If the tags were structured differently so they were easier to extend without breaking when new releases of struts come out these issues might not come up. Of course, I myself have resigned myself to this issue since the tags are such a political football on this list.
Edgar > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Leland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:23 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: Editable Fields V/S Static Text > > > Yes, This has been brought up many times over the last 3 > years, and probably has been implemented several times > extending the Struts tags. > > I am not opposed to such a feature, and would support it, > though other committers might not. > > The key argument against it is that it would transform the html tags > into a non-standard > implementation. The html tags are ment to be a thin module > aware layer > over the browsers tags, > and nothing more. That is why we don't have a Calender tag or Date > chooser tag. > Though I suppose if you really --knocked our socks off !-- > with a spiffy > implementation it could > become part of Struts. > > I believe since we still support Netscape 4.X series browsers, a > read-only attribute has > not been added. > > Since struts is trying to get out of the JSP tag business > since 40-50% > of our bugs are there. > which subtracts from our limited time for the core framework. > You might > consider contributing > the tag to http://struts.sf.net > > -Rob > > Chris Gastin wrote: > > >Has anyone considered a feature which toggles between an > editable form > >element and read only text / static text. > > > >I find myself developing JSPs where depending on the Use > Case "fieldA" > >could be an editalbe text box (<input name="fieldA" value="My Text > >Value" > >/>) in Use Case 1 on xyz.jsp and readonly text /static text > in Use Case 2 > >(My Text Value) on the same jsp. Presently I am using the > ><logic:equal></logic:equal> tags. Which get really messy. > Here is some > >sample code. > > > ><logic:equals name="actionForm" property="myFieldEditable" > value="true"> > > <html:text name="actionForm" property"myField" /> </logic:equal> > ><logic:equals name="actionForm" property="myFieldEditable" > value="false"> > > <bean:write name="actionForm" property"myField" /> > ></logic:equal> > > > > > >It would be nice to add an attribute to the current tag libraries, > >which is a boolean, and does this toggling for you. Here is > what I am > >envisioning > > > >If actionForm.myField = "My Text Value"; This tag <html:text > >name="actionForm" property"myField" readOnlyText="true"/> > would output > >"My Text Value". > > > >Where <html:text name="actionForm" property"myField" > >readOnlyText="false"/> the following tag would output <input > >name="fieldA" value="My Text Value" /> > > > >As you can imagine this would not be a huge undertaking to add this > >feature to the current tag libraries in struts. I could use this > >feature, and I am sure other could too. I am willing to > contribute my > >time to the development effort. I am not stuck on the attribute name > >"readOnlyText", and would welcome suggestions. Does this > sound like a > >good idea, and if the answer is yes, what is the next step. > > > >Chris Gastin > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
