Class: ComponentSpec

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• 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: 1.44 date: 2017/11/28 18:21:20

user: cg

file: ComponentSpec.st directory: libui

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libui

Author:

Claus Atzkern

Description:

Not normally used by applications.

Notice: 
    this class was implemented using protocol information
    from alpha testers, literature and by read public domain code
    - it may not be complete or compatible 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.

Related information:

    UIBuilder
    UIPainter

Class protocol:

 channelsEditSpec

 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: something

 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