[izpack-users] Reading Attributes from install.xml

[Hal Vaughan]

On Monday 09 January 2006 01:57 am, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Remember I mentioned writing a class to read attributes given to panels in
> install.xml?
>
> It's done.  It requires there to be a file /res/install.xml, which means it
> has to be declared as a resource in the original install.xml file (whatever
> it is named).  It could easily be changed to read from any XML file
> anywhere in the install jar.
>
> I also edited PasswordPanel to get the panel attributes from this class
> instead of reading install.xml directly.
>
> It's time for sleep, but I thought I'd mention I had this working.  I can
> send you the class once I've had time to clean up the code (way to many
> debugging comments and printouts in there now!).
>
> I think I read somewhere that there was an intent to not let install.xml
> get too cluttered.  Unless I missed a method somewhere (and I looked
> carefully), the class I wrote (PanelAttributes) is the only allowance for
> reading the panel attributes.  If more panels are going to use this method
> of having attributes in the install.xml file, it seems to me it might be a
> good idea if either the install.xml file is automatically included OR just
> the <panels> section could be extracted and put in /res.
>
> Just some late night musings.  Let me know what you think and what I've
> missed on this.
>
> Keep well,
>
> Hal

Sorry -- this was a draft, was not supposed to go out yet.  I guess that's 
what happens when one is working at 2am when he should be asleep instead.

Apologies.

Hal