My knowledge of Pivot is not very good but for what it's worth, I maintain a generic java business objects library and have the problem of things being transferred between UI and back end objects using strings even though the native types are not always strings. I simply forced all business objects to have a string setter function as standard and managed to make it generic enough not to be a pain in the arse.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:39:40 pm Greg Brown wrote: > Yeah. See my most recent reply. Suggesting the styles element was an > error on my part. :-P It works in some cases, but not here. > > We could potentially add a getType(K):Class<?> method to Dictionary, > but that doesn't seem right: Dictionary is already a generic, so we > should know what its value type is. We might define a TypedDictionary > interface that extends Dictionary, but that also seems a little hokey. > Maybe there is an elegant way to do it, though...I'll give it some > thought. Suggestions welcome. > > G > > On Aug 4, 2009, at 10:28 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > > Yep the styles attribute worked. Using the styles element showed a > > runtime > > error of: > > > > padding" is not a valid style for org.apache.pivot.wtk.BoxPane#2 > > > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:14:02 pm Greg Brown wrote: > >> Try setting it via the styles attribute and you should see the > >> expected behavior. Seems like there might be an issue setting it > >> via a > >> styles element. > >> > >> On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > >>> Tried right/left top/bottom and the buttons were up against the > >>> window border. > >>> > >>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:22:34 am Greg Brown wrote: > >>>> You might not see the effect padding has since you are using center > >>>> alignments. Try right or left (or top/bottom). > >>>> > >>>> On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Scott Lanham wrote: > >>>>> I am playing with the Toggle Buttons part of the tutorial. After > >>>>> changes the > >>>>> WTKX file looks like: > >>>>> > >>>>> <Window title="Toggle Buttons" maximized="true" > >>>>> xmlns:wtkx="http://pivot.apache.org/wtkx"; > >>>>> xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content" > >>>>> xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> > >>>>> <content> > >>>>> <BoxPane> > >>>>> <styles padding="100" horizontalAlignment="center" > >>>>> verticalAlignment="center"/> > >>>>> <PushButton toggleButton="true"> > >>>>> <buttonData> > >>>>> <content:ButtonData text="Anchor" > >>>>> icon="@clock.png"/> > >>>>> </buttonData> > >>>>> </PushButton> > >>>>> <PushButton toggleButton="true"> > >>>>> <buttonData> > >>>>> <content:ButtonData text="Cup"/> > >>>>> </buttonData> > >>>>> </PushButton> > >>>>> <PushButton toggleButton="true"> > >>>>> <buttonData> > >>>>> <content:ButtonData text="Star"/> > >>>>> </buttonData> > >>>>> </PushButton> > >>>>> </BoxPane> > >>>>> </content> > >>>>> </Window> > >>>>> > >>>>> Even with a padding of 100 it doesn't appear to do anything > >>>>> different from not > >>>>> having padding specified at all. > >>>>> > >>>>> And yes I do like to try and break code, it makes it more fun to > >>>>> learn that > >>>>> way :-) > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:36:10 am Todd Volkert wrote: > >>>>>>> Just a quick question, what does padding do? I change the values > >>>>>>> and > >>>>>>> nothing > >>>>>>> appears to change. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> To what component are you applying the padding style? The > >>>>>> component's skin > >>>>>> defines what styles it supports, by virtue of providing bean > >>>>>> properties, so > >>>>>> note that there are some component's for which padding is not a > >>>>>> supported > >>>>>> style. For containers that support it, it generally means that > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> child > >>>>>> component(s) will be laid out inset from the container, and for > >>>>>> non-containers that support it (such as Label), it generally > >>>>>> means > >>>>>> that > >>>>>> their content (such as a label's text) will be inset from the > >>>>>> boundaries of > >>>>>> the component. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -T
