Thank you - please let me know how it goes.  :-)

On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Olivier Dutrieux wrote:

> I will test it now :)
> 
> Le 27/08/2010 17:15, Greg Brown a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have just checked in support for this feature. The Property Binding 
>> tutorial includes a demonstration:
>> 
>>   
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/trunk/tutorials/src/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/databinding/property_binding.bxml
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>>   function toUpperCase(value) {
>>       return value.toUpperCase();
>>   }
>> 
>>   <TextInput bxml:id="textInput" Form.label="Text Input"/>
>>   <Label Form.label="Uppercase Text" text="${toUpperCase:textInput.text}"/>
>> 
>> There is also an example of creating a mapping in Java:
>> 
>>   
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/trunk/tutorials/src/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/databinding/PropertyBinding.java
>> 
>> You may notice that I chose to use the "foo:bar" syntax to specify a mapping 
>> function rather than "foo(bar)". I did this for the following reasons:
>> 
>> 1) It is easier to parse.
>> 
>> 2) It doesn't look like a function, whereas "foo(bar)" does. The user might 
>> incorrectly assume that "foo(bar)" is an inline function declaration, which 
>> it is not (it is never actually evaluated by the script engine - the 
>> function referred to by this expression is what is actually evaluated).
>> 
>> 3) It may look like a JavaScript function, but it doesn't look like a Groovy 
>> closure, for example. If Groovy is being used as the page language, this 
>> could be confusing.
>> 
>> Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Greg
>> 
>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

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