5.5.2.1.8. CurrencyField

CurrencyField is a subtype of a text field designed for currency value input. It has a currency symbol inside the field and is aligned to the right by default.

gui currencyField

XML-name of the component: currencyField.

CurrencyField is implemented for Web Client only.

Basically, CurrencyField repeats the functionality of TextField. You can manually set a datatype for the field, except that only numeric datatypes inheriting NumericDatatype class are supported. If the datatype is unparseable, an exception will be thrown.

CurrencyField can be bound to a datasource using the datasource and the property attributes:

<currencyField currency="$"
               datasource="orderDs"
               property="amount"/>

currencyField attributes:

  • currency - a text that will be a content of the currency label.

    <currencyField currency="USD"/>

  • currencyLabelPosition - sets the position of currency label inside the field:

    • LEFT - to the left from the text input component,

    • RIGHT - to the right from the text input component (default value).

  • showCurrencyLabel - defines whether the currency label should be displayed.

Attributes of currencyField

align - caption - colspan - currency - currencyLabelPosition - datasource - datatype - description - editable - enable - height - icon - id - property - required - requiredMessage - rowspan - showCurrencyLabel - stylename - visible - width

Predefined styles of currencyField

huge - large - small - tiny

API

addValidator - addValueChangeListener - commit - discard - isModified - setCurrency - setCurrencyLabelPosition - setShowCurrencyLabel