Class: UISubSpecification

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • interface specs
  • interface-painter
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • building
  • converting
  • private
  • queries
  • visiting

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--UISubSpecification

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.59 date: 2022/03/06 09:19:30

user: cg

file: UISubSpecification.st directory: libui

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libui

Description:

Not normally used by applications.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1997 by eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
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Class protocol:

 basicsEditSpec

This resource specification was automatically generated
by the UIPainter of ST/X.

Usage example(s):

UIPainter new openOnClass:UISubSpecification andSelector:#basicsEditSpec

 detailsEditSpec

This resource specification was automatically generated
by the UIPainter of ST/X.

Usage example(s):

UIPainter new openOnClass:UISubSpecification andSelector:#detailsEditSpec

 addBindingsTo: env for: inst channel: aChannel

add bindings as required to allow the GUI Painter to operate on an instance of me

 slices

return the slices for the attribute sections in the GUI Painter

 supportsSubComponents

answer whether instances of the spec class support sub components

Instance protocol:

 majorKey

get the classname providing the specification;
by default, my class and base classes are searched for the specification

 majorKey: something

set the classname providing the specification;
by default, my class and base classes are searched for the specification

 minorKey

get the selector to be called to access the sub specification

 minorKey: something

set the selector to be called to access the sub specification

 addView: aView toMappingOfBuilder: aBuilder

intentionally left blank - we want the embedded spec to be stored in the mapping for the view;
not my frames-spec

 setAttributesIn: aView with: aBuilder

set my attributes to aView

 setupInitialLayoutFor: aView

 skippedInLiteralEncoding

define the inst-slots which are skipped when generating a literalArrayEncoding;
(to skip the ones with default values.)

 specificationFor: aView with: aBuilder

fetch the subSpecification

 userFriendlyName

answer a good noticeable name of the widget for the GUI Painter and the documentation

 viewClass

return the corresponding view class of the spec

 acceptUISpecVisitor: aVisitor

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