eva/3 Application Builder • Developing Additional eva/3 Components • Extensionpoints 

Drag & Drop Files into Designed Forms and Reports

The Extensionpoint

com.odc.eva3.dev.form.resourceBeanDrop

defines what occours, when a file will be dragged from the navigator into an open form.

Example: The following example defines, that a .macro file will be instanciated to a SButton, wich has the file as ActionPerformedMacro, when the file is dragged into an open form.

<extension
  id="com.odc.eva3.dev.form.beandrop.macroSource"
  name="macroSourceDrop"
  point="com.odc.eva3.dev.form.resourceBeanDrop">
  <dropBean
    bean="com.odc.eva3.rt.se.beans.SButton"
    target="form"
    fileextension="macro"
    setter="com.odc.eva3.dev.form.dnd.setter.ActionPerformedPropertySetter">
  </dropBean>
</extension>

An extensiom of the point

com.odc.eva3.dev.form.resourceBeanDrop

describes elements of the type dropBean with the following attributes:

fileextension The file extension to be controlled by this element
bean The class name to be instanciated as dropped Bean; this class name must be recognized from the current toolbar
setter The class name of the property setter, that has to initialize the property value on the dropped bean. The setter class must implement the interface com.odc.eva3.dev.form.dnd.setter.PropertySetter
target Describes, whether this extension should controll the form or report designer

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