On 9/7/05, Jan Bols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had the same problem and ended up extending the HtmlSelectManyCheckbox
component. I added a "columns" attribute where you can specify the number
of columns you want the selectManyCheckbox to use. Like this:
<cc:selectManyCheckbox
layout="pageDirection"
columns="2">
<f:selectItems value="#{mySelectItems}"/>
</cc:selectManyCheckbox>
You can find the sourcecode on http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsf-comp
but there's also a jar that you can add to WEB-INF/lib directory. The jar
file is found on http://www.ivpv.ugent.be/~jan/myfacessandbox.jar. The jar
file is for use with the nightly version (so not the 1.0.9 version) of
myfaces dating from 2005-08-15 but with a bit of luck it should also work
with the current nightly version of myfaces.
You can find a working example of this on
https://www.ivpv.ugent.be/contact/new.faces?lang=en . Also on
http://www.ivpv.ugent.be/~jan/selectTest.jsp you can find a jsf file to
get you started...
Hope this helps.
Jan
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:19:36 +0200, Ken Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to find a way to render the checkboxes in HtmlSelectManyCheckbox
> in a
> format other than a single horizontal or vertical row. My first thought
> was
> to extend HtmlSelectManyCheckbox and make a new attribute called "width"
> and
> use this in conjunction with the "layout" attribute as follows:
>
> <h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{backingBean.someArray}"
> layout="pageDirection" width="3">
> <f:selectItems value="#{backingBean.someSelectItems}"/>
> </h:selectManyCheckbox>
>
> would produce
>
> [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x]
> etc.
>
> and
>
> <h:selectManyCheckbox value="#{backingBean.someArray}"
> layout="lineDirection" width="3">
> <f:selectItems value="#{backingBean.someSelectItems}"/>
> </h:selectManyCheckbox>
>
> would produce
>
> [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] etc.
> [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]
> [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] [x]
>
> Is there better way to accomplish this? Should I be thinking about using
> SelectItemGroups? I'm ultimately trying to create a 2 X 2 set of
> checkboxes.
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
