Class: CompositeSpecCollection

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • building
  • converting
  • enumerating
  • parsing a view

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--CompositeSpecCollection

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.13 date: 2023/04/03 11:51:41

user: stefan

file: CompositeSpecCollection.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:

 supportsSubComponents

(comment from inherited method)
answer whether instances of the spec class support sub components

Instance protocol:

 collection

return collection

 collection: something

set collection

 compositeSpec

return compositeSpec

 compositeSpec: something

set compositeSpec

 buildSubViewsFor: aBuilder in: v

 buildViewFor: aBuilder in: v

(comment from inherited method)
create and set attributes.
No need to redefine

 buildViewWithLayoutFor: aBuilder in: v

 createViewFor: aBuilder in: aView

(comment from inherited method)
low level create - no attributes are set.
Can be redefined for special creation (see arbitraryComponentSpec)

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: aSpecArray

initialize my values from a specArray

 literalArrayEncoding

(comment from inherited method)
generate a literalArrayEncoding array for myself.
This uses #literalArrayEncodingSlotOrder which defines the slots and
order and #skippedInLiteralEncoding which defines slots to skip.
For most subclasses, there is no need to redefine those.

 do: aBlock

(comment from inherited method)
evaluate aBlock for me and all of my sub-componen-specs.
To be redefined in specs which have children

 fromView: aView callBack: aBlock

(comment from inherited method)
extract attributes from aView

 fromViews: aCollectionOfViews callBack: aBlock