[izpack-users] UserInputPanel questions + NPE on CVS

[Darren Govoni]

Good point! Well, our system is not really an end user system, but 
unfortunately our current install is a manual mess with things going
to numerous locations, so for our purposes being able to control that is 
best as possible is our only hope.

I thought about using multiple UserInputPanels, but need to read up how 
to do that. Am I allowed to specify more than
one input spec such that each userinputpanel has its own input spec?

The search field seemed to work for me once I changed the example field to:

<field type="search" variable="SCRIPTS_HOME">
  <description align="left" txt="desc." id="scripts.home"/>
  <spec txt="Scripts home:" type="directory" result="directory">
  </spec>
</field>

since I only want to select directories. However, it 'id' and 'txt' 
fields are mixed up and the current izpack-src trunk is severely
damaged it would seem.

Darren


Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 10:00, Darren Govoni wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>   I've found out that I can use multiple search fields in UserInputPanel
>> to direct different packs to different locations
>> using the variables. Couple observations.
>>
>> 1) It seems UserInputPanel is using the field 'id' for the display
>> description. This would be a bug.
>> 2) If I add a lot (like 6) of search fields, they get cut off at the
>> bottom. Has someone considered:
>>          a) Making the base panel a scrollpane so if many fields are
>> added they would scroll?
>>          or
>>          b) Moving the browse button to the end of the text field where
>> it is typically found rather
>>          than underneath it, which takes up twice as much vertical space.
>>     
>
> Six fields is a lot to fill in at once.  Couldn't it overwhelm the end user?  
> UserInput is one of the few panels that can occur multiple times.  Why not 
> use 2 or 3 different instances of it instead of putting them all in one 
> place.
>
> Also, I've never gotten the search field to work properly.  Are you just 
> typing in names, or are you using the auto-search button?
>
> Hal
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