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Suggestion needed on UI fields editability

Submitted by Athen on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 17:23.
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Clive_c wrote:

Hi Gurus,

I have a web application that persist some information. The information are displayed on the UI and the editability of the fields are dependent on certain condition/fields. Even the buttons are constraint by these conditions and fields.

Right now, these conditions/logic of determining if a field is editable or a button should be enable/disabled are encapsulated in a class. Is there anyway I can better manage them?

Appreciate responses from all.

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Submitted by Jeroen van Bergen on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 02:53.
Clive, Interesting question. You could use an enum per field, listing the "functional" status of a field. The enum could contain a method like
public boolean isEditable() {...}
If the status of one or more other fields determines whether or not a field can be edited, you could use a state model for the set of fields and associate every state with a list of fields that can be edited. Fields that are not in that list are not editable by default.
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Describe your problem.

Submitted by hiwa (not verified) on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 18:00.

Describe your problem.

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Right now, these

Submitted by free online games (not verified) on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 14:48.

Right now, these conditions/logic of determining if a field is editable or a button should be enable/disabled are encapsulated in a class.

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interesting...

Submitted by indic (not verified) on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 17:27.

hm...

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