Disable a text field after it's first use.. JSP + Struts

[John Brown]

Hi,

In my code I have a jsp page, with text fields, buttons and a list box, myDetails.jsp, the information entered here is all
read/verified in ProcessMyDetailsAction.java. (I am also using Struts)

If the list box is populated, I want one of the text fields to be grayed out.(disabled or readonly)
(ie, after the first batch on info is entered, the details are displayed in the list box and the fields are empty, so more information can be entered, but I want the date textfield to be disabled, as I don't want to allow the user to change the date.)

I have a boolean variable set up in my java code, which is set to true if the list box is not empty,
and I am trying to read it on the jsp page to set the text field disabled property to true or false

here is the code i am using:
myDetails.jsp

<html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" dsabled="#{ProcessMyDetailsAction.listBoxPopulated}" />

ProcessMyDetailsAction. is my Java class and
listBoxPopulated is my boolean variable, which gets set to true.

If anyone has any suggestions, I would be greatful..

[Merrill Higginson]

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[Bear Bibeault]

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[Tom Rispoli]

I'm pretty familiar with struts 1.1, 1.2, and somewhat with 2.0. However I'm not familiar with the #{...} syntax you are using for you disabled attribute. It looks kind of like you're trying to use OGNL with a struts1 tag. What version of struts are you running? What is this #{} syntax?

[John Brown]

Tom,

Im using version 1.1, the syntax that I used was given to me by a mate who used it in another application. Im new to struts and JSP, so I thought this was normal code...

my program runs with this code, but it never picks up the true or false value from the class.

basically what I need is the correct code/syntax to access the variable that i have set up in my java class.

[Tom Rispoli]

I believe in struts 1.1 that actions in struts 1.1 are single threaded, there for any variables you store in your action class will be shared by any one executing that class since only one instance of it exists. I think you'll want to move listBoxPopulated into your form class.

From your jsp section I'm assuming that myDetails isn't a collection of any sort, just an object. I'd put listBoxPopulated in meDetails, set it and then do this:

   
<logic:equal name="myDetailsActionForm" property="myDetails.listBoxPopulated" scope="request" value="true">
  <html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" disabled="true" />
</logic:equal>
<logic:notEqual name="myDetailsActionForm" property="myDetails.listBoxPopulated" scope="request" value="true">
  <html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" disabled="false" />
</logic:notEqual>
 

 

[John Brown]

Thanks, tom, that has worked a treat..

[John Brown]

I have another question:

<logic:equal name="myDetailsActionForm" property="myDetails.listBoxPopulated" scope="request" value="true"> <html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" disabled="true" /></logic:equal><logic:notEqual name="myDetailsActionForm" property="myDetails.listBoxPopulated" scope="request" value="true"> <html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" disabled="false" /></logic:notEqual>


Using the same code, if I had another text box, is there a way that I can populate this text box, using the value of the fist one...

ie, when I do this:

<html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox2" styleId="TxBox2" disabled="false" value="myDetails.textBox2.value"/>

It seems that any combination I've tried with the value="myDetails.TxBox.value" will always put the string "myDetails.TxBox.value" in the text box, what I want is the value in the textbox, (the string that the user entered in)

I have tried all sorts of combiniation, but I always get the string of what ever is inside the " " value="whatEverIsHere"

Am I going complete the wrong way about this...?

[Tom Rispoli]

The second text field, I'm assuming that it has a corresponding property in your form class, you can just set the value of that property equal to the value that you have in the property for your first text field. If you'd prefere to do it in your jsp for some reason you can use the bean efine tag to put the value from the first text field into a scripting variable and then use a scriptlet to put this into the value attribute of the second text field. It would look something like this:

    
<html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox" styleId="TxBox" disabled="false" />
 
<bean :mrgreen: efine name="myDetailsActionForm" property="myDetails.textBox" id="textBoxValue"/>
 
<html:text name="myDetailsActionForm" maxlength="3" size="3" property="myDetails.textBox2" styleId="TxBox2" disabled="false" value="<%=textBoxValue%>"/>

Usually you want to try to avoid scriptlets though, I use them, but I usually feel worse about my self in the morning when I do.