Class: ComponentSpec

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

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--CompositeSpec
         |
         +--CompositeSpecCollection
         |
         +--DividerSpec
         |
         +--NamedSpec
         |
         +--RegionSpec
         |
         +--SpecCollection
         |
         +--UISubSpecification
         |
         +--ViewWithLabelSpec
         |
         +--ViewWithSubcomponentsSpec
         |
         +--WindowSpec

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.55 date: 2023/04/03 11:51:31

user: stefan

file: ComponentSpec.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

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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:

 channelsEditSpec

(comment from inherited method)
This resource specification was automatically generated
by the UIPainter of ST/X.

 addBindingsTo: env for: anInstance channel: aChannel

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

Instance protocol:

 backgroundImage

 backgroundImage: aspectSelector

 borderWidth

return border width

 borderWidth: aWidth

set border width

 initiallyInvisible

 initiallyInvisible: something

 initiallyVisible

 initiallyVisible: something

 level

attention: returns anIntegerOrNilOrSymbol

 level: anIntegerOrNilOrSymbol

 backgroundChannel

 backgroundChannel: aspectSelector

 foregroundChannel

 foregroundChannel: aspectSelector

 visibilityChannel

 visibilityChannel: aspectSelector

Modified (format): / 17-01-2022 / 12:15:28 / cg

 setAttributesIn: aView with: aBuilder

set my attributes to aView

 setBorderAttributeIn: aView with: aBuilder

set my border attribute to aView

 setChannelsIn: aView with: aBuilder

set channels in aView

 setKeyboardFocusAttributesIn: aView with: aBuilder

helper - common code for InputField and TextEditor

 setLevelAttributeIn: aView with: aBuilder

set my level attribute to aView

 setMenuIn: aView with: aBuilder

generic support here - sigh menuComponent AND label use it,
but do not inherit (should label inherit from menuComponent ?)

 setMenuPerformerIn: aMenu forView: aView with: aBuilder

generic support here - sigh menuComponent AND label use it,
but do not inherit (should label inherit from menuComponent ?)

 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

 aspectSelectors

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

 defaultModelValueFor: someAspect

used by the UIDefiner - return the aspect's default value