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Custom Property Editors

• Three kinds of editors
  • Text
  • Finite set of choices
  • Arbitrary painting and editing
• Implement PropertyEditor interface
• Or extend PropertyEditorSupport class
  

Editing Text Properties

• Convert between your type and String
  
• Define two methods
  

  public String getAsText()
  public void setAsText(String s)
  

• Property sheet uses text field
  

Editing Choice Properties

• Your type has finite set of string choices
• E.g. DrawMode.DRAW, DrawMode.FILL
• String[] getTags() returns array of choices
• Also need to define getAsText/setAsText
• Property sheet uses combo box

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