Get the existing tab by name at runtime

Question

Hi all,
I need to get weather a tab exist by this name or not .. my scenario is
I will have a properties file with a list of field properties along with information to which tab this field belong ...?
At runtime I need to create a tabstrip...
Then i need to get 1st field's  tabname, check weather a tab exist with this name or not..
if it exist create & add this field to that tab and context, else create new tab and then add.
add the tab to the tab strip. so on to all fields
finally tab strip to the rootcontainer
He ineed how to get a tab by name,
how to create a value attribute under a value node for the view context..
Thanks in advance .
Sai.k.k

Answer 1

Hi Armin,
Have a look at this code
<pre>
for(int i=1;i<=fieldscount;i++)
  IWDAttributeInfo child = parent.addAttribute(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_FIELDNAME"),"com.sap.dictionary."resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i+"_DATATYPE"));
  IWDInputField field = (IWDInputField) view.createElement(IWDInputField.class,"Field_"+i);
  field.bindValue(child);
  IWDLabel label     =     (IWDLabel)view.createElement(IWDLabel.class,"Label_"+i);
  label.setText(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_LABEL"));
  label.setLabelFor("Field_"+i);
  IWDViewElement Ele = view.getElement(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_TAB"));
  if(Ele instanceof IWDTab)
    IWDTab existtab = (IWDTab)view.getElement(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_TAB"));
    existtab.setContent(label);
    existtab.setContent(field);
  else
    <b>IWDTab tab1 = (IWDTab)view.createElement(IWDTab.class,resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_TAB"));</b>
    IWDCaption header1 = (IWDCaption) view.createElement(IWDCaption.class,resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_FIELDNAME"));
    header1.setText(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_TAB"));
    tab1.setHeader(header1);
    IWDTransparentContainer tcont = (IWDTransparentContainer)view.getElement(resourceHandler.getString("FIELD"i"_TAB"));
    IWDGridLayout layout =(IWDGridLayout)tcont.createLayout(IWDGridLayout.class);
    layout.setColCount(3);
    tab1.setContent(label);
    tab1.setContent(field);
    ts.addTab(tab1);
//    count++;     
theActionContainer.addChild(ts);
</pre>