org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors

Interface EnhancedPropertyEditor

All Superinterfaces:

PropertyEditor

Deprecated.

Instead of this class, implement ExPropertyEditor and InplaceEditor.Factory. Also create an implementation of InplaceEditor for the custom inline editor. In the attachEnv() method of your ExPropertyEditor, call PropertyEnv.registerInplaceEditorFactory(this).

Before you do any of this read the prose documentation on the Explorer API and be sure you cannot do what you need with an existing property editor - it is very rare to actually need to provide a custom editor component.

@Deprecated
public interface EnhancedPropertyEditor
extends PropertyEditor

Enhances standard property editor to support in-place custom editors and tagged values. Use of this class is strongly discouraged - the original NetBeans property sheet did not specify a strong contract for when the property should be updated from an editor such as the custom inplace editor this interface allows you to provide. The new (NetBeans 4.0 and later) property sheet does specify such a contract, and the InplaceEditor interface exists to allow it to be fulfilled.

See Also:

InplaceEditor, InplaceEditor.Factory, PropertyEnv

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Component	getInPlaceCustomEditor() Deprecated. Get an in-place editor.
boolean	hasInPlaceCustomEditor() Deprecated. Test for support of in-place custom editors.
boolean	supportsEditingTaggedValues() Deprecated. Test for support of editing of tagged values.

Methods inherited from interface java.beans.PropertyEditor

addPropertyChangeListener, getAsText, getCustomEditor, getJavaInitializationString, getTags, getValue, isPaintable, paintValue, removePropertyChangeListener, setAsText, setValue, supportsCustomEditor

Method Detail

getInPlaceCustomEditor

Component getInPlaceCustomEditor()

Deprecated.

Get an in-place editor.

Returns:

a custom property editor to be shown inside the property sheet

hasInPlaceCustomEditor

boolean hasInPlaceCustomEditor()

Deprecated.

Test for support of in-place custom editors.

Returns:

true if supported

supportsEditingTaggedValues

boolean supportsEditingTaggedValues()

Deprecated.

Test for support of editing of tagged values. Must also accept custom strings, otherwise you may may specify a standard property editor accepting only tagged values.

Returns:

true if supported