com.ibm.commons.swt.data.editors
Class PrimitiveCollectionEditor

java.lang.Object
  com.ibm.commons.swt.data.editors.api.PropertyEditor
      com.ibm.commons.swt.data.editors.PrimitiveCollectionEditor

All Implemented Interfaces:

IPropertyEditor

public class PrimitiveCollectionEditor
extends PropertyEditor

Editor for adding and removing primitives to/from the model. The primative is defined via PrimitiveCollectionNode.

See Also:

PrimitiveCollectionNode

Constructor Summary

PrimitiveCollectionEditor(PrimitiveCollectionNode node)
Constructs a new instance of this class given the PrimitiveCollectionNode that is to be used to add and delete primitives.

Method Summary

org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control	createControl(CompositeEditor parent) This method is called by the PropertyEditor during initialization.
void	handleDeleteButton(int index) Invoked when the delete button is pressed.
void	initControlValue(CompositeEditor parent, java.lang.String value) Set the given value into the control created for this property editor.
void	setId(java.lang.String id) Allows the implementor to associate an ID attribute with this control.
boolean	stopEdit(CompositeEditor parent) Called to tell the current editor to stop editing the associated attribute.

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.commons.swt.data.editors.api.PropertyEditor

addPropertyEditorUpdateListener, addValidator, callDialog, getContextAttribute, getContextObject, getDefaultEditor, getDialogButtonAltText, getDialogButtonImage, getDialogButtonText, getEditor, getRenderedValue, getScriptMode, getTextValidator, getValidator, getWorkBenchPart, hasDialogButton, isScriptModeFixed, postModelUpdate, preModelUpdate, removePropertyEditorUpdateListener, setContextAttribute, setContextObject, setScriptMode, setValidator, setWorkBenchPart

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PrimitiveCollectionEditor

public PrimitiveCollectionEditor(PrimitiveCollectionNode node)

Constructs a new instance of this class given the PrimitiveCollectionNode that is to be used to add and delete primitives.

Parameters:

node -

Method Detail

createControl

public org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control createControl(CompositeEditor parent)

Description copied from class: PropertyEditor

This method is called by the PropertyEditor during initialization. This method creates the control that is used by the PropertyEditor to edit the associated property.

Specified by:

createControl in class PropertyEditor

Parameters:

parent - - The parent of the control

Returns:

Control - The 'control' used to edit this property (control is used liberally here as a composite of controls could be returned).

setId

public void setId(java.lang.String id)

Description copied from class: PropertyEditor

Allows the implementor to associate an ID attribute with this control. This may be of use later when trying to identify the control.

Specified by:

setId in class PropertyEditor

handleDeleteButton

public void handleDeleteButton(int index)

Invoked when the delete button is pressed.

Parameters:

index - the index of the primitive in the collection

initControlValue

public void initControlValue(CompositeEditor parent,
                             java.lang.String value)

Description copied from class: PropertyEditor

Set the given value into the control created for this property editor.

Specified by:

initControlValue in class PropertyEditor

See Also:

CompositeEditor

stopEdit

public boolean stopEdit(CompositeEditor parent)

Description copied from class: PropertyEditor

Called to tell the current editor to stop editing the associated attribute. Typically this will be called when the current CompositeEditor has lost focus.

Specified by:

stopEdit in class PropertyEditor

Parameters:

parent - - CompositeEditor

Returns:

boolean - returns true if the operation succeeded, otherwise returns false.