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What is the difference between extending a component and overlaying a component. Can someone please explain with developer point of view.
Overlay Component:
Creating a custom component by copying a foundation component to your project and modifying it based on the need.
For example you copy image component from “/libs/foundation/components/image” to your site folder “/apps/testsite/components” by doing so you are creating a new component with is exactly same as Image component.
After copying you can make changes to component based on your requirements. But the problem with this approach would be that if you are upgrading CQ then new version of CQ might have new implementation of “/libs/foundation/components/image” component than those changes will not be reflected in your “/apps/testsite/components/image” component,
so you have to manually make those changes in custom component.
Extend/Override Component:
Creating a custom component manually by creating all necessary nodes and setting value of “sling:resourceSuperType” property as “/libs/foundation/components/image”. By doing this you inherit all the feature of image component, even after upgrade you still inherit the features of image component.
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I have successfully populated a TreeView via creating a TreeDataProvider and customized the icons and its collapse-able property. Now I want to be able to drag and drop its ViewItem(s) onto a WebView. There are unfortunately no samples for drag and drop. Reading through the TreeView source, ViewItem(s) are created in HeightMap.OnInsertItems() via the TreeView.createViewItem(), from the derived class.
The public TreeView.onInsertItem() would appear to be a great extension point, extending TreeView and onInsertItem() and capturing its ViewItem parameter. This Unfortunately, the creation of the concrete class, ExtHostTreeView, that is ultimately created, is buried in layers of private methods (createExtHostTreeViewer()).
Strangely, the ViewItem has a setter for draggable. However, how would you ever get a reference to the ViewItem to set it? If there is a way to do this please point me at an example. If there is not, I would be glad to fork and implement it. Leaving the existing onInsertItem and perhaps add an array of handlers to be added to with an addOnInsertItemListener() method? Or perhaps use RxJS?
There are so many places this could be used. You could drag template fragments into documents or code, DSL rules into a expert system, configuration file values into parameters or right hand values (generating the code to retrieve the value). Thank you for any assistance.
It seems that drag and drop in custom views is currently not supported. There's a (fairly popular) feature request for it here:
Add drag and drop for contributed tree views (#32592)
As of version 1.66 (March 2022) there is a TreeDragAndDropController which can be used for some drag & drop actions.
In April 2022, their sample focuses on drag & drop within a tree view: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/main/tree-view-sample/src/testViewDragAndDrop.ts
It is also possible to use the text/url-list type as described in the documentation to allow for dragging files to the editor panel: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/dc2f5d8dd1790ac4fc6054e11b44e36884caa4be/src/vscode-dts/vscode.d.ts#L9843-L9859
It is not clear to me yet whether it is possible to drag arbitrary data to webviews or to use standard HTML5 drag & drop API in a webview to allow dragging data to a custom tree view.
I have successfully populated a TreeView via creating a TreeDataProvider and customized the icons and its collapse-able property. Now I want to be able to drag and drop its ViewItem(s) onto a WebView. There are unfortunately no samples for drag and drop. Reading through the TreeView source, ViewItem(s) are created in HeightMap.OnInsertItems() via the TreeView.createViewItem(), from the derived class.
The public TreeView.onInsertItem() would appear to be a great extension point, extending TreeView and onInsertItem() and capturing its ViewItem parameter. This Unfortunately, the creation of the concrete class, ExtHostTreeView, that is ultimately created, is buried in layers of private methods (createExtHostTreeViewer()).
Strangely, the ViewItem has a setter for draggable. However, how would you ever get a reference to the ViewItem to set it? If there is a way to do this please point me at an example. If there is not, I would be glad to fork and implement it. Leaving the existing onInsertItem and perhaps add an array of handlers to be added to with an addOnInsertItemListener() method? Or perhaps use RxJS?
There are so many places this could be used. You could drag template fragments into documents or code, DSL rules into a expert system, configuration file values into parameters or right hand values (generating the code to retrieve the value). Thank you for any assistance.
It seems that drag and drop in custom views is currently not supported. There's a (fairly popular) feature request for it here:
Add drag and drop for contributed tree views (#32592)
As of version 1.66 (March 2022) there is a TreeDragAndDropController which can be used for some drag & drop actions.
In April 2022, their sample focuses on drag & drop within a tree view: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-samples/blob/main/tree-view-sample/src/testViewDragAndDrop.ts
It is also possible to use the text/url-list type as described in the documentation to allow for dragging files to the editor panel: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/dc2f5d8dd1790ac4fc6054e11b44e36884caa4be/src/vscode-dts/vscode.d.ts#L9843-L9859
It is not clear to me yet whether it is possible to drag arbitrary data to webviews or to use standard HTML5 drag & drop API in a webview to allow dragging data to a custom tree view.
I would like to create an application which shows a custom component in ApplicationB which is created in ApplicationA (like we maintain UI projects in C#.NET). It's like allowing the ApplicationB to consume the generic component screen from ApplicationA and modify its contents before rendering the screen (say Title for instance). I could create custom components but was unable to reference it to new project for use, and also wonder how to handle click events for the controls created in custom component for which they should have implemented some event subscription mechanism.
I am using the below URL to create custom components:
https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/documentation/ui/custom_components/custom_components_tutorial.html
But the above tutorial doesnt show how to bind events from parent to custom component.
The closest thing to what you describe in Cascades are Cards. However it doesn't sound like this is what you want. If you can implement your UI elements entirely in QML, and place them in a shared directory ApplicationB could import the elements and use them. If you implement in C++ you could create a library (either static or dynamic) and link ApplicationB to the library.
I've been asked to create a CQ5 "overlay" component by simply copying the out-of-box component from /libs/foundation/components/flash to /apps/myproject/components/flash. My question is: what happens to the original - is it just ignored?
a CQ5 "overlay" leverages sling rules for resource resolving. if /libs/foundation/components/flash needs an overlay, you "overlay" the corresponding file at location /apps/foundation/components/flash/filename This will CHANGE how the foundation component behaves in all instances. And the existing sidekick component remains, but behaves differently.
If you have a NEW component at /apps/myproject/components/flash, it can inherit from the foundation component via sling:resourceSuperType on the new component. In that case, you have a new component in the sidekick. In your new component, you could use the same values for jcr:title, componentGroup, or you could change them to distinguish your component in the sidekick. If the title, componentGroups are the same, the sidekick can distinguish them with parenthesis around the webapp (foundation) vs (myproject). However, I have seen situations where it is impossible as an author to distinguish them.
It is not ignored. Both components can show up in the authors' sidekick -- one will say flash (foundation), the other flash (myproject). When one of these is used by an author CQ will instantiate appropriately. The usual rules apply for what shows up in the sidekick (group name, selected in design mode, etc.)
Just to clarify: overlay and flash are two different things.
Sample of overlay implementation: http://jquerytools.org/documentation/overlay/index.html
So if you were asked to create an Overlay component, copying a Flash one might not be the best idea.
In my application,I am working on WPF with MVVM design pattern doing validations through Enterprise Library using configuration file.
I want to validate my grid cell values through enterprise library configuration file.In my view model I have an objservalble collection property that is bound to the datagrid in a view.
Then,I want to validate one of my cell value for range validation using enterprise library..But I am not finding any proper way to do the same.I don't want to use any custom validator rather want to achieve with the enterprise library configuration file only.
Actually while adding a validation to datagrid column we are binding like:-
<xa:ValidatorRule RulesetName="NameOfRuleset" SourceType="{x:Type vm:ViewModelType}" SourcePropertyName="NameOfProperty" ValidationSpecificationSource="Configuration" ValidatesOnTargetUpdated="True" />
But as in this case my view model will not have a property specifically for this field rather it has collection,so i am stucked on how to do the same,
Can anyone please guide me how to achieve the same.Please let me know if my explanation is not clear enough.
Found a solution for the same.
Created a one more class for my collection & in configuration file as well as in view I am refering to that class type only instead of refering to my viewmodel.
Reason why I created new class is I am using Entity framework & i cannot refer to DAL layer in my UI but I can refer to my own type in view.
In this way it solved my problem of adding validation rules to the datagrid that is binded to the collection.
Incase anybody needs sample code,let me know I can provide the same.