com.ibm.commons.swt.data.editors.api
Class AbstractLabelEditor

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

IPropertyEditor

public abstract class AbstractLabelEditor
extends PropertyEditor

An editor that uses a label.

Constructor Summary

AbstractLabelEditor()
Constructs a new instance of this class

Method Summary

org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control	createControl(CompositeEditor parent) This method is called by the PropertyEditor during initialization.
void	initControlValue(CompositeEditor control, 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 control) 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

AbstractLabelEditor

public AbstractLabelEditor()

Constructs a new instance of this class

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

initControlValue

public void initControlValue(CompositeEditor control,
                             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 control)

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:

control - - CompositeEditor

Returns:

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