Custom "math" CVP CallStudio element.

[e.gailiss]

I'm trying to create custom element for CallStudio. Something along the lines of built-in math element. It has to have some parameters and a button to open simple editor where I can enter multiple lines of text.

Dealing with parameters is easy, but I couldn't find any examples how to do this "button to open additional editor window". Can anyone point me to any samples?

Thank you!

Ervins

[vinodkewate]

If you are trying to pass Text as parameter to your Custom Configurable element, you could declare the field as TextField under setting configuration,

settingArray[n] = new Setting("TextEditor", "Enter Text Content",

                          "This setting is for large text content",

                          false,  // It is not required

                          true,   // It appears only once

                          true,   // It allows substitution

                          Setting.TEXTFIELD);

[e.gailiss]

Vinod,

Thank you for your suggestion.

At the moment I went with this suggestion. All is looking more or less fine but I have hit another problem - substitutions.

Textfield editor has substitutions enabled regardless if they are disabled for this parameter when Setting is created.

I couldn't find any way how to prevent substitution analysis happening on text field and data format I'm using involves {}.

I could replace curly brackets with some pattern and then replace them back in element logic itself, but then it looks like the way Hemal suggested - I have to create my own editor to modify textfield before saving..

Ervins

[hemal.mehta]

I assume you are looking for an editor similar to expression in Math element. Check for Math related classes in elements.jar. For example on CVP 8.5, it will be under:

C:\Cisco\CallStudio\eclipse\plugins\com.audiumcorp.studio.elements.core_8.5.1

You can look at the code for the same.

Hemal

[e.gailiss]

Hemal,

Thank you for suggestion.

In folder you mention contains only class files - pre-compiled java bytecode. Are those the files you were thinking about?

Ervins

[hemal.mehta]

Yes, you can decompile them.

Regards,

Hemal

[e.gailiss]

Hemal,

I decompiled class files - they use the same approach as Vinod suggested.

The problem with that is I need to disable substitution process in order to use curly brackets in text itself. Any ideas?

Thank you!

Ervins

[hemal.mehta]

Are you saying that you do not need the substitution functionality where the system will interpret what is there in the { } ? Could you give more details on what you are trying to accomplish ?

[janinegraves]

The real question is whether the updateApp.bat will allow you to use { }

for something other than specifying studio variable names! My guess is

that it won't.

[janinegraves]

You can disable substitution when you define the setting for the TextField.

Just set the 2nd boolean to false.

Setting constructor:

string real-name, string display-name, string description, boolean is

setting required?, boolean is substitution allowed?, boolean is the

setting single?, typeOfSetting

[e.gailiss]

Janine,

I already tried setting false for "substitution allowed". Result is - on main settings tab substitution button is grayed out, but on dialog where I can enter text it is available and usable. It looks like text entry dialog is ignoring setting setup parameters.

I'm creating text field setting like this:

Setting tp = new Setting("matrix", "matrix", "Logic martix",

  Setting.REQUIRED, Setting.SINGLE,

  Setting.SUBSTITUTION_NOT_ALLOWED, Setting.TEXTFIELD);

At the moment I get exception while loading custom element if I leave {} in place. As far as I can tell I have only 2 options:

1. Leave {} as they are in text field. Catch java exception when I try to get setting value and in exception handler get original pre-substituted value. Problem is, I couldn't find function to get pre-substituted value.

2. Avoid {} in original textfield. I don't have control how data are entered, so solution would be mangle input data (search&replace {}, URL encode, MIME encode or just plain zip input text) before saving setting in CallStudio. Then, in element doAction, get mangled data and un-mangle them. Problem with this is - I have to have a way to create my own GUI for entering text or at least intervene with "Save" button on text entry dialog. And I couldn't find a way how to do it.

... and maybe 3rd option - use dynamic configuration class to do the mangling. But I don't know if dynamic config class gets access to pre-substituted vaues or post-substituted values. Couldn't find that info in docs as-well.

Any ideas I'm missing or suggestions on the ones I mentioned?

Thanks for looking at this! I know I'm still a newbie.

Ervins

[janinegraves]

If you set the boolean to false, then the {} button should be greyed out

from the Text box - that's a bug.

I can't think of anything else other than using a different character

instead of then replacing it using regular expressions in the

java code.

[e.gailiss]

Since I cannot fix the bug, I agree that changing text content looks like easier way to proceed. Problem with this is  - I don't have that many points where I can make changes.

1. create my own GUI for text field.

2. use dynamic configuration - if that has access to pre-substituted element data.

I don't have any experience with both points. GUI would be more cleaner solution, I think. But I have not seen any documentation how to do that.

I'll try with dynamic config class but I don't think it has access to pre-substituted element data.

Ervins

[janinegraves]

Why can't you just modify your doAction?

retrieve the Setting Value then do a string replacement?

[hemal.mehta]

I do not see why this cannot be done by replacing the value of the Setting to the appropriate one in your action class.

Hemal