showing a list of values in the designer

[mwaschkowski]

Hi,

In the properties tab in Gwt Designer if a field is an enum type, a list of values for the enum are shown in a dropdown (via reflection), which is fabulous. Is there any other way to populate the drop down that GWT Designer generates other than having a field of an enum type?

ie. I would like to create a dynamic list of values via a List<String> or some such...

Thanks very much!

Mark

[Eric Clayberg]

In the properties tab in Gwt Designer if a field is an enum type, a list of values for the enum are shown in a dropdown (via reflection), which is fabulous. Is there any other way to populate the drop down that GWT Designer generates other than having a field of an enum type?

Under GWT, Enums are the only way to do this currently.

Under SWT & Swing, this is easy as both support JavaBean-based customizers, so it is easy to add custom properties and custom editors. GWT does not support this (not yet anyway).

[mwaschkowski]

OK, great to know, thanks very much!

Would love to see that support in GWT in the future.

As well, I want to let you know that GWT Designer is working out really well for me, I wouldn't be able to complete my project without it.

Best,

Mark

[Eric Clayberg]

Would love to see that support in GWT in the future.

Petition Google. We could make something up, but it would be much better for Google to standardize this entire area.

[mwaschkowski]

Hi Eric,

OK, I keep running into this issue, what would I say to google to petition them for this type of functionality? Support for JavaBean-based customizers?

Thanks,

Mark

[Eric Clayberg]

Support for JavaBean-based customizers?

General JavaBean support would be good which would include standardize support for property accessors, default constructors, custom editors, customizers, Beans.isDesignTime(), etc.

[mwaschkowski]

I'm afraid that I may not have made my point clear, or that I'm not able to reach the correct people. I'm going to try in the contrib forum later on in the week.

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-W ... 66ecb98dc9

Regards,

Mark

[Eric Clayberg]

Support for Beans.isDesignTime() in the GWT emulation layer would be a good start.

If Google does not standardize support for custom widgets/beans, we will probably just publish a spec for integrating directly with GWT Designer.