Thanks,
     -M@