#21 More use of the PropertyDescriptor meta data

[Anonymous]

It would be great if the following beans meta data would be taken into account rendering the form:

PropertyDescriptor.isHidden - only display these fields if a certain also-show-hidden-fields attribute is true. (default false)

PropertyDescriptor.isExpert - only display these fields is a certain also-show-expert-fields attribute is true. (default false)

PropertyDescriptorgetShortDescription - the text to show in the mouse over that pops up when the mouse is above the entry field.

PropertyDescriptor.getPreferred - indicates which of the fields should get the focus when the form is rendered.

PropertyDescriptor.getValue - we could think of some clever way of utilizing the option to store/retrieve more meta data from the Map-ish setValue(key,value) interface of a BeanInfo. For instance, we could have a third column in the rendered table showing text stored in a meta property...

Regards,
Willem

willem@ereprijs.demon.nl