project35.desktopDeployment
Class EditFieldView

java.lang.Object
  project35.desktopDeployment.DataFieldView
      project35.desktopDeployment.EditFieldView

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.awt.event.ActionListener, java.util.EventListener, ContextHelpItem

Direct Known Subclasses:

CombinationFieldView, DateFieldView, DateTimeFieldView, RadioFieldView, SelectColourFieldView, TabletTextFieldView, TextFieldView, URIFieldView

public abstract class EditFieldView
extends DataFieldView
implements java.awt.event.ActionListener

The view that renders edit fields. Takes care of things common to all edit fields including aspects of units and validation.

Copyright (c) 2008 Kevin Garwood for Project35. The original code was developed by Kevin Garwood for the University of Manchester. Revisions have been made for Project35, a project that is independent of that institution. This code is licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. The code attribution for the original code is included here:

Copyright (c) Kevin Garwood and University of Manchester 2007. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. For more information on the terms and conditions, please see the file "LICENSE" that is included in this distribution.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Kevin Garwood (kgarwood@users.sourceforge.net)

Field Summary

protected HelpEnabledButton	edit
protected EditFieldModel	editFieldModel
protected OntologyContext	ontologyContext
protected HelpEnabledButton	plugins
protected java.util.ArrayList	pluginsList
protected SchemaConceptPropertyManager	schemaConceptPropertyManager

Fields inherited from class project35.desktopDeployment.DataFieldView

activityArea, collator, dataFieldModel, font, label, name, project35FormContext, project35UIFactory

Constructor Summary

EditFieldView()

Method Summary

void	actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
void	changeFont(java.awt.Font font)
protected void	choosePlugin()
void	deregisterToolTipComponents() helps ensure that the field view removes its UI components from the the tool tip manager
protected void	editFieldWithEditingComponent()
protected EditFieldEditingComponent	getEditFieldEditingComponent()
EditFieldModel	getModel()
java.lang.String	getValue()
java.lang.Object	getValueSupplier()
void	initialise(EditFieldModel editFieldModel, Project35FormContext project35FormContext)
abstract boolean	isDirty()
abstract void	keepValue()
abstract void	restoreValue()
abstract void	setFieldValue(java.lang.String value)
void	setUnits(java.lang.String units)
void	setValueSupplier(java.lang.Object _valueSupplier)

Methods inherited from class project35.desktopDeployment.DataFieldView

enableContextHelp, getActivityArea, getFont, getHelpLink, getLabel, getName, hasFocus, indicateErrors, initialise, isContextHelpEnabled, isRequiredField, setActivityArea, setHelpLink, setName, setRequiredField

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

editFieldModel

protected EditFieldModel editFieldModel

ontologyContext

protected OntologyContext ontologyContext

edit

protected HelpEnabledButton edit

plugins

protected HelpEnabledButton plugins

schemaConceptPropertyManager

protected SchemaConceptPropertyManager schemaConceptPropertyManager

pluginsList

protected java.util.ArrayList pluginsList

Constructor Detail

EditFieldView

public EditFieldView()

Method Detail

initialise

public void initialise(EditFieldModel editFieldModel,
                       Project35FormContext project35FormContext)

deregisterToolTipComponents

public void deregisterToolTipComponents()

helps ensure that the field view removes its UI components from the the tool tip manager

Overrides:

deregisterToolTipComponents in class DataFieldView

isDirty

public abstract boolean isDirty()

Returns:

whether there is a difference between the displayed value and the value saved value contained in the underlying model component.

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

getValueSupplier

public java.lang.Object getValueSupplier()

getModel

public EditFieldModel getModel()

editFieldWithEditingComponent

protected void editFieldWithEditingComponent()

getEditFieldEditingComponent

protected EditFieldEditingComponent getEditFieldEditingComponent()

choosePlugin

protected void choosePlugin()

setFieldValue

public abstract void setFieldValue(java.lang.String value)

keepValue

public abstract void keepValue()

restoreValue

public abstract void restoreValue()

setUnits

public void setUnits(java.lang.String units)

setValueSupplier

public void setValueSupplier(java.lang.Object _valueSupplier)

actionPerformed

public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)

Specified by:

actionPerformed in interface java.awt.event.ActionListener

changeFont

public void changeFont(java.awt.Font font)

Overrides:

changeFont in class DataFieldView