[kepler-dev] [Bug 1845] - user input for port type should not be case sensitive

[Shawn Bowers]

What about Boolean ?


-shawn

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 bugzilla-daemon at ecoinformatics.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845
>
> cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|                            |FIXED
>
>
>
> ------- Additional Comments From cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2005-12-18 23:43 -------
> I went ahead and fixed this in ptolemy/actor/gui/PortConfigurerDialog.java
> by adding a CellFixer class that has a String fixCell(String value) method.
> If type cell is invalid, then we call fixCell() with the invalid value
> and hopefully get back a fixed value.  If a fixed value is found, we set the
> combobox value.
>
> Right now the case insensitivity only works for fundamental types not arrays,
> matrices or records.  For example "Double" gets changed to "double", but
> "[Double]" does not get changed to "[double]".  To have this work in arrays,
> matrices and records would require making the parser case insensitive.  I'm
> not so sure that changing the parser is right, it could cause backward
> compatibility issues.
>
> I'm not totally sure that having the type in the combobox be case insensitive
> is the correct behaviour.  For example, one of the lamest parts of Windows
> is that the so-called file system is case insensitive, yet case preserving.
> This causes no end of trouble.  My concern here is that there is a slight chance
> we could be preventing the use of user defined types because "STRING" and
> "string" could mean two different types.  Anyway, I think this a very remote
> possibility, and I myself have had a hard time remembering the capitalization.
>
> Since we've had a combobox here, I've had a much easier time since the choice
> is there.  Now that the editable portion of the combobox is case insensitive
> and auto correcting, this should be even easier to handle.
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