[AgileWiki] assignment request from Niall--Swing field length

[Bill la F. <bil...@su...>]

Niall,

Such a nice email for first thing in the morning! (It is 5:30AM in India 
as I read this.) I feel like it is Christmas and I just saw a whole pile 
of presents under the tree. :-)

Lets have two threads on this, one for each assignment. And of course 
I'm responding to the simpler one first, swing field length. I'll start 
by confirming your understanding.

Lets start by looking at the second half of 
org.agilewiki.framework.Form. This is where we request field input. Look 
at three methods, password, passwordChallenge and editText. These are 
the 3 methods which request field input. And they pass a size attribute 
giving a suggested field width. Note that this is not a max field 
length, only a suggestion to the display. Note also that this is a 
character count, not a size in pixels. So you will need to use a fudge 
factor (times 10 or something like that) to get a reasonable field length.

Now if we look at the swing client, there are two modules that need 
updating: org.agilewiki.swingclient.common.EditText and 
org.agilewiki.swingclient.common.Password. Note that these two modules 
process the event objects produced by the three methods mentioned above.

Now the servlet code already uses variable length field entry. The idea 
behind this project is partly to keep the servlet and swing programs 
similer in feel for the user and partly to improve the look of the swing 
client.

Bill
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Hi Bill,
 
I would like to work on these open issues:
GUI: SwingFieldLength
  - i presume that you are talking about database field lengths here?
  - ie when the gui needs a field length it should ignore the lengths of 
recieved field lengths?
 
Doc
-   Table LSecs should be displayed using AwServer-generated HTML,
allowing for clickable links within cells.
Niall