Class: PopUpBanner

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • activation & deactivation
  • event handling
  • queries
• Examples

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--GraphicsMedium
      |
      +--DisplaySurface
         |
         +--SimpleView
            |
            +--View
               |
               +--TopView
                  |
                  +--PopUpView
                     |
                     +--PopUpBanner

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Views-Basic

Version:

rev: 1.13 date: 2021/01/20 14:37:29

user: cg

file: PopUpBanner.st directory: libview2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview2

Description:

Shows a banner popUp (splash window);
can be used at startup to make wait-time a bit more interesting.
See use in smalltalk.rc / showBanner.rc / hideBanner.rc.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2000 by eXept Software AG
             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:

 forImage: anImage

Instance protocol:

 open

default for popUpBanners is to come up modeless

 showCentered

 buttonPress: button x: x y: y

destroy view when user clicks into

 grabWhenMapped

Examples:

    |img bannerView|

    img := Image fromFile:'banner1.xpm'.
    bannerView := PopUpBanner forImage:img.
    bannerView showCentered.

    Delay waitForSeconds:2.
    bannerView destroy