In that case, your problem is you're going through the elements, not
through the attributes.
At 11:50 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Here's the trick:
>
> The attributes will be defined by someone else using the class,
>so the attributes will not be static. Any attributes could be set
>in the format class, and I need to copy them. I want this to be
>generic as possible, so I can loop through a set of TD's, set a
>condition to modify a format, then apply that format to only those
>records that need it. I can't just call setBgColor on all the TD's,
>unless I do some tricks with reflexion to pass the name of the method
>call. I want this to be simple and easy for a user.
>
> So, my question still remains:
>
> How do I copy these attributes from one TD to another?
>
> I've tried to create a ConcreteElement and do it like this:
>
> TD data = new TD("Foo");
> TD format = new TD();
> format.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
>
> Enumeration formatEKeys = format.attributes();
> ConcreteElement ce = new ConcreteElement();
> while (formatEKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
> String o = (String) formatEKeys.nextElement();
> System.out.println (o);
> String value = format.getAttribute(o);
> System.out.println (value);
> ce.addElementToRegistry (o, value);
> System.out.println (ce);
> data.addElement (ce);
> }
> System.out.println (data);
>
> I get the following result:
>
>bgcolor
>#FFFFCC
><>#FFFFCC</>
><td>Foo<>#FFFFCC</></td>
>
> Almost, but not quite. Can someone help me clean up this
>code so it produces:
>
> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC">Foo</td>
>
> Thanks yet again.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Klaus Sonnenleiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > You could probably get to where you want to go by looping through the
> > attributes and copying them one by one. But it seems
> > unnecessary to me. You
> > could also create classes that inherit from TD and set some
> > defaults, like this
> >
> > class JimsOwnTD extends TD {
> > JimsOwnTD() {
> > this("default")
> > }
> >
> > JimsOwnTD(String s) {
> > super(s);
> > this.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
> > }
> >
> > //override other methods here
> > }
> >
> > Then, instead of creating two separate TDs, you'll create
> > only one JimsOwnTD:
> >
> > JimsOwnTD jotd = JimsOwnTD("Foo");
> >
> > and it should inherit what you need.
> >
> > Klaus
> >
> > At 10:48 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, Nemesh, Jim wrote:
> >
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jeremy W. Redmond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:00 AM
> > > > To: ECS Users List
> > > > Subject: Re: Help for a new user - Working with elements
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Posting the code snippet that you are trying might be helpful.
> > >
> > > Here's the basic idea:
> > >
> > > TD data = new TD("Foo");
> > > TD format = new TD();
> > > format.setBgColor("#FFFFCC");
> > > Enumeration formatEKeys = format.attributes();
> > > while (formatEKeys.hasMoreElements()) {
> > > String o = (String) formatEKeys.nextElement();
> > > System.out.println (o);
> > > String value = format.getAttribute(o);
> > > System.out.println (value);
> > > // do something to create an element with
> > these values and
> > >add it to data.
> > > }
> > >
> > > This should take the format information (backround
> > color) from the
> > >format
> > >TD object, and put it in the first TD object.
> > >
> > > The question is, what goes after the comment line?
> > Should I be
> > >making a
> > >ConcreteElement, or GenericElement? If so, how would I go
> > about doing this?
> > >
> > > Why am I doing this? I'm building some generic
> > ways to create
> > >tables from other objects
> > >and provide ways to format the cells and rows of the tables
> > after the TD
> > >objects have already
> > >been created, or provide multiple levels of formatting (for
> > example one test
> > >would say that if
> > >the data included the word "Foo", the backround would be
> > red, and if the
> > >data contained the word
> > >"Bar" as well, it would do something else.)
> > >
> > > -Jim Nemesh
> > >
> > >
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