Use of Custom Components in Pivot Applications

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi to all,
for a new application I'll have to develop, I'll need to develop some
custom component (for example one is a sort of a grid/table, with
inside many hundreds of little colored boxes, and probably other
things ...).

One time developed it (in a way compatible with Pivot), how can I use
it, reference from a wtkx file, etc ... ?


And a last question:
could be useful (for my applications using this component) to add the
visual part of this component to a custom extension of the TerraTheme
?


Oh, maybe a Tutorial on creating a simple custom component could be
useful for our users ... add a ticket to JIRA ?

Bye

Re: Use of Custom Components in Pivot Applications

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi Todd,

> I'd start by reading the WTKX primer a few times - there's a lot of dense
> content in there as to how WTKX works.
> http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/1.3/tutorials/wtkx_primer.html
Ok, I have to study a lot here :-) ...


>> And a last question:
>> could be useful (for my applications using this component) to add the
>> visual part of this component to a custom extension of the TerraTheme
> I don't understand the question - can you clarify?
I've seen that in the constructor of TerraTheme, there is a
registration for all Pivot Standard GUI components, like:
        componentSkinMap.put(Accordion.class, TerraAccordionSkin.class);
        componentSkinMap.put(ActivityIndicator.class,
TerraActivityIndicatorSkin.class);
        componentSkinMap.put(Alert.class, TerraAlertSkin.class);
...

So my question is to understand if I'd have to register in a similar
way also my custom components (if this could have some utility), for
example to have some benefits (some behavior or other) from TerraTheme
... what do you think ?


> What I'd do is create your component first, then write up the experience
> from the point of view of someone who'd never created a custom component
> before.  Then that write-up could both be published as an article and
> checked into the platform developer's guide :).  No JIRA ticket necessary
> for stuff like this - it falls into the existing bucket of "improve
> documentation".
Ok, and in the future this could go in our documentation, or maybe
(revised) in an article ... but until I'll have this many weeks are
required :-) (it's a low priority in my new application at the moment)
.


Thanks,
Sandro

Re: Use of Custom Components in Pivot Applications

[Todd Volkert <tv...@gmail.com>]

>
> One time developed it (in a way compatible with Pivot), how can I use
> it, reference from a wtkx file, etc ... ?
>

I'd start by reading the WTKX primer a few times - there's a lot of dense
content in there as to how WTKX works.
http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/1.3/tutorials/wtkx_primer.html


> And a last question:
> could be useful (for my applications using this component) to add the
> visual part of this component to a custom extension of the TerraTheme
> ?
>

I don't understand the question - can you clarify?


>
> Oh, maybe a Tutorial on creating a simple custom component could be
> useful for our users ... add a ticket to JIRA ?
>

What I'd do is create your component first, then write up the experience
from the point of view of someone who'd never created a custom component
before.  Then that write-up could both be published as an article and
checked into the platform developer's guide :).  No JIRA ticket necessary
for stuff like this - it falls into the existing bucket of "improve
documentation".

-T