How do I add a method call to populate widget text

[PaulMcKee]

Hi:
I'm a newbie to SWing designer, so this may be obvious to all of you, but I cannot see how to set the code required to set the text for the widget.. Everything that I enter in the text box ends up as a quoted string and I want to know how to enter an expression. I can enter the code myself in Source view - for example,the designer gave me this:
targetDB = new JTextField();
targetDB.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
targetDB.setText("ParserMainWin.settingsInstance.getTSrv()");
m_contentPanel.add(targetDB, "6, 8, fill, default");
targetDB.setColumns(10);

Whic I then edited to what I want, namely:
targetDB = new JTextField();
targetDB.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.LEFT);
targetDB.setText(ParserMainWin.settingsInstance.getTSrv());
..
How can I get this without going into source view?

Thanks

Paul McKee

[Eric Clayberg]

You would use the Source view for that.

[PaulMcKee]

Yes, thats how I did it - use the source view, but its not what - want because of the delay in toggling back and forth between source and design views, as when it goes back to design, it realises something has changed and rebuilds.. What I want when I edit a property is a straightforward editor - if I want plain text, then I can put it in quotes. How do I get this?

This question is really about MVC interpretation - I need my view (part of which is a textfield) to be able to read information from my model, through it's get... methods. How can I tell the tool to do this? My model is completely separate from its Human interface - it can be called by other programs, command line and now GUI, so the model can't change as such. Can I achieve this through bindings? I've tried, but I don't have any beans - I just have getter and setter methods.

Help!

[Eric Clayberg]

I would use the new JSR 295 data binding support for this.



You shoudl start by looking at the detailed Swing Data Binding example that we provide.