Creating a java gui to create xml code

[Jman]

Hi All,

I need some help. I want to create a GUI java application with choice boxes and text fields that you can use to create xml code with. I just need some help.

1. I think I might be going about my code in the complete wrong direction. So if any one knows of a better way please help me.

2. when I run my code it works so there is no compile error but what I do not understand is when I choose something from my choice box it gets printed out in the following way:

<java.awt.Choice[choice0,128,0,128x21,current=nA] name = title=

but I want it to print out like this

<nA name = title =

First code is the GUI code:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class ToGUI extends JFrame {

private JLabel chooseAs;
private JLabel chooseOp;
private JLabel chooseAt;
private JLabel nameFilter;
private JLabel disc;
private JLabel nodeTitle;
private JLabel searchString;
private TextField tf1;
private TextField tf2;
private TextField tf3;
private TextField tf4;
private JFrame frame;
private Choice as;
private Choice op;
private Choice at;
private Panel north;
private Panel center;
private Panel west;
private TextArea jta;
private JButton generate;
private JButton clear;

public ToGUI() {
frame = new JFrame("ToGUI");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOS E);
Panel center = new Panel();
Panel north = new Panel();
Panel west = new Panel();
Container c = getContentPane();
c.setLayout(new BorderLayout());


nameFilter = new JLabel("Filter name:");
disc = new JLabel("Discription:");
nodeTitle = new JLabel("Title:");
tf1 = new TextField();
tf2 = new TextField();
tf3 = new TextField();
tf4 = new TextField();
JButton generate = new JButton("Generate");
JButton clear = new JButton("Clear");
searchString = new JLabel("Search String:");
chooseAs = new JLabel("Choose Assertion:");
chooseOp = new JLabel("Choose Operator:");
chooseAt = new JLabel("Choose Attribute:");

Choice as = new Choice();
as.add("nA");
as.add("iAn");
as.add("f");

Choice op = new Choice();
op.add("OR");
op.add("AND");
op.add("NOOP");

Choice at = new Choice();
at.add("SN");
at.add("SLn");
at.add("SO");



north.setLayout(new GridLayout (4,1));
north.add(chooseAs);
north.add(as);
north.add(chooseOp);
north.add(op);
north.add(chooseAt);
north.add(at);
north.add(nameFilter);
north.add(tf1);
north.add(disc);
north.add(tf2);
north.add(nodeTitle);
north.add(tf3);
north.add(searchString);
north.add(tf4);
c.add(west, BorderLayout.WEST);
west.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,1));
west.add(generate);
west.add(clear);

c.add(north, BorderLayout.NORTH);

jta = new TextArea(17,70);
center.add(jta);
c.add(center, BorderLayout.SOUTH);



ToChoice tc = new ToChoice(as, jta, tf1, tf3);
as.addItemListener(tc);
generate.addActionListener(tc);
tf1.addActionListener(tc);
tf3.addActionListener(tc);

}
public static void main(String [] args){

ToGUI c = new TopoGUI();
c.setSize(520, 450);
c.setVisible(true);



}
}

next code is my choice code:

import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class ToChoice implements ItemListener, ActionListener {
private Choice c;
private TextArea ta;
private TextField tf;
private TextField tff;

public ToChoice(Choice c, TextArea ta, TextField tf, TextField tff) {
this.c = c;
this.ta = ta;
this.tf = tf;
this.tff = tff;
}

public void itemStateChanged(ItemEvent f)
{

String c = f.getItem().toString();
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if(e.getActionCommand() == "Generate" || e.getSource() == tf)
{

ta.setText("<" + c + " " + "name =" + " " + tf.getText() + " " + "title=" + tff.getText() + '\n' + ta.getText());
tf.setText("");

}
else if(e.getActionCommand() =="Clear")
{
ta.setText("");
}
}
}

[sukatoa]

java.awt.Choice[choice0,128,0,128x21,current=nA] name = title=

I think that was a string representation of the Choice object.
Correct me if im wrong....

Is there any output that's not similar to the pattern above?
if none, you can just cut the

java.awt.Choice[choice0,128,0,128x21,current=nA]

and have some String manipulation over it.....
eg. Specific string extractor method, that will extract the remaining string and returns the specific string you want.

[Jman]

Hi sukatoa,

thanks for your reply. Could you help me understand what you mean about string extractor method.

[sukatoa]

Thats my term only.... a kind of implementation where you will design your own specific class/method that receives the

Given:

and returns a desired string....

Given:

java.awt.Choice[choice0,128,0,128x21,current=nA] name="Jman" title="ManJ"