Re: creating and instantiating formatters
Re: creating and instantiating formatters
- Subject: Re: creating and instantiating formatters
- From: Theodore Petrosky <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:34:55 -0700 (PDT)
thanks.... on a lark I tried
escapeHTML = false
and it worked... must I quote the boolean. it is working without them.
Ted
--- On Wed, 3/25/09, Chuck Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
> From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: creating and instantiating formatters
> To: "Theodore Petrosky" <email@hidden>
> Cc: email@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 1:32 PM
> <wo:WOString formatter =
> "$hTMLFormtter" value = "$currentNote.noteText" />
>
> add escapeHTML = "$false"
>
> or is that $false? I don't use inline bindings...
>
>
> Chuck
>
> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:23 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
>
> >
> > Obviously, I don't understand how to create,
> instantiate, or implement a formatter. Here's what I tried.
> >
> > I created HTMLLineBreakReformatter.java as:
> >
> > package com.as.utils;
> >
> > import java.text.FieldPosition;
> > import java.text.Format;
> > import java.text.ParsePosition;
> >
> > @SuppressWarnings("serial")
> > public class HTMLLineBreakReformatter extends Format
> {
> >
> > @Override
> > public StringBuffer format(Object
> object, StringBuffer buffer, FieldPosition pos) {
> > return
> buffer.append(((String)object).replaceAll("\n", "<BR
> />"));
> >
> > }
> >
> > @Override
> > public Object parseObject(String
> source, ParsePosition pos) {
> >
> > return null;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > Then I imported it into my java for the page:
> >
> > public HTMLLineBreakReformatter hTMLFormtter;
> >
> > and in the constructor for the page's java:
> >
> > public UserMain(WOContext context) {
> > super(context);
> >
> > hTMLFormtter = new
> HTMLLineBreakReformatter();
> > }
> >
> >
> > then in the WOString in question:
> >
> > <wo:WOString formatter = "$hTMLFormtter"
> value = "$currentNote.noteText" />
> >
> > the \n's are indeed replaced by <br /> and I see
> in the page in question:
> >
> > I need to see the example here!!!<BR /><BR
> /><BR />and again<BR /><BR />and
> again<BR /><BR />and again!!!
> >
> > the HTML page is not interpreting the <br /> as
> a new line which means I don't understand something.
> >
> > I am running out of ideas to try. I should say I feel
> that I have run out of ideas.
> >
> > Thanks for any help...
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
> >
> >
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