Class: ActiveHelpView

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • initialization
  • private
  • queries

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--GraphicsContext
      |
      +--DeviceGraphicsContext
         |
         +--GraphicsMedium
            |
            +--DisplaySurface
               |
               +--SimpleView
                  |
                  +--View
                     |
                     +--ActiveHelpView

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Interface-Help

Version:

rev: 1.32 date: 2009/11/17 13:30:13

user: cg

file: ActiveHelpView.st directory: libview2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview2

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

a bubbleHelp view.

Instances of myself show up either as a comics-like talking
view, or as a simple square popup. This is configured via the
styleSheet; the default is simple-square. 
To get the fancy comics style, add a resource 'activeHelpStyle' with 
a symbol-value of #cartoon.
However, be aware that some servers have performance problems with
these view-shapes (or do not support shapes at all).
Therefore, the default style is a rectangular popupView.

Related information:

    ActiveHelp

Class protocol:

 for: someText

create a bubble-view for some text

 for: someText onDevice: aDevice

create a bubble-view for some text

 with: aView

create a talking-view wrapping some other view

Instance protocol:

 contents: someText

set the text

 shapeStyle: aStyleSymbol

set the shapeStyle
currently, only nil, #cartoon or #cartoon2 are supported

 withView: aView

set the component view

 initStyle

setup viewStyle specifics

 realize

 computeShape

compute the shape, based upon the size of my component view

 resizeToFit

resize myself to make the component view fit

 isPopUpView

return true - I am a popUp type of view (no decoration, pop-to-top)