Okay, but if I have multiple Window object and I randomly load an object into 
my frame. In this case I have access to only the Container object and if I have 
to suppose disable a button in my window then I need the Button object. And in 
this case I don't have location of bxml file, hence I don't think 
BXMLSerializer can be used.

Thanks

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From: Greg Brown [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 20:53
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: getting object fron its container

Actually, because the BXML ID value is mapped to Component#setName() via the 
IDProperty annotation, you could also get the button in the example below via 
getNamedComponent("Button1").

However, as Chris noted, getNamedComponent() is not recursive. If you want 
access to all values declared with IDs in your BXML file, you should use 
BXMLSerializer.getNamespace().get() or implement Bindable in your root element.

G

On Feb 2, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Chris Bartlett wrote:

The Container#getNamedComponent(String) method is defined here
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/pivot/trunk/wtk/src/org/apache/pivot/wtk/Container.java

You can see that it only iterates over the direct child Components in the 
Container and then checks for a matching name property.
It does *not* check to see if those Components are actually instances of 
Container, and then recursively iterate over them.

It appears that none of the standard Pivot Containers override this method at 
look into child Containers, so you would need to roll your own method if you 
need to do that.


Bear in mind that theContainer#getNamedComponent(String) method attempts to 
match against Component#getName().
BXMLSerializer sets the Component's name property to the same value as the 
bxml:id as a convenience, but these are 2 separate values.

The Component's name can be set explicity in BXML as follows.
<PushButton bxml:id="Button1" name="Foo" buttonData="%Button1”/>
or in java (including at runtime) with
myComponent.setName("Foo");

If you wanted to find this PushButton by name you would have to supply a value 
of "Foo", and not "Button1"


It will often be more convenient to use the @BXML annotation to pick up objects 
in your code.
The section titled 'The Bindable Interface' in the following tutorial contains 
more info.
http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/stock-tracker.ui.html

Chris

On 2 February 2011 17:43, Aanjaneya Shukla 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
I am having some issues using ‘getNamedComponent’ method.

BXML file:
<PushButton bxml:id="Button1" buttonData="%Button1”/>

Java file:
PushButton Button1 = (PushButton)window.getNamedComponent("Button1");

I want to get Button object but I have getting null value returned.


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