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Thanks,
-jon
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From: "Tony Barrile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:20:53 -0400
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: ECS suggestion
Jon, I would like to submit a suggestion to you regarding the
ConcreteElement class in ECS.
Basically, it would be nice if ConcreteElement had an overriden method for
output(OutputStream), something like
public static void output(OutputStream os, ConcreteElement ce){
.....
}
The reason I make this suggestion is that I am extending various parts of
the API for image-based menus(nav-bars). They are basically contained in a
smart-bean that does some state-toggling. If I want to use the toString
method, I presently need to duplicate code in a few places, and it would be
more advantageous to my application if there was a static output method in
this class.
Here is sample code for what I am doing, so you can see where how it is
useful:
/*note: extending A */
public void output(OutputStream out) {
A tempAnchor = (A) super.clone();
IMG image = (IMG) mImageElement.clone();
if (this.getState().equals(MenuItemState.DOWN)) {
image.addAttribute(ON_LOAD, msOnLoad);
}
tempAnchor.addElement(image);
/*the following can be replaced by:
ConcreteElement.output(out,tempAnchor);*/
String encoding = null;
if ( getCodeSet() != null ){
encoding = getCodeSet();
} else {
encoding = "UTF-16BE";
}
boolean prettyPrint = this.getPrettyPrint();
try{
out.write(createStartTag().getBytes(encoding));
Enumeration enum = tempAnchor.keys();
while(enum.hasMoreElements()){
Object obj = tempAnchor.getElement((String)enum.nextElement());
if(obj instanceof GenericElement){
Element e = (Element)obj;
if (prettyPrint && this instanceof Printable)
if ( getNeedLineBreak() ) {
out.write('\n');
e.setTabLevel(tabLevel + 1);
}
}
e.output(out);
}else{
if (prettyPrint && this instanceof Printable){
if ( getNeedLineBreak() ){
out.write('\n');
putTabs(tabLevel + 1, out);
}
}
String string = obj.toString();
out.write(string.getBytes());
}
}
out.write(createEndTag().getBytes());
}catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee){
uee.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(out));
}catch(IOException ioe) {
ioe.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(out));
}
}
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