org.salespointframework.core
Class FormSheetContentCreator

java.lang.Object
  org.salespointframework.core.FormSheetContentCreator

Direct Known Subclasses:

ListViewFormSheet.SLVFSContentCreator, MessageForm.MessageFormSheetContentCreator, SingleTableFormSheet.STFSContentCreator

public abstract class FormSheetContentCreator
extends java.lang.Object

Helper class that creates the contents of a FormSheet.

A FormSheetContentsCreator is used by FormSheets to create their contents, i.e. to set their component and the buttons in the FormSheet's button bar. Objectifying this process is needed to make FormSheets persistent as the Swing components' serializability is not reliable. Therefore, whenever you create a serializable FormSheet, use FormSheetContentsCreators.

Since:

v2.0

Version:

2.0 17/08/1999

Author:

Steffen Zschaler

See Also:

FormSheet.addContentCreator(org.salespointframework.core.FormSheetContentCreator)

Field Summary

private FormSheetContentCreator

m_fsccParent The parent of this FormSheetContentCreator.

Constructor Summary

FormSheetContentCreator()

Method Summary

protected abstract void	createFormSheetContent(FormSheet fs) Create the FormSheet's contents.
(package private) void	createFormSheetContent(FormSheet fs, boolean fCallParent) Internal communication method called by FormSheet.
(package private) void	setParent(FormSheetContentCreator fsccParent) Internal communication method called by FormSheet.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

m_fsccParent

private FormSheetContentCreator m_fsccParent

The parent of this FormSheetContentCreator. The parent of a FormSheetContentCreator is the FormSheetContentCreator that was added to the FormSheet immediately before this FormSheetContentCreator.

Constructor Detail

FormSheetContentCreator

public FormSheetContentCreator()

Method Detail

createFormSheetContent

protected abstract void createFormSheetContent(FormSheet fs)

Create the FormSheet's contents.

This method is called in the following circumstances:

1. On creation of the FormSheet object.
2. Whenever the FormSheet gets deserialized from a stream.

Although the FormSheet whose contents is to be set is passed as a parameter, a new instance of the FormSheetContentCreator is needed with every new instance of the FormSheet!

Parameters:

fs - the FormSheet whose contents is to be created.

createFormSheetContent

void createFormSheetContent(FormSheet fs,
                            boolean fCallParent)

Internal communication method called by FormSheet.

Parameters:

fs - the FormSheet that needs to be set up.

fCallParent - if true, the entire chain of FormSheetContentCreators will be called.

setParent

void setParent(FormSheetContentCreator fsccParent)

Internal communication method called by FormSheet.

Parameters:

fsccParent - the new parent of this FormSheetContentCreator