Updating old code - how to put JButton in a TableFormBuilder.

[Mark Pollack]

Hi,

I'm updating an application from an extremely old version of Spring Rich (> 1 year old). I used to put a button in a form to help set additional contact information about a "Sales Account" (too many fields to put in the top level form) in the following manner

public class SalesAccountForm extends AbstractForm
{
    /// omitted...

    protected JComponent createFormControl()
    {
        SwingBindingFactory bf = (SwingBindingFactory) getBindingFactory();
        TableFormBuilder formBuilder = new TableFormBuilder(getBindingFactory());
        /// many other bindings...

        JButton contactButton = new JButton("Edit Contact Info");
        contactButton.addActionListener(new ContactActionListener());
        formBuilder.add("contactSearchButton", contactButton);
     }
}

however with verison 0.1.0 this now gives the error...

ERROR [AWT-EventQueue-0] 2006-08-29 19:29:45,651 [config.ApplicationLifecycleAdvisor] - Control must be an instance of JTextComponent.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Control must be an instance of JTextComponent.
	at org.springframework.util.Assert.isTrue(Assert.java:66)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.binding.swing.TextComponentBinder.doBind(TextComponentBinder.java:38)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.binding.support.AbstractBinder.bind(AbstractBinder.java:96)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.binding.support.AbstractBindingFactory.bindControl(AbstractBindingFactory.java:83)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.binding.support.AbstractBindingFactory.bindControl(AbstractBindingFactory.java:61)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.builder.AbstractFormBuilder.getBinding(AbstractFormBuilder.java:76)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.builder.TableFormBuilder.add(TableFormBuilder.java:69)
	at org.springframework.richclient.form.builder.TableFormBuilder.add(TableFormBuilder.java:65)
	at com.codestreet.admin.ui.SalesAccountForm.createFormControl(SalesAccountForm.java:135)

Any ideas? I'd like not to have to alter the layout if possible.

Thanks!
Mark

[Mathias Broekelmann]

do it this way:

TableLayoutBuilder layoutBuilder = formBuilder.getLayoutBuilder();
layoutBuilder.cell(contactButton);

[Mark Pollack]

Hi Mathias,
Thanks, worked like a charm....
Cheers,
Mark