Property Pane ++ ?

[genscan]

The Property Pane is the most common way for dumping properties. But it is very "developer oriented", you never find this kind of presentation under Word..Excel..., and in the application I develop, users are a little bit confused, with this view.

Could you imagine a way to have another view of the property list ? for example, the category could be vertical tabs (like side pane), each property is not a row in a table but a property editor in a JPanel with a high design etc... (like in the last release of PhotoShop)



It's time to introduce a new standard

Regards,
Genscan

[JIDE Support]

I like this idea. Will see what we can do here. Thanks.

[genscan]

Any news about this kind of property view ?
I see more and more graphical tools implementing this simplier view...
Thanks for your feedback.

[JIDE Support]

Actually I tried to look at Photoshop CS to see this property sheet you talked about but couldn't find it. Where do you get that screenshot?

Thanks,

[neadamthal]

has there been any progress on this??

i would have to agree that this format is better than the existing.

[JIDE Support]

We didn't do anything about it yet. As I said in this thread, I can't find it in Photoshop CS although genscan mentioned Photoshop. I really want to see it in action so that I can make the decision if we should make it a high priority.

Thanks,

[genscan]

Just a little update on this topic, cause I look at this property pane, and I think it's a good step for targeting end users.
Thanks.

[nicola.gioia]

if i use a propertyTable to update some object properties, can I have an event to eventually disable the confirm button when the property I editing have uncorrect format?
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[JIDE Support]

genscan, the hard part of this property table is to layout the form automatically. I guess you expect it, right? Otherwise, you can layout out the fields all by yourself manually.

nicola.gioia, I am not sure if I understand but I'll try. PropertyTableModel supports PropertyChangeListener. It will fire property change event when a Property in PropertyTableModel value changes because user changes the cell. I wonder if you can use this event to do things like disabling the confirm button.

BTW, you can start a new thread next time if the post is not related to the current discussion.

Thanks,

[pphiremath]

I want to use PropertyTable stand alone (i.e. not inside a PropertyPane) and have no categories, how do i remove the 'misc' category that gets added.

Also how do I change the column header texts.

Thanks

[JIDE Support]

You just set to setOrder to PropertyTableModel.SORTED or UNSORTED to get rid of the category.

You can override getColumnName method in PropertyTableModel to change the header texts.

Thanks,