Question on behaviour of the Design tab and Composites

[jnorris]

I just have a question about some behaviour I noticed when editing a Composite in the Design tab.

I created a new Composite and added a call to a method at the end of the constructor called updateInfo() which will retrieve data to populate the view. I switched to the Design tab and started to add components to the view. When I switched back to the Source tab I found that all of the components were added to the updateInfo() method. So I moved the code back to the constructor, switched back to the Design tab and added more components. The new components were again added to the updateInfo() method. For grins, I then moved the call to updateInfo() to before a component (just a Label) in the constructor and repeated the process. In this case the new components were added at the end of the constructor.

Is there a setting somewhere that controls this behaviour? For now I have just commented out the call to updateInfo() in the constructor until I'm ready to test the view.

Thanks,
Jim

[Eric Clayberg]

Is there a setting somewhere that controls this behaviour?

In the next release, you will be able to control this.

For now I have just commented out the call to updateInfo() in the constructor until I'm ready to test the view.

You can use a code hiding tag instead.

[jnorris]

Thanks for the reply Eric.

I'll give the code hiding tag a try the next time I have similar code. Although I've seen it in the preferences I wasn't aware of what the purpose for the tag was and obviously didn't read the docs for it.

-Jim

[Eric Clayberg]

As of the v4.2.1 build, you can specify the name of the method in which to generate yoru widget definitions (rather than the constructor)...