RE: Why would disabled="..." not take a runtime expression? The d ocs say that it should...

[Davide Bruzzone <Da...@ngt.com>]

>Does this fail whether "deny" is true or not?  I would think 
>that, since the default scope for "bean:define" is "page", 
>if "deny" is not true, then "readOnly" will not be defined.
>If this is the problem, then I would put your "bean:define"
>outside of the "if"-like tag, and have the body of that tag
>set the previously defined bean.

Yes, that's what I'm doing...

>If I were designing a tag like that, I would have an optional
>"var" attribute that specifies the name of a scoped attribute 
>to set, to "true" or "false" for the result.

Thank you for the suggestion...

Cheers...

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davide Bruzzone [mailto:Davide.Bruzzone@ngt.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:36 PM
> 
> I'm trying to control whether or not some form fields are 
> editable using a
> custom security tag. So, at the top of the page, I have 
> something like this:
> 
> <%-- Page security --%>
> <bean:define id="readOnly" type="java.lang.String" value="false"/>
> 			
> <ngt-security:hasNoPermission deny="deny">
> 	<bean:define id="readOnly" type="java.lang.String" 
> value="true"/>
> </ngt-security:hasNoPermission>
> 
> If the deny attribute is anything but null or an empty 
> string, readOnly is
> set to "true". Then I try to do this:
> 
> <html:select property="priority" styleClass="fullwidth" disabled="<%=
> readOnly %>">
> 	...
> </html:select>
> 
> What I get back is that the readOnly symbol cannot be 
> resolved... However,
> the following tests work:

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