Constructor overload?

[alex.d]

I tried to overload constructor in my composite class, but GWT-Designer can not build the designer view showing an error: "...unable to find any GUI elements in your source." The code looks like following:

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public class MyClass extends Composite
{
   public MyClass()
   {
      // initialising with the default parameter
      initMyClass(defaultParam); 
   }
   
   public MyClass(int param)
   {
      initMyClass(param);
   }
   
   public void initMyClass(int param)
   {
      \\here all the GUI initializing code
   }
}


As far as i can see, GUI elements should be defined in the constructor, or GWT-Designer doesn't recognize them. Is there any workaround?

[Eric Clayberg]

I got a similar error with your example, but that was due to the fact that the code you sent would not compile.

After fixing the compilation problems, it opened fine.

If you do plan on having multiple constructors, mark the one that should be used as the parsing root with a @wbp.parser.constructor Javadoc tag.

[alex.d]

Actually compiling the code was successful - i've had problems only with the designer view. But @wbp.parser.constructor worked - thank you Eric.

[Eric Clayberg]

But @wbp.parser.constructor worked

Good. At some point, we will probably add a quick fix to add that tag for you.