Class: CompositeSpecCollection

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • building
  • converting
  • enumerating
  • parsing a view

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--CompositeSpecCollection

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.9 date: 2013/06/04 10:13:34

user: cg

file: CompositeSpecCollection.st directory: libui

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libui

Author:

Claus Atzkern

Description:

Not normally used by applications.

Notice: 
    this class was implemented using protocol information
    from alpha testers, literature and by read public domain code
    - it may not be complete or compatible to
    the corresponding ST-80 class. 
    If you encounter any incompatibilities, please forward a note 
    describing the incompatibility verbal (i.e. no code) to the ST/X team.

Related information:

    UIBuilder
    UIPainter

Class protocol:

 supportsSubComponents

(comment from inherited method)
answer whether instances of the spec class support sub components

Instance protocol:

 collection

return collection

 collection: something

set collection

 compositeSpec

return compositeSpec

 compositeSpec: something

set compositeSpec

 buildSubViewsFor: aBuilder in: v

 buildViewFor: aBuilder in: v

(comment from inherited method)
create and set attributes.
No need to redefine

 buildViewWithLayoutFor: aBuilder in: v

 createViewFor: aBuilder in: aView

(comment from inherited method)
low level create - no attributes are set.
Can be redefined for special creation (see arbitraryComponentSpec)

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: aSpecArray

initialize my values from a specArray

 literalArrayEncoding

(comment from inherited method)
generate a literalArrayEncoding array for myself.
This uses #literalArrayEncodingSlotOrder which defines the slots and
order and #skippedInLiteralEncoding which defines slots to skip.
For most subclasses, there is no need to redefine those.

 do: aBlock

(comment from inherited method)
evaluate aBlock for me and all of my sub-componen-specs.
To be redefined in specs which have children

 fromView: aView callBack: aBlock

(comment from inherited method)
extract attributes from aView

 fromViews: aCollectionOfViews callBack: aBlock