RadioGroup Internationalization

[karthick_3d]

Hi,

I am trying to put a RadioGroup with 2 Radio buttons in multiple languages.

e.g. "Male" and "Female" in English
or "m

[gslender]

Radio.getValue returns a Boolean... not sure what you mean by it returning either "Male" in english or "m

[karthick_3d]

Hi gslender,

Thanks for your reply.

Let me try to explain with the example.

For the already given example, If I put a button and add a listener which calls the below statement,

Window.alert(gendField.getValue().getBoxLabel())

I will be getting "Male" if the property loaded is english or "m

[gslender]

why not do this?

Radio maleRadio = new Radio();
maleRadio .setBoxLabel(constant.getMaleTxt());

Radio femaleRadio= new Radio();
femaleRadio.setBoxLabel(constant.getFemaleTxt());

RadioGroup gendField = new RadioGroup();
gendField.add(radio1);
gendField.add(radio2);

if (gendField.getValue() == maleRadio) { 
     // do what you need with male....
}

[karthick_3d]

Thanks gslender,

I would try to change my code like that.
But I am no sure if this will be useful for a generic solution (like choosing color, complexity level, etc).
The prototype of the code will look like this.

RadioGroup retField = new RadioGroup();
retField.setFieldLabel(label);

if(valueList != null && valueList.size() > 0) {

for(CodeNameModel codeNameModel: valueList) {

Radio radio = new Radio();
radio.setBoxLabel((String)codeNameModel.get(CodeNameModel.KEY_NAME));
radio.setData(CodeNameModel.KEY_CODE,
(String)codeNameModel.get(CodeNameModel.KEY_CODE));
retField.add(radio);

}
}

I thought of doing a small application as a prototype to show some of my project mates about the use of GWT & gxt. But worried to see the amount of code we write is getting larger . I am not sure how others see this? probably I am crap in writing a good code.

Regards
Karthick

[gslender]

there are lots of ways to do what you are trying to do - the cleanest would be (IMO) to extend Radio to MyIdRadio and add the constructor's and value fields that identify the radio button - similar to what you are doing with setting the data object, but probably cleaner looking - it would be nice if Radio used generics so you can store the label and id as part of the value - like we can do for TextField / ComboBox etc...


the nice aspect of Java is that you can easily/simply extend classes to do what you want/need etc...