MyText.HTML

 
<font size="2"><webobject name=AHint></webobject></font><br> 
<webobject name=AText></webobject>

MyText.WOD (Continued)

 
AHint: WOString 
{ 
	value = hintValue; 
}; 
AText: WOText 
{ 
	value = stringTextValue; 
	rows = rowValue; 
	cols = colValue; 
	escapeHTML = escapeHTMLValue; 
};

MyText.WOS

 
id hintValue, rowValue, colValue, stringTextValue, escapeHTMLValue;

We use the MyText dynamic element to input a headline. The following declarations are made in the WOD file.

WOD file

 
Headline: MyText
 
{
 
	stringTextValue = myDocument.headline;
 
	hintValue = "enter Headline here";
 
	rowValue = "2";
 
	colValue = "50";
 
	escapeHTMLValue = NO;
 
};

When the Headline element is displayed, "enter Headline here" appears on the top and the HTML form text field appears on the bottom.

Building a custom dynamic element by subclassing WODynamicElement is deprecated. In WebObjects 4, the performance and functionality of component-based dynamic elements eliminates the need to subclass WODynamicElement. The WebObjects Examples contain a framework called ComponentElement.fproj which contains component versions of every WebObjects dynamic element. This framework illustrates the power of component-based dynamic elements.