pt.moredata.widgets
Class ComponentTypeEditor

java.lang.Object
  java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport
      pt.moredata.widgets.ComponentTypeEditor

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.beans.PropertyEditor

public class ComponentTypeEditor

extends java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport

Description of the Class

Author:

aricardo

Constructor Summary

ComponentTypeEditor()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getAsText() Gets the property value as a string suitable for presentation to a human to edit.
java.lang.String	getJavaInitializationString() This method is intended for use when generating Java code to set the value of the property.
java.lang.String[]	getTags() If the property value must be one of a set of known tagged values, then this method should return an array of the tag values.
java.lang.Object	getValue() Gets the value of the property.
void	setAsText(java.lang.String s) Sets the property value by parsing a given String.
void	setValue(java.lang.Object o) Set (or change) the object that is to be edited.

Methods inherited from class java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport

addPropertyChangeListener, firePropertyChange, getCustomEditor, isPaintable, paintValue, removePropertyChangeListener, supportsCustomEditor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ComponentTypeEditor

public ComponentTypeEditor()

Method Detail

getTags

public java.lang.String[] getTags()

If the property value must be one of a set of known tagged values, then this method should return an array of the tag values. This can be used to represent (for example) enum values. If a PropertyEditor supports tags, then it should support the use of setAsText with a tag value as a way of setting the value.

Returns:

The tag values for this property. May be null if this property cannot be represented as a tagged value.

setValue

public void setValue(java.lang.Object o)

Set (or change) the object that is to be edited.

getValue

public java.lang.Object getValue()

Gets the value of the property.

Returns:

The value of the property.

getAsText

public java.lang.String getAsText()

Gets the property value as a string suitable for presentation to a human to edit.

Returns:

The property value as a string suitable for presentation to a human to edit.

Returns "null" is the value can't be expressed as a string.

If a non-null value is returned, then the PropertyEditor should be prepared to parse that string back in setAsText().

setAsText

public void setAsText(java.lang.String s)

Sets the property value by parsing a given String. May raise java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if either the String is badly formatted or if this kind of property can't be expressed as text.

getJavaInitializationString

public java.lang.String getJavaInitializationString()

This method is intended for use when generating Java code to set the value of the property. It should return a fragment of Java code that can be used to initialize a variable with the current property value.

Example results are "2", "new Color(127,127,34)", "Color.orange", etc.

Returns:

A fragment of Java code representing an initializer for the current value.