Class: FilenameEditFieldV2

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • initialization
  • menu

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--GraphicsMedium
      |
      +--DisplaySurface
         |
         +--SimpleView
            |
            +--View
               |
               +--ComboView
                  |
                  +--ComboBoxView
                     |
                     +--FilenameEditFieldV2

Package:

stx:libtool

Category:

Interface-Tools-File

Version:

rev: 1.17 date: 2018/04/18 10:17:10

user: stefan

file: FilenameEditFieldV2.st directory: libtool

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libtool

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

like a normal editField, but does filename-completion on the last word of
the contents, when TAB is pressed.
Filename completion ignores regular files if directoriesOnly is true,
and ignores directories, if filesOnly is true. Both default to false.

Instance protocol:

 acceptOnExpand

return the autoAccept on filename expansion flag.
The default is true, which means that an expand accepts

 acceptOnExpand: aBoolean

set/clear autoAccept on filename expansion.
The default is true, which means that an expand accepts

 contents: someText

redefined to add a trailing file-separator if the displayed
filename is a directory

 contents: someText addSeparatorToDirectories: doAddSeparator

optionally add a trailing file-separator if the displayed
filename is a directory.

 directoriesOnly

set to expand names for directories only

 directory

 directory: aFilename

 filesOnly

set to expand names for files only

 initialText: aString selected: aBoolean

redefined to move the cursor to the end
- that's the most interesting part of a filename

 showsDirectoriesOnly

return if expanding names for directories only

 showsFilesOnly

return if expanding names for files only

 initialize

self menuButton visibilityChannel:(false asValue).

 realize

redefined to move the cursor to the end
- that's the most interesting part of a filename

 processEvent: anEvent

catch keyEvents in pulled menu (see redefined pullMenu-method).
Return true, if I have eaten the event

 pullMenu

pull the menu - triggered from the button