Luc Bors Weblog

Imagine a restaurant which serves great food, preferably your own favorite restaurant. Now imagine that this same restaurant, has your own personalized menu. Wouldn't that be great. You could just go there and eat whatever you feel like at that moment. The same goes for the application you build. If you use ADF-Faces and a panelpage with menu facets to show the menu in your application, the framework tells you how your menu works, and almost what it looks like. So this is what my menu looked like. The ADF-faces menu has a couple of annoying features. First of all the size of the Menubar. If you have about 10 menu items (or less but with very long labels) the end users have to scroll to the right to see all items. You would easily miss the menu items on the far right. End users just love the pulldown menu's that they are used to. They use it in OracleForms, they use it in TwoLetterWord Office, and so on. Secondly, the faces-config, in which the menu is configured will load only ...

A couple of days ago some one asked me if it was possible to bind inline style properties to a backing bean using Expression Language. I knew this was possible so I explained him how to do that. This also was a nice opportunity to try out how an af:inputNumberSlider works. I wanted to use the value of the slider to set the fontsize in the rest of my example application. It worked ! Here's how I did it. First you have to drop the af:inputNumberSlider on your page. You also have to drop an af:outputText on your page. This textfield will contain the displayed text. If you want the page to use the value of the slider immediately, you have to set the autosubmit property of the slider to true. After that, give the slider an id and use this id in the partial triggers property of the inputtext. Finally you have to bind the slider and the outputtext to a backingbean. In this bean you will read the slidervalue and use it to set the size of the text in the outputtext. The source of the bean l...

Recently this blog was mentioned on ' blogs.oracle.com ' and on Steve Muench's weblog . Thanks Steve ! I guess my weblog is getting more popular by the week ("I Love Google Analytics"). So I want to put some really new stuff here. I also want to post at least once every week..... Here's my challenge ! I want to write on templating, LOV's and other new features, but that takes time. And I'm not just doing stuff for my blog. I'm also working ;-) But I'll see what I can do. First I'll try to isolate some solutions we had to implement in the prvious project. And if there's more time ......