add some specs for specifying text area height, width, how were these…

… absent?

README

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ Set behaviors like this:
   SimpleGuiCreator.show_blocking_message_dialog "you clicked button1!" 
 }  
 
-
 Having the layout as ASCII text separates views from controllers, in this case, because you can store the layouts in
 an entirely separate file (or embedded in the code).  "Normal humans" can then edit the design layout files, for instance.
 It has proven quite nice at separating concerns.
@@ -52,16 +51,16 @@ More complicated example:
 ---------- Window Title ----------------------------------
 | [a button:button1]   [button text:button2]             |
 | "some text2:text1"                                     |
-| [An Editable Text Area with 4 rows:text_area]          |
-| [                                           ]          |
-| [                                           ]          |
-| [                                           ]          |
+| [Editable Text Area with 4 rows  :text_area_name]      |
+| [                                              ]       |
+| [                                              ]       |
+| [                                              ]       |
 | [Dropdown Default \/ :dropdown_name]                   |
 | [✓:checkbox_name] "Some text"                         |
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
-See the file spec/parse_template.spec.rb for examples of how to use each element.
-The window borders are also optional.
+See the file spec/parse_template.spec.rb for examples of how to use the various elements.
+The window borders along the edge are optional.
 
 The library also has helper methods for common GUI tasks, like:
 
@@ -94,6 +93,24 @@ It has helpers to set/get system clipboard contents.
 It has helpers to control/query the system mouse.
 It has helpers to query the current system for its DVD drives, be notified when disks are inserted/changed, etc.
 
+
+Even more complicated example:
+
+---------- Window Title ----------------------------------
+| [a button:button1]   [button text:button2]             |
+| "some text2:text1"                                     |
+| [Editable Text Area with 4 rows   :text_area]          |
+| [                                           ]          |
+| [                                           ]          |
+| [                                           ]          |
+| [Editable Text Field with 1 row and fixed spacing chars  :width=700, height=1char, font=fixed_width]          |
+| [                                                                                                  ]          |
+| [Dropdown Default \/ :dropdown_name]                   |
+| [✓:checkbox_name] "Some text"                         |
+----------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
 Feedback/feature requests welcome.
 http://groups.google.com/group/roger-projects,  roger-projects@googlegroups.com
 I'd even be happy to wrap other gui frameworks (currently jruby/swing only) with the same functionality, 

lib/simple_gui_creator/parse_template.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ module SimpleGuiCreator
 
   include_package 'javax.swing'; 
 
-  [JFrame, JPanel, JButton, JTextArea, JLabel, UIManager, JScrollPane, JCheckBox, JComboBox, JComponent].each{|kls|
+  [JFrame, JPanel, JButton, JTextArea, JLabel, UIManager, JScrollPane, JCheckBox, JComboBox, JComponent, JTextField].each{|kls|
     kls.__persistent__=true # lazy me--also pull in the constant :)
   }
 
@@ -161,6 +161,11 @@ def handle_button_at_current captured, cur_spot, end_spot, all_lines, idx
   def get_text_width text
     get_text_dimentia(text).width
   end
+
+  def get_text_height text
+    get_text_dimentia(text).height
+  end
+
 
   def get_text_dimentia text
     font = UIManager.getFont("Label.font")
@@ -206,11 +211,17 @@ def setup_element element, name_and_code, height=nil, set_text_on_this = element
             end
 
             for name2 in ['abs_x', 'abs_y', 'width', 'height']
-              var = attributes_hashed.delete(name2)
+              var = attributes_hashed.delete(name2) # remove them
               if var
-                if var =~ /chars$/
+                if var =~ /char(s|)$/
                   count = var[0..-5].to_i
-                  var = get_text_width('m'*count) # TODO fails for height 30chars
+				  if name2 == 'width'
+                    var = get_text_width('m'*count)
+				  elsif name2 == 'height'
+				    var = get_text_height("lg")*count
+				  else
+				    raise "huh #{name2} #{var} has chars?"
+				  end
                 elsif var =~ /px$/
                   var = var[0..-3].to_i
                 else

spec/parse_template.spec.rb

@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ def parse_string string
 
   it "should accept zero length strings if they have a width spec" do
     frame = parse_string "| \":my_name,width=250\""
-	  frame.elements[:my_name].text.should == ''
+	frame.elements[:my_name].text.should == ''
+  end
+
+  it "should accept char as length" do
+    frame = parse_string "| \":my_name,width=255char\""
+	frame.elements[:my_name].size.width.should == 2719
+    frame = parse_string "| \":my_name,width=255chars\""
+	frame.elements[:my_name].size.width.should == 2719
   end
 
   it "should not add codeless items to elements" do
@@ -166,18 +173,38 @@ def get_dimentia(element)
    button.size.width.should==129 # bigger than 35, basically
  end
 
+# not yet anyway :)
+# it "should parse text fields [single line text areas]" do
+#   string = "[    :text_area,type=editable]  |"
+#   frame = parse_string string
+#	frame.elements[:text_area].class.should == Java::JavaxSwing::JTextField
+# end
+
  it "should parse text areas" do
     string = <<-EOL
 | [                             :text_area]                  |
+| [                                       ]                  |
+| [                            :text_area2]                  |
 | [                                       ]                  |
     EOL
 	frame = parse_string string
-	frame.elements[:text_area].class.should == Java::JavaxSwing::JTextArea
-	frame.elements.length.should == 1 # not create fake empty buttons underneath :)
+	frame.elements.length.should == 2 # not create fake empty buttons underneath :)
 	text_area_dimentia(frame.elements[:text_area]).should == [0, 0, 48, 319] # it's "sub-contained"  in a jscrollpane so these numbers are relative to that <sigh>
+	text_area_dimentia(frame.elements[:text_area2]).should == [0, 0, 48, 319] # ?? 308
+ end
+
+ it "should allow text area sizing" do
+    string = <<-EOL
+ [                             :text_area,width=155char,height=255chars] 
+ [                                                                     ] 
+    EOL
+	frame = parse_string string	
+	text_area_dimentia(frame.elements[:text_area]).should == [0, 0,  2833, 1649] # XXX is this a "perfect" height?
  end
 
  def text_area_dimentia(element)
+ 	element.class.should == Java::JavaxSwing::JTextArea
+   # weird swing bug? it doesn't propagate size for awhile or something?
    while(get_dimentia(element) == [0,0,0,0])
      puts 'weird TextArea 0,0,0,0'
      sleep 0.2
@@ -190,7 +217,6 @@ def text_area_dimentia(element)
    frame.elements.length.should == 0 # and hope it includes the colon in there :)
  end
 
-
  it "should allow for spaced out attributes" do
    frame = parse_string "| [      :text, width = 200          ] "
    get_dimentia(frame.elements[:text])[3].should == 200
@@ -206,8 +232,7 @@ def text_area_dimentia(element)
    [button : button][textare : textarea]
                     [                  ]
    EOL
-   text_area_dimentia(frame.elements[:textarea]).should == [0, 0, 32, 88]
-
+   text_area_dimentia(frame.elements[:textarea]).should == [0, 0, 32, 88]   
  end
 
  it "should allow for blank lines to mean spacing" do