Trying to work with Beans

Classic Servoy
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I am trying to work with Beans, and being a novice at the process I don’t know how any of the properties work on the beans that come with Servoy. I know that they are not created by Servoy, but I am having a hard time finding documentation on the web for ANY of the beans listed. It is as if the Java community is playing “I have a secret”. In general I find the Java community to be very illusive and secretive compared to other programming language communities.
If someone could point me in right direction to get general properties information about the standard beans that come with Servoy, it would be very helpful.

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Which beans are you talking about? Because if I do a google search on “java jtextfield” for example, the first hit gives me all the java documentation of the bean and the second or third hit points to a tutorial “how to use a JTextField”.

Paul

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In general I find the Java community to be very illusive and secretive compared to other programming language communities.

Hmm, I wonder how I learned the language…

Searching the internet for whatever Java goodie gives me a ton of information. Simply start every search with java *** or when it is is swing jtextfield will help you!

This site can give you valuable information: http://www.exampledepot.com/

The thing you might stumble upon is the fact that Java is mostly not about a wysiwyg gui but working with plain code.

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I am specifically looking for how to hook up a parallel chart. I know the properties need to be laid in via a method, but when I do a google search for javabeans parallelChart all I get is a bunch of people who want to sell me there javabeans to chart information. I can’t find anything on the one that comes with Servoy. And of course Servoy is very hands off on this subject.

This site can give you valuable information: http://www.exampledepot.com/

I only find information on pie charts.

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There is an overview and examples of using beans at http://www.servoymagazine.com/home/2004 … trodu.html

Servoy ships with several beans as a convenience, but they are not actually part of the Servoy application itself. Any properly created bean can be used with Servoy by just placing the bean’s .jar file into the /servoy/beans folder.