javax.swing.text.html
Class FormView

java.lang.Object
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  +--javax.swing.text.View
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        +--javax.swing.text.ComponentView
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              +--javax.swing.text.html.FormView

public class FormView

extends ComponentView

implements ActionListener

Component decorator that implements the view interface for form elements, <input>, <textarea>, and <select>. The model for the component is stored as an attribute of the the element (using StyleConstants.ModelAttribute), and is used to build the component of the view. The type of the model is assumed to of the type that would be set by HTMLDocument.HTMLReader.FormAction. If there are multiple views mapped over the document, they will share the embedded component models.

The components produced get their opaque property set to false. The following table shows what components get built by this view.

Element Type	Component built
input, type button	JButton
input, type checkbox	JCheckBox
input, type image	JButton
input, type password	JPasswordField
input, type radio	JRadioButton
input, type reset	JButton
input, type submit	JButton
input, type text	JTextField
select, size > 1 or multiple attribute defined	JList in a JScrollPane
select, size unspecified or 1	JComboBox
textarea	JTextArea in a JScrollPane

Inner Class Summary

protected class

FormView.MouseEventListener MouseEventListener class to handle form submissions when an input with type equal to image is clicked on.

Field Summary

static String	RESET
static String	SUBMIT If a value attribute is not specified for a FORM input element of type "submit" or "reset", then these default strings are used.

Fields inherited from class javax.swing.text.View

BadBreakWeight, ExcellentBreakWeight, ForcedBreakWeight, GoodBreakWeight, X_AXIS, Y_AXIS

Constructor Summary

FormView(Element elem)
Creates a new FormView object.

Method Summary

void	actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) Responsible for processeing the ActionEvent.
protected Component	createComponent() Create the component.
protected void	imageSubmit(String imageData) This method is called to submit a form in response to a click on an image.
protected void	submitData(String data) This method is responsible for submitting the form data.

Methods inherited from class javax.swing.text.ComponentView

getAlignment, getComponent, getMaximumSpan, getMinimumSpan, getPreferredSpan, modelToView, paint, setParent, setSize, viewToModel

Methods inherited from class javax.swing.text.View

breakView, changedUpdate, createFragment, getAttributes, getBreakWeight, getChildAllocation, getContainer, getDocument, getElement, getEndOffset, getNextVisualPositionFrom, getParent, getResizeWeight, getStartOffset, getView, getViewCount, getViewFactory, insertUpdate, isVisible, modelToView, modelToView, preferenceChanged, removeUpdate, viewToModel

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

SUBMIT

public static final String SUBMIT

If a value attribute is not specified for a FORM input element of type "submit" or "reset", then these default strings are used.

RESET

public static final String RESET

Constructor Detail

FormView

public FormView(Element elem)

Creates a new FormView object.

Parameters:

elem - the element to decorate

Method Detail

createComponent

protected Component createComponent()

Create the component. This is basically a big switch statement based upon the tag type and html attributes of the associated element.

Overrides:

createComponent in class ComponentView

actionPerformed

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)

Responsible for processeing the ActionEvent. If the element associated with the FormView, has a type of "submit", "reset", "text" or "password" then the action is processed. In the case of a "submit" the form is submitted. In the case of a "reset" the form is reset to its original state. In the case of "text" or "password", if the element is the last one of type "text" or "password", the form is submitted. Otherwise, focus is transferred to the next component in the form.

Specified by:

actionPerformed in interface ActionListener

Parameters:

evt - the ActionEvent.

submitData

protected void submitData(String data)

This method is responsible for submitting the form data. A thread is forked to undertake the submission.

imageSubmit

protected void imageSubmit(String imageData)

This method is called to submit a form in response to a click on an image. i.e an form element of type "image".

Parameters:

the - mouse click coordinates.