[oXygen-sdk] Process current context using custom swing component

[Alex Jitianu]

Hello,

Using a custom form control appears to be a good solution. From your 
other email I see that you've already started to investigate this 
approach. A CSS selector is all you would need to control when the form 
control is presented:

elem {
// Normal styles
}

elem[attr] {
     content: oxy_editor(...)
}

We have some form controls samples in 
{OxygenInstallDir}/samples/form-controls. Although their use is not 
conditioned by an attribute value like you need you can easily change 
the CSS selectors to implement this behavior (like described above).

The steps required to create and use a custom form controls are:
- download the authorSDK [2]
- implement the custom form control by extending 
ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.editor.InplaceEditorRendererAdapter. You can 
also take a look at 
ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.editor.AbstractInplaceEditor (it offers some 
default implementations and some listeners management)
- pack the previous implementation in a JAR
- go to Oxygen and add the JAR inside the Classpath tab of the framework [1]
- bind the form control in the CSS as described in [3].

[1] 
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/index.html#topics/document-type-classpath-tab.html
[2] http://oxygenxml.com/download_sdk.html?file=oxygenAuthorSDK.zip
[3] 
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/index.html#topics/implementing-custom-form-controls.html

Best regards,
Alex
-- 
Alex Jitianu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 27-Feb-14 4:07 PM, Nathan wrote:
> Hi,
>   I would like to create a Swing component which receives the current 
> element, processes it through user interactions and returns a value 
> which needs to be inserted back. I would like to trigger this using 
> the Author API when a particular attribute value for the element is 
> entered.
>   How would I go about doing this? If there is a sample available of 
> something similar, I would love to take a look.
>
> Thanks!
> Nathan
>
>
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