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Foil 37 BeanInfo Interface Methods

From Javabeans Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Nancy McCracken, Wojtek Furmanski


1 getAdditionalBeanInfo() This method allows a BeanInfo object to return an arbitrary collection of other BeanInfo objects that provide additional information on the current bean.
2 getBeanDescriptor()
3 getDefaultEventIndex() A bean may have a "default" event that is the event that will mostly commonly be used by people when using the bean.
4 getDefaultPropertyIndex() A bean may have a "default" property that is the property that will mostly commonly be initially chosen for update by people who are customizing the bean.
5 getIcon(int) This method returns an image object that can be used to represent the bean in toolboxes, toolbars, etc.
6 getEventSetDescriptors()
7 getMethodDescriptors()
8 getPropertyDescriptors() These three methods each return an array of the descriptor objects.

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