Package net.sf.cuf.ui.builder

This package contains the non-graphical interface builder SwingXMLBuilder and its various helper classes.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
SwingXMLBuilder.Backlink	Helper interface that classes can implement to signal that the SwingXMLBuilder that created objects of that class will set a back link.
SwingXMLBuilder.BuilderDelegate	Helper interface that delegate builder classes must implement.
WidgetFactory	Interface is used by the VisualBuilderDelegate in the process of creation of Swing-Elements.

Class Summary

Class	Description
DefaultWidgetFactory	This Default-Implementation of a widget factory creates standard swing elements for each widget type.
ExternalUpdateAdapter	Small adapter that maps a change event to calling external update on a value model.
IconCache	The icon cache is a class that loads icons and stores them in a Map.
PopupManager	A PopupManager object is a MouseAdapter that manages a popup for different components.
SwingXMLBuilder	SwingXMLBuilder generates a visual representation from a simple XML description. It also can create non-visble components, and connect the actions of the visuable components to any methods of the non-visual objects. Besides generating arbitrary objects (as long as the class has a public default constructor), also state handling and data binding objects can generated. It is somehow like the legendary "NIB-Files" from the NeXT/Apple InterfaceBuilder.app, unfortunately without the interactive UI Builder :-( The state handling stuff centers around the State and StateAdapter interfaces, and can be used to describe logical states and bind them to the widgets. The data binding stuff centers around the ValueModel interface, and can be used to bind the content of POJO's to widgets, even if the POJO's contain complex lists or a type conversion is required. Both visual widgets as well as non-visual objects can be referred by name, see SwingMapping for a detailed description of how this works. The "id" Attribute of the various elements are mapped to the name of a widget, see JComponent.setName() for further information. This class is somehow an alternative to SwingMapping+SwingDecorator, because the XML description contains all the information a SwingDecorator would normally decorate, and a SwingXMLBuilder has the same key/value methods like SwingMapping. The non-visual objects only have a flat (non-hierarchical) namespace.
WidgetFactoryRegistry	Registry is to be used for the registration of Widget Factories with the SwingXMLBuilder, also a WidgetFactory.

Package net.sf.cuf.ui.builder Description

This package contains the non-graphical interface builder SwingXMLBuilder and its various helper classes.

The SwingXMLBuilder also provides an integration of other CUF libraries (State/StateAdapter, ValueModel, ...) and the smart callback handling of the SwingConnectionManager.