Data Property dialog in designer

[Kelly]

In the designer you can select the 'data' property and enter data for a widget. This converts into code like 'widget.setData("key", "value");'

The setData method can handle an object type as the second argument but through the designer you can only enter 'String' type objects, can this be changed/enhanced.

Maybe add to the right of the text field in the 'data' dialog a Combo that would translate what is in the text field into the object type selected in the Combo.

If you wanted the value to be a boolean then user could enter a valid value in the text field and then select the boolean item in the Combo. The value would be converted by the Boolean.parseBoolean method.

Just an idea thanks for listening.

[Eric Clayberg]

The setData method can handle an object type as the second argument but through the designer you can only enter 'String' type objects, can this be changed/enhanced.

At some point, yes. I don't know when though.