Constant Element

Group membership: Property & method calls

Puts a constant on the stack ready for consumption by a methodCall, property or return element. The constant's value will be put on the JGB stack, and not the constant's name.

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Description
name	CDATA	Yes	Must resolve to a fully qualified class name, followed by a period, and the name of a public, static and final field in the class. The class name will be resolved using the standard classpath. So, the class must be resolvable from the thread that is building the window.

Name

Type

Required

Description

name

CDATA

Yes

Must resolve to a fully qualified class name, followed by a period, and the name of a public, static and final field in the class.

The class name will be resolved using the standard classpath. So, the class must be resolvable from the thread that is building the window.

Example usage

…
<property name="backgroundColor">
    <constant name="java.awt.Color.BLUE"/>
</property>
…

Parent element(s)

constraints, parameter, property, sheet.

Child element(s)

None