Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-07 Thread Bryan Hunt
] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list of investigations and experiments. I've written quite a bit to struts 1.1. Is there a downside to upgrading? Thanks

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Navjot Singh
Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What is your question? At 05:17 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
? -Original Message- From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:29 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What is your question? At 05:17 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Matthew Van Horn
to wondering about what (weird stuff) I can do in Struts. -Original Message- From: Michael McGrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 5:12 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: very dynamic forms Well, given that he started with struts/tiles how you

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
That makes sense, but his other comments seem to negate that. He says, e.g., that [w]hat would come out of the query would be label, form position, variable name,etc, etc.. These are things that are on the page form, not on some dynamic class handling the form. He specifically rejects

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Dean A. Hoover
What I need to do is construct a form that has a variety of text input forms on it that are determined at run-time. I know how to do this in jsp but I need to provide an ActionForm that conforms to that form. I got several useful replies last night and am investigating them. Dean Michael McGrady

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Kevin A. Palfreyman
. Good luck, Kev -Original Message- From: Dean A. Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2004 15:47 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What I need to do is construct a form that has a variety of text input forms

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Dean A. Hoover
A. Hoover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2004 15:47 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What I need to do is construct a form that has a variety of text input forms on it that are determined at run-time. I know how to do this in jsp but I need to provide

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Niall Pemberton
, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list of investigations and experiments. I've written quite a bit to struts 1.1. Is there a downside to upgrading? Thanks. Dean Kevin A. Palfreyman wrote

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Dean A. Hoover
- From: Dean A. Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list of investigations and experiments. I've

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Mailing List Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What I need to do is construct a form that has a variety of text input forms on it that are determined at run-time. I know how to do this in jsp but I need to provide an ActionForm that conforms to that form. I got several useful replies last night

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Niall Pemberton
Object bean = TagUtils.getInstance().lookup(pageContext, name, null); Niall - Original Message - From: Dean A. Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 5:34 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Most changes I've been making

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
At 07:46 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote: What I need to do is construct a form that has a variety of text input forms on it that are determined at run-time. I know how to do this in jsp but I need to provide an ActionForm that conforms to that form. I got several useful replies last night and am

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list of investigations and experiments. I've written quite a bit to struts 1.1

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
At 11:54 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote: How do map based forms farm the values from the request? I know, by the bye, about bean:write name=formBean property=value(key)/ etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread bryan
- there are IMO lots of little ones that make this a good upgrade. Niall - Original Message - From: Dean A. Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
of big killer features - there are IMO lots of little ones that make this a good upgrade. Niall - Original Message - From: Dean A. Hoover To: Struts Users Mailing List Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Dean A. Hoover
: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list o f investigations and experiments. I've written quite a bit to struts 1.1. Is there a downside to upgrading? Thanks. Dean Kevin A. Palfreyman wrote

RE: Very Dynamic Forms

2004-08-06 Thread Richard Mixon (qwest)
Michael, I've enclosed excerpts form my ActionForm, Action and JSP - hope the following helps. The excerpts are from my actual source (had to change name in some cases), but I cannot send the entire source. BTW, when I looked I used an array for the field/column names and a map for the selection

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-06 Thread Michael McGrady
: Re: very dynamic forms Thanks. I am looking at Niall's Lazy stuff, but I like your idea. I will add it to my list of investigations and experiments. I've written quite a bit to struts 1.1. Is there a downside to upgrading? Thanks. Dean Kevin A. Palfreyman wrote: Dean

very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Dean A. Hoover
Suppose I want to construct a form based on a query to a database. What would come out of the query would be label, form position, variable name, etc, etc. What would be the recommended way of building this under struts/tiles? I've been working with struts/tiles for a while now and this is the

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Michael McGrady
I cannot quite tell what your problem or question is, Dean Hoover. I don't see, further, what struts/tiles has to do with building a dynamic form. You have a form in a file and that form may be constructed dynamically. This is irrelevant to the tiles aspect of struts. What are you really

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Dean A. Hoover
Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built dynamically according to struts config. I want to build one on-the-fly according to

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Kishore Senji
See section 4.3.2 in http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/building_controller.html Thanks, Kishore Senji. On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:17:17 -0400, Dean A. Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Niall Pemberton
How about Lazy DynaBeans: http://www.niallp.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/#lazydynabean Niall - Original Message - From: Dean A. Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:17 AM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Sorry, I thought

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Dean A. Hoover
, August 06, 2004 1:17 AM Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built dynamically according to struts

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Dean A. Hoover
Subject: Re: very dynamic forms Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built dynamically according to struts config. I want to build one

Re: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Michael McGrady
What is your question? At 05:17 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built dynamically according to struts

RE: very dynamic forms

2004-08-05 Thread Matthew Van Horn
Subject: Re: very dynamic forms What is your question? At 05:17 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: Sorry, I thought I stated it plainly. Forget about tiles. I think what I need is Map Backed Action Forms, but am not sure where to look for an example. DynaActionForms look like classes that are just built