er.ajax
Class AjaxTextHinter

java.lang.Object
  com.webobjects.appserver.WOElement
      com.webobjects.appserver.WODynamicElement
          com.webobjects.appserver._private.WODynamicGroup
              er.ajax.AjaxDynamicElement
                  er.ajax.AjaxTextHinter

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAjaxElement

public class AjaxTextHinter
extends AjaxDynamicElement

Hints input and textarea fields with ghosted text that serves as an explanation for the user what to enter. The style "ajax-hinted-text-with-default" defines the color for this. The default value for the field comes from setting default = "something"; on the input element. For instance, to set the default value on a text field, you would do .

 HTML:
 <webobject name="Form">
  <webobject name="SomeText" />
 </webobject>
 <webobject name="TextHinter"/ >
 
 WOD:
 TextHinter : AjaxTextHinter {
         form = "EditForm";
 }
 Form : ERXWOForm {
         id = "EditForm";
         ....
 }
 SomeText: WOTextField {
         default = "Name oder Titel";
         ....
 } 

Author:

ak

Bindings

form	ID of the form to apply the hints to

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class er.ajax.AjaxDynamicElement

log

Fields inherited from class com.webobjects.appserver.WODynamicElement

_ConstructorParameters

Constructor Summary

AjaxTextHinter(String name, NSDictionary associations, WOElement children)

Method Summary

protected void	addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse response, WOContext context) Override this method to append the needed scripts for this component.
void	appendToResponse(WOResponse response, WOContext context) Overridden to call #addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse).
WOActionResults	handleRequest(WORequest request, WOContext context) Override this method to return the response for an Ajax request.

Methods inherited from class er.ajax.AjaxDynamicElement

_containerID, addScriptResourceInHead, addScriptResourceInHead, addStylesheetResourceInHead, addStylesheetResourceInHead, appendTagAttributeToResponse, associations, bindingNamed, booleanValueForBinding, hasBinding, invokeAction, setValueForBinding, stringValueForBinding, takeValuesFromRequest, valueForBinding, valueForBinding

Methods inherited from class com.webobjects.appserver._private.WODynamicGroup

addChildElement, appendChildrenToResponse, childrenElements, EmptyGroup, hasChildrenElements, invokeChildrenAction, takeChildrenValuesFromRequest, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AjaxTextHinter

public AjaxTextHinter(String name,
                      NSDictionary associations,
                      WOElement children)

Method Detail

handleRequest

public WOActionResults handleRequest(WORequest request,
                                     WOContext context)

Description copied from class: AjaxDynamicElement

Override this method to return the response for an Ajax request.

Specified by:

handleRequest in interface IAjaxElement

Specified by:

handleRequest in class AjaxDynamicElement

addRequiredWebResources

protected void addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse response,
                                       WOContext context)

Description copied from class: AjaxDynamicElement

Override this method to append the needed scripts for this component.

Specified by:

addRequiredWebResources in class AjaxDynamicElement

appendToResponse

public void appendToResponse(WOResponse response,
                             WOContext context)

Description copied from class: AjaxDynamicElement

Overridden to call #addRequiredWebResources(WOResponse).

Overrides:

appendToResponse in class AjaxDynamicElement