Class: FullSpec

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • building
  • converting
  • enumerating
  • inspecting
  • parsing a view
  • testing
  • visiting

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--ViewWithSubcomponentsSpec
            |
            +--FullSpec

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.59 date: 2023/04/03 11:52:19

user: stefan

file: FullSpec.st directory: libui

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libui

Description:

Not normally used by applications.

Notice: 
    this class was implemented using protocol information
    from alpha testers, literature and by reading public domain code
    - it may be incomplete or oncompatible 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.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Instance protocol:

 usedBackgroundColor

 window

 window: something

set window

 buildViewFor: aBuilder

 buildViewFor: aBuilder in: aWindowOrNil

cg: no menuPanels are not tabable

 fromBuilder: aView components: aListOfComponents

 setupView: aView for: aBuilder

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: aSpecArray

read my attributes from aSpecArray

 literalArrayEncoding

for compatibility: return an order to generate the window-stuff BEFORE the component stuff

 literalArrayEncodingSlotOrder

for compatibility: return an order to generate the window-stuff BEFORE the component stuff

Usage example(s):

super literalArrayEncodingSlotOrder

 do: aBlock

 inspectorExtraMenuOperations

(comment from inherited method)
extra operation-menu entries to be shown in an inspector.
Answers a collection of spec-entries containing:
aString is the label of the menu item.
aBlock is evaluated when the menu item is selected.
[optional] boolean or boolean valueHolder if enabled.
To be redefined in objects which think that it makes sense to offer
often used operations in an inspector's top menu.
See SerialPort, Color or FileStream as examples.

 fromView: aView callBack: aBlock

extract attributes from aView

 isValidSpec

answer true, if this ia a real spec that can be used to build a view

 acceptUISpecVisitor: aVisitor

Double dispatch back to the visitor, passing my type encoded in
the selector (visitor pattern)