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Binding Elements

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3. From the “Page returned” pop-up menu, select

null

.

The value returned by an action method represents the next page
(component) to be displayed. When you return

null

(or

nil

if using

WebScript), the current page is redrawn. In a later task, you’ll see how
to return a new component.

4. Click Add.

The

submit

action appears below a horizontal line in the first column

of the object browser.

5. Click

submit

in the object browser and drag the cursor to the submit

button.

The Inspector opens with the button’s

action

attribute selected.

6. Click Connect Variable.

You just bound the

submit

method you created to the

action

attribute of

the WOSubmitButton. You don’t need to write any additional code, so
your application is now ready to run. However, you may want to look at
your source file.

7. From the pull-down menu at the bottom of the window, choose View

Source File.

Project Builder becomes active and displays the code for your
component (in

Main.java

). You’ll notice that this file contains declarations

for the variables you created earlier, as well as a declaration for the

submit

action method.