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Bug 349740

Summary:	add button actions to XSD for JAXB RM
Product:	[Tools] PTP	Reporter:	Albert L. Rossi <arossi>
Component:	RM	Assignee:	Albert L. Rossi <arossi>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Albert L. Rossi

2011-06-17 18:08:14 EDT

A potentially useful feature currently missing from the JAXB definition is the ability to define actions and associate them with buttons.  For instance, if there is a combo widget which gets its items from parsing the output of a command, it may be desirable to rerun the command to refresh the items without having to stop and restart the RM.

An action could be a command, or there could be certain fixed internal types as well.

The amount of work it would take to add this feature is quite modest:

1. Add an "action" section to the XSD (just after the commands makes sense);
2. Add an "action" attribute to the widget type;
3. Add a method to the UI builder to build a button linked to the action.
4. Add an action runnable triggered by such a button.

Comment 1 Albert L. Rossi

2011-06-20 00:41:48 EDT

This has been added to HEAD.  I tested a simple example of a command which populates combo widgets when the button is pressed (rather than at start-up).