Class: ComboBoxSpec

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • image specs
  • interface specs
  • interface-painter
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • building
  • converting
  • parsing a view
  • queries
  • queries-UIDefiner
  • visiting

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--NamedSpec
            |
            +--MenuComponentSpec
               |
               +--InputFieldSpec
                  |
                  +--ComboBoxSpec
                     |
                     +--ComboBoxWithCompletionSpec

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.80 date: 2023/04/03 11:51:07

user: stefan

file: ComboBoxSpec.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) 1996 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.

Class protocol:

 icon

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

Usage example(s):

ImageEditor openOnClass:self andSelector:#icon

 basicsEditSpec

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

Usage example(s):

UIPainter new openOnClass:ComboBoxSpec andSelector:#basicsEditSpec

 menuSubSpec

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

Usage example(s):

UIPainter new openOnClass:ComboBoxSpec andSelector:#menuSubSpec

 addBindingsTo: env for: inst channel: aChannel

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

 commonReplacementClasses

used by the UIPainter's 'replace-by' function

Instance protocol:

 comboList

return the comboList aspect name
which is either the comboList aspect name,
or a constant list to be shown as elements

 comboList: nameOfAspectOrConstantArray

set either the comboList aspect name,
or a constant list to be shown as elements

 comboMenuHolder

 comboMenuHolder: something

 comboMenuPerformer

 comboMenuPerformer: something

 isFilenameBox

 isFilenameBox: aBoolean

 listSelector

 listSelector: something

 resizableMenu

as yet unimplemented

 resizableMenu: something

as yet unimplemented

 type

 type: aSymbol

 useIndex

 useIndex: aBoolean

 defineCallBacksFor: aBuilder view: aView

transform ST-80 Style callBackSpec

 setModelAttributeIn: aView with: aBuilder

set my model attributes to aView (or its model)

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: aSpecArray

read my attributes from aSpecArray

 skippedInLiteralEncoding

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

 fromView: aView callBack: aBlock

extract attributes from aView

 usefulReplacementSpecClassNames

 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

 aspectSelectors

add more aspect selectors (these generate aspect methods in the definer)

 acceptUISpecVisitor: aVisitor

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