Declare listener in SDL???

[Raul_Arabaolaza]

Hi,

I´m amazed by this library, SDL/swing seems a great framework for me
to declare GUI´s in a efective way without too much problem, currently
i´m considering to create a spring Roo addon for it, so you can use
both to quickly generate swing applications using spring, jpa and sdl/
swing.

The first step is to create an example of the kind of app i want to
generate and in this process i´m stuck with listeners, i want my
application to display a entity table and when one row is double
clicked to display a secondary window where the user can see the
details, edit them or delete the record, i can achieve this easily
using formcontroller to retrieve the table and programatically add the
required listener but i would like to know if there´s a declarative
way of doing that, something like the SDL do option for buttons or
menus.

Best regards, Raúl

[Raul_Arabaolaza]

Hi,

After taking a look at the ComponentBuilder source it seems that is
not a very dificult task to implement simply add a new pseudoproperty
like clicked or doubleclicked and copy the code from
handleDoPseudoProperty but adding a mouselistener instead of a
actionlistener, i wonder if you people are interested in a patch??

Regards, Raúl

[Dan Leuck]

Hi Raul,

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you find the library useful.

re: pseudo-properties

Good idea. I'll add the ability for developers to add their own pseudo-
properties via an API to the next release. I plan to push it out over
the weekend.

Best,
Dan

[Raul_Arabaolaza]

Hi Dan,

The ability to plug custom pseudoproperties would be wonderfull, if i
can plug listeners in an declarative way i can easily implement a high
isolated (and testable) swing application using the MVP pattern :)

Regards, Raúl

[Dan Leuck]

Hi Raúl,

I'll add that ability over the weekend and do a release on Monday.

In the meantime, you can always grab a component by its ID and add the listener.

JTable table = (JTable)form.getChildByID("people_table");
// add listeners

...but I agree it would be more elegant if you could do it via SDL.
Note that you can already do this for simple components such as
buttons and combos using the do="methodName" pseudo-property.

Best,
Dan