Hey guys,
I am in trouble once again. I made a control that types text on screen, but I am in trouble because I can’t get any text from outside the control.
Basically I want to use ${CALL.test()} syntax to get some custom text in my effect that is used in the control, but right now it doesn’t seem to work.
It works fine when I use it outside of the control definition.
Do you guys know some solution for it?
Basically it’s a form like:
Name: ${CALL.getName()}
Age: ${CALL.getAge()}
etc.
[xml]
<controlDefinition name=“progressbar” controller=“testp.MenuControl”>
<panel childLayout=“horizontal”>
<text visible=“false” id=“massData” style=“textFont” >
<effect>
<onCustom name=“test” length=“10000” startDelay=“2000” text="${CALL.test()}"/>
</effect>
</text>
</panel>
</controlDefinition>
[/xml]
Wow…
Now that I have had my first impact with nifty I suddenly feel bad and also good…
The thing is I spent hours and hours developing a control and now that I almost got it I ran into trouble, retought my strategy, did all from scratch without any control so far and I got the same work done in half an hour and with lots and lots fewer lines of code…
Still that method calling from controlDefinition interests me.
Will do when I find it 
Another question that arose while using nifty - aren’t there any better ways to get dynamic text content on the screen than having get methods in the controller?
I would like to have a model object that contains my information, and I would like to use something like ${CALL.getModel().getName()}
Or better yet, I would like to have things like:
[xml]
<screen id=“start” controller=“test.MenuControl” model=“getModel()”> <!-- where getModel is a method for the controller -->
<text text="${MODEL.getName()}" /> <!-- MODEL represents the data model I asked from the controller–>
<text text="${CALL.add(2,2)}" />
[/xml]
Without such things I see the controller code going really dirty really fast - or is there already a way to use methods that come from JavaBean class?
no, there is no java beans binding available for nifty >_<
the 1.3 standard controls will have a better API to access labels and text from java tho so the prefered way now would be to update the elements directly from java.