Hi,
I have a question on cloverGUI.
I’ve build a very simple custom component with cloverGUI, that reads data from XML file and writes to mySQL.
Now I need to add this custom component to palette in the clover GUI under a new category (readers, writers etc…).
My question is :
where can I find the DTD of custom component definition file?.
Thanks for you help.
regards
A.
Hi,
look in the chapter 5 of the Clover GUI manual, which can be found here: http://wiki.clovergui.net/docs/cloveret … 060905.pdf
There is the DTD you’re looking for, and an example component definition file. The DTD is a little bit outdated, but it will work. New features (available in clover GUI 1.7) which are not yet described in the manual are:
- required ports - you can specify whether a port must have a connected edge, or not (e.g. usually “logging” ports are not mandatory). A required port without a connected edge will be displayed in red color in the GUI.
- port label - text label which is displayed alongside the port number
example (quite self-explaining):
I’ve jsut checked, and unfortunately you cannot add your own component category. You must use one of these category names:
- readers
- writers
- joiners
- transformers
- others
- userDefined
Thank you for your help.
Other thing about custom component, I can’t set the custom component icon. What the path root of iconPath tag.
How can I set correctly the icon path.
Thanks for your collaboration.
Abdelillah.
Hi,
unfortunately the iconPath attribute does not work correctly for custom components. More specifically, the root of the iconPath is somewhere inside the Clover GUI plugin jar file. So, you can can set the iconPath only to the paths of icons stored in the jar file. Unfortunately, because of code obfuscation you will most probably not be able to browse the jar file and look at the icons. I can give you a list of valid icon paths which you can put in the iconPath:
icons/addField.gif
icons/asterix.gif
icons/browseDatabase.gif
icons/comp16.gif
icons/comp32.gif
icons/compcat.gif
icons/connect16.gif
icons/connect32.gif
icons/debug.gif
icons/decrement.gif
icons/decretarget.gif
icons/dreader16.gif
icons/dreader32.gif
icons/dwriter16.gif
icons/dwriter32.gif
icons/error.gif
icons/flatmetadata16.gif
icons/gear.gif
icons/gear16.gif
icons/increment.gif
icons/incretarget.gif
icons/info.gif
icons/launcherMainTab.gif
icons/lookupTable.gif
icons/metadata.gif
icons/outline.gif
icons/overview.gif
icons/passThrough.gif
icons/removeAll.gif
icons/removeField.gif
icons/saveAs.gif
icons/scopy16.gif
icons/scopy32.gif
icons/todo.gif
icons/validate.gif
icons/warning.gif
icons/add-driver-property-16.png
icons/add-driver-property-disabled-16.png
icons/add-library-16.png
icons/add-library-disabled-16.png
icons/aggragate32.png
icons/aggregate16.png
icons/aggregate32.png
icons/approxJoin16.png
icons/approxJoin32.png
icons/component-group-16.png
icons/concatenate16.png
icons/concatenate32.png
icons/connection-16.png
icons/connection-external-16.png
icons/connection-group-16.png
icons/dataIntersection16.png
icons/dataIntersection32.png
icons/dataReader16.png
icons/dataReader32.png
icons/dataWriter16.png
icons/dataWriter32.png
icons/dbExecute16.png
icons/dbExecute32.png
icons/dbInputTable16.png
icons/dbInputTable32.png
icons/dbOutputTable16.png
icons/dbOutputTable32.png
icons/dedup16.png
icons/dedup32.png
icons/denormalizer16.png
icons/denormalizer32.png
icons/driver-libraries-16.png
icons/driver-library-16.png
icons/driver-properties-16.png
icons/editor16.png
icons/editor32.png
icons/editor64.png
icons/filter16.png
icons/filter32.png
icons/jdbc-driver-16.png
icons/jdbc-driver-add-16.png
icons/join16.png
icons/join32.png
icons/keyGenerator16.png
icons/keyGenerator32.png
icons/lookup-16.png
icons/lookup-group-16.png
icons/merge16.png
icons/merge32.png
icons/metadata-16.png
icons/metadata-external-16.png
icons/metadata-group-16.png
icons/navDown.png
icons/navFloor.png
icons/navLeft.png
icons/navRight.png
icons/navTop.png
icons/navUp.png
icons/normalizer16.png
icons/normalizer32.png
icons/note16.png
icons/note32.png
icons/note-group-16.png
icons/parameter-16.png
icons/parameter-file-16.png
icons/parameter-group-16.png
icons/partition16.png
icons/partition32.png
icons/reader16.png
icons/reader32.png
icons/reformat16.png
icons/reformat32.png
icons/remove-16.png
icons/remove-disabled-16.png
icons/sequence-16.png
icons/sequence-group-16.png
icons/simpleCopy16.png
icons/simpleCopy32.png
icons/simpleGather16.png
icons/simpleGather32.png
icons/sort16.png
icons/sort32.png
icons/systemExecute16.png
icons/systemExecute32.png
icons/trash16.png
icons/trash32.png
icons/xlsReader16.png
icons/xlsReader32.png
icons/xlsWriter16.png
icons/xlsWriter32.png
We will fix the iconPath for custom components in the future.
Thanks!
Jaro
Thanks you Jaro for your appreciably helps.
regards.
Abdelillah