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Subject: Re: How to retrieve wtkx:id?
From: Greg Brown <gkbrown@mac.com>
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Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 18:24:43 -0400
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I understand why you might expect it to work that way, especially if you are coming from HTML, but it doesn't. Consider that Java member variables are also accessible via reflection, but you still can't get a variable name from a class instance. WTKX isn't a DOM - it's just another way of instantiating classes.

Hope that helps clarify things.

Greg

On May 3, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Patrick Shea wrote:

> Well, they are declared in xml as id's and used in code in get(...) so they are quite public.
> 
> I was able to go around this by reflection but it's ugly and they should really be exposed at the component level I think.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Greg Brown" <gkbrown@mac.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 3, 2010 6:07pm
> To: user@pivot.apache.org
> Subject: Re: How to retrieve wtkx:id?
> 
> No. WTKX IDs don't work like HTML IDs - they are more like variable names. Just as there is no way to retrieve a variable name from an object instantiated in Java, there is no way to retrieve an ID from an object declared in WTKX.
> 
> On May 3, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Patrick Shea wrote:
> 
>> Is there a way to get the wtkx:id of a given component?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Patrick
>> 
> 
> 
>