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Re: Thinlet and own JPane

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On Jul 10, 2:58 pm, cool.ke...@googlemail.com wrote:
> hopefully you all know thinlet,

It's not so important that one really needs to know.

> (http://thinlet.sourceforge.net). I was trying to parse a simple xml
> file and take one of its components

A Thinlet does not contain separate Components unless you separately
added AWT-based JavaBeans, which you didn't.

> and then put it on my own swing
> panel.

Bad idea in many aspects. Bad on abstract level (mixing of paradigms)
and bad on technical level.

> Sadly I am not able to do this.

Of course not. The Thinlet is a single component, actually a
Container, an AWT Component subclass. The "components" in a Thinlet
are typically String descriptions plus data, not Component objects. A
Thinlet is one big text interpreter when run.

>                 Object c = thin.find("mainpanel");

"c" contains all you can ever find out about "mainpanel".

>                 thin.getComponent(c, "name"); // THIS SHOULD GET THE COMPONENT
> mainpanel

No, why should it? And all your shouting will not change it.
getComponent() only looks for JavaBeans, which have the internal
Thinlet-'type' "bean". But you are asking for a "panel" type. While a
"panel" has a "name" attribute, a "bean" doesn't.

> I wanted to get the AWT component named "mainpanel",

There is no such AWT Component in the Thinlet. There is a data
structure labeled "mainpanel" in the Thinlet, which is not an AWT
Component.

> defined in the
> xml file,

You have not define a "mainpanel" AWT Component. Just one single
Thinlet (which is an AWT Container) and which contains text
descriptions of components.

> and then put it on the panel with panel.add().
> Any idea how
> this is done?

It can't be done. What you want is not there. And if it would be there
you would asking for trouble by putting an AWT component on a Swing
JPanel.

Drop that giant hack called Thinlet and learn Swing programming.

> Is it possible to parse the xml file and then use parsed elements on
> your own panels, frames etc.?!

No. Learn Swing programming.

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