Hi puce ,how to make an editor having swing components

Question

hi puce please tell me how to make an editor having drag and drop facility and when after dragging and dropping components on a page save the page. The page saved should be stored in xml format and i want this application to be stand alone .. please help... ihave seen ur customizerbarsample.java ..It helped but not fully ....how after resizing and move i can get current coordinates

Answer 1

Hi,
Sir , what i would like to know is like in
Customizerbarsample.java you have taken
JLabelCustomizer and u drag and drop the label
similarly i would like to drag n drop other
components aswell and i would like to know what their
dimensions are like the x . y coordinates both
relative and absolute . also if after resizing i
would like to know absolute height and width ... how
should i go about it ... An example code would be a
great help.... Sorry, I currently don't have the time to provide you such an example. But where exactly do you have problems? I expect you're using the example from:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=737908
as a base.
That example shows that you can just create any TableModel you need and then create any Customizer you need from that in the consumeSelection-method.
How to get the information of the customizers (x, y,...) I just explained in the last response. Where do you have problems there?
i have read that if u need X, y
coordinates along with height and width i need to
register propertychangelistener along with
CustomizerListener...but how do u register both
these listeners and where.. E.g. at the place where you create the customizers:
myCustomizer.addPropertyChangeListener(...);
myCustomizer.addCustomizerListener(...);But what do you want to do with that? Maybe there's a better solution...
like u instantiated
JLabelCustomizer i tried to do the same with
JButtonCustomizer but there was an error saying
JbuttonCustomizer is abstract it cannot be
instantiated..... please helpYeah, I just had a look at JButtonCustomizer and it seems as it isn't ready to use yet (probably I added some abstract methods to a base class and then just declared it abstract to be able to compile it ;) ). You can still add buttons using JCustomizer - you just won't have the in-place editing feature. Or you might want to create your own customizer derived from AbstractTextCustomizer (check the JLabelCustomizer if you need an example).
-Puce