Hi Bob,
Thanks, that worked fine. Now I don't have a dependency anymore and the
control can be used anywhere in the application. I preffer to let the
control do the work, adding a extern Decorator makes the Control less
usefull.
Regards Bert
2008/12/2 Bob Schellink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Bert,
>
>
> Bert Heikamp wrote:
>
>>
>> if (parent2 instanceof SimpleTable) {
>>
>> Page page = ((SimpleTable)parent2).getPage();
>>
>> PageImports pageImports = getPage().getPageImports();
>>
>> pageImports.addImport(getControlField());
>>
>> }
>>
>
>
> You could retrieve the parent page as follows:
>
> Page page = ClickUtils.getParentPage(this);
>
> getParentPage will recursively check for the parent Page up the hierarchy.
> This call should always succeed in retrieving the Page.
>
>
> Alternatively you could look at using a Decorator instead of overriding
> render, as that will provide you a callback mechanism to set the field value
> to some default:
>
> final FieldColumn column = new FieldColumn("time", field);
> column.setDecorator(new Decorator() {
>
> public String render(Object row, Context context) {
> Field field = column.getField();
>
> // If field is blank, set default value
> if (StringUtils.isBlank(field.getValueObject())) {
> field.setValue("12:00");
> }
>
> return field.toString();
> }
> });
>
> Will this work in your scenario?
>
> kind regards
>
> bob
>
