Class ActiveTextEnterArea
- All Implemented Interfaces:
CSProcess
ActiveTextArea
that writes text to
the event channel only when ESCAPE is pressed.
Process Diagram
Description
ActiveTextEnterArea is a process containing anActiveTextArea
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configured with channels for event notification and configuration. The event channels
should be connected to one or more application-specific server processes (instead
of registering a passive object as a Listener to this component).
All channels are optional. The configure and event channels are settable from a constructor.
The difference between this class and ActiveTextArea is that text is only written to the event channel when ESCAPE is pressed on the text area (not on every keystroke). When this happens, the text area is temporarilly disabled for (by default) half a second; this is to give feedback to the user. The disable period can be changed by calling the setDisableTime method before the process is run.
The internal ActiveTextArea can be extracted with the getActiveTextArea method. Channels can then be added to notify the occurrence of any other type of Event the ActiveFrame generates. This is done by calling its appropriate addXXXEventChannel method (before the process is run). As many channels can be added as are needed.
Messages can be sent down the configure channel at any time to configure the component. See the table below for details.
All channels are managed by independent internal handler processes. It is, therefore, safe for a serial application process both to service an event channel and configure the component -- no deadlock can occur.
IMPORTANT: it is essential that the output channels from this process are always serviced -- otherwise the Java Event Thread will be blocked and the GUI will stop responding. The simplest way to guarantee this is to use channels configured with overwriting buffers. For example:
final One2OneChannel myTextAreaEvent = Channel.one2one (new OverWriteOldestBuffer (n)); final ActiveTextEnterArea myTextEnterArea = new ActiveTextEnterArea (null, myTextAreaEvent.out (), "Edit Me", 5, 20);This will ensure that the Java Event Thread will never be blocked. Slow or inattentive readers may miss rapidly generated events, but the n most recent events will always be available.
Channel Protocols
Input Channels | ||
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configure | String | Append the string to the text in this ActiveTextEnterArea |
Boolean |
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ActiveTextArea.Configure | Invoke the user-defined Configure.configure method on the textArea. | |
otherwise | Append the toString form of the object to the text in this ActiveTextArea. | |
Output Channels | ||
event | String | The text in the ActiveTextEnterArea (whenever ESCAPE is pressed) |
componentEvent | ComponentEvent | See the
getActiveTextArea .addComponentEventChannel method. |
focusEvent | FocusEvent | See the
getActiveTextArea .addFocusEventChannel method. |
keyEvent | KeyEvent | See the
getActiveTextArea .addKeyEventChannel method. |
mouseEvent | MouseEvent | See the
getActiveTextArea .addMouseEventChannel method. |
mouseMotionEvent | MouseEvent | See the
getActiveTextArea .addMouseMotionEventChannel method. |
Example
import org.jcsp.lang.*; import org.jcsp.util.*; import org.jcsp.awt.*; import java.awt.*; public class ActiveTextEnterAreaExample { public static void main (String argv[]) { final ActiveClosingFrame frame = new ActiveClosingFrame ("ActiveTextEnterArea Example"); final Any2OneChannel event = Channel.any2one (new OverWriteOldestBuffer (10)); final String[] string = {"Entia Non Sunt Multiplicanda Praeter Necessitatem", "Everything we do, we do it to you", "Race Hazards - What Rice Hozzers?", "Cogito Ergo Occam"}; final String goodbye = "Goodbye World"; final ActiveTextEnterArea[] activeText = new ActiveTextEnterArea[string.length]; for (int i = 0; i invalid input: '<' string.length; i++) { activeText[i] = new ActiveTextEnterArea (null, event.out (), string[i], 5, 40); } Panel panel = new Panel (new GridLayout (string.length/2, 2)); for (int i = 0; i invalid input: '<' string.length; i++) { panel.add (activeText[i].getActiveTextArea ()); } final Frame realFrame = frame.getActiveFrame (); realFrame.setBackground (Color.green); realFrame.add (panel); realFrame.pack (); realFrame.setVisible (true); new Parallel ( new CSProcess[] { frame, new Parallel (activeText), new CSProcess () { public void run () { boolean running = true; while (running) { String s = (String) event.in ().read (); System.out.println (s); running = (! s.equals (goodbye)); } realFrame.setVisible (false); System.exit (0); } } } ).run (); } }
- Author:
- P.D. Austin and P.H. Welch
- See Also:
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorsConstructorDescriptionConstructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars, but with no configuration or event channels or initial text or size.Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars and initial text, but with no configuration or event channels or initial size.ActiveTextEnterArea
(String s, int rows, int columns) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars and initial text and size, but with no configuration or event channels.ActiveTextEnterArea
(String s, int rows, int columns, int scrollbars) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with user-defined scrollbars and initial text and size, but with no configuration or event channels.ActiveTextEnterArea
(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars, but with no initial text or size.ActiveTextEnterArea
(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event, String s) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars and initial text, but with no initial size.ActiveTextEnterArea
(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event, String s, int rows, int columns) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars and initial text and size.ActiveTextEnterArea
(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event, String s, int rows, int columns, int scrollbars) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and user-defined scrollbars and initial text and size. -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionThis is used to get the ActiveTextArea within this component so that it can be configured (usingTextArea
orActiveTextArea
methods) or added to some container.void
run()
The main body of this process.void
setConfigureChannel
(AltingChannelInput configure) Sets the configuration channel for this ActiveTextEnterArea.void
setDisableTime
(long disableTime) This is used to set the time during which the text area is disabled after an ESCAPE has been entered.
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Constructor Details
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ActiveTextEnterArea
public ActiveTextEnterArea()Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars, but with no configuration or event channels or initial text or size. -
ActiveTextEnterArea
Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars and initial text, but with no configuration or event channels or initial size.- Parameters:
s
- the initial text displayed in the area.
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ActiveTextEnterArea
Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with scrollbars and initial text and size, but with no configuration or event channels.- Parameters:
s
- the initial text displayed in the area.rows
- the rows of the area.columns
- the columns of the area.
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ActiveTextEnterArea
Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with user-defined scrollbars and initial text and size, but with no configuration or event channels.- Parameters:
s
- the initial text displayed in the area.rows
- the rows of the area.columns
- the columns of the area.scrollbars
- the columns of the area (java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_BOTH, java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY, java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_HORIZONTAL_ONLY or java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE).
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ActiveTextEnterArea
Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars, but with no initial text or size.- Parameters:
configure
- the AltingChannelInput for configuration events -- can be null if no configuration is required.event
- the current text will be output when the text area is changed -- can be null if no notification is required.
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ActiveTextEnterArea
Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars and initial text, but with no initial size.- Parameters:
configure
- the AltingChannelInput for configuration events -- can be null if no configuration is required.event
- the current text will be output when the text area is changed -- can be null if no notification is required.s
- the initial text displayed in the area.
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ActiveTextEnterArea
public ActiveTextEnterArea(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event, String s, int rows, int columns) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and scrollbars and initial text and size.- Parameters:
configure
- the AltingChannelInput for configuration events -- can be null if no configuration is required.event
- the current text will be output when the text area is changed -- can be null if no notification is required.s
- the initial text displayed in the area.rows
- the rows of the area.columns
- the columns of the area.
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ActiveTextEnterArea
public ActiveTextEnterArea(AltingChannelInput configure, ChannelOutput event, String s, int rows, int columns, int scrollbars) Constructs a new ActiveTextEnterArea with configuration and event channels and user-defined scrollbars and initial text and size.- Parameters:
configure
- the AltingChannelInput for configuration events -- can be null if no configuration is required.event
- the current text will be output when the text area is changed -- can be null if no notification is required.s
- the initial text displayed in the area.rows
- the rows of the area.columns
- the columns of the area.scrollbars
- the columns of the area (java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_BOTH, java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY, java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_HORIZONTAL_ONLY or java.awt.TextArea.SCROLLBARS_NONE).
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Method Details
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setConfigureChannel
Sets the configuration channel for this ActiveTextEnterArea. This method overwrites any configuration channel set in the constructor.- Parameters:
configure
- the channel for configuration events -- can be null if no configuration is required.
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setDisableTime
public void setDisableTime(long disableTime) This is used to set the time during which the text area is disabled after an ESCAPE has been entered.NOTE: This may only be called before this process is run.
- Parameters:
disableTime
- the disable time after an ESCAPE.
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getActiveTextArea
This is used to get the ActiveTextArea within this component so that it can be configured (usingTextArea
orActiveTextArea
methods) or added to some container. For example, event channels can be added by invoking getActiveTextArea().addXXXEventChannel(...).NOTE: such configuration must be finished before this process is run.
NOTE: do not use this method to set a configure channel - use an appropriate constructor or
setConfigureChannel
.- Returns:
- the ActiveTextArea within this component.
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run
public void run()The main body of this process.
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