[brailleblaster] Re: Implementing StyledTextContent

  • From: Chris von See <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:12:01 -0700

Can you just extend the default StyledTextContent implementation and override 
the methods that you need to in order to implement the functionality you want?  
What do you want to do that the default implementation doesn't do?

Cheers
Chris


On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:36 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:

> The Braille and Daisy views have quite different requirements, so it is 
> best to implement a StyledTextContent model for each one. I thought to 
> use the DefaultContent class as a starting point. The Eclipse license 
> permits this. Si I copied it to org.brailleblaster.wordprocessor and 
> started modifying it. Various import statements had to be added. When I 
> tried to import StyledTextEvent I was told that it was not public in the 
> custom SWT package. So I copied that also. Then the compiler gave the 
> message that it was a duplicate class, presumably because it had the 
> same name as a class in the classpath. So I changed the name slightly. 
> The compiler still gives the same message, claiming that a class with 
> the changed name exists in swt.custom, which it does not. It appears to 
> be important for the content model to use the StyledTextEvent. What is 
> the work-around for this problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> -- 
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
> 
> 


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