Class: ResourceRetriever

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • accessing-resources
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • accessing-resource
  • converting
  • testing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--ResourceRetriever

Package:

stx:libview2

Category:

Interface-Support-UI

Version:

rev: 1.22 date: 2023/11/16 14:47:33

user: stefan

file: ResourceRetriever.st directory: libview2

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview2

Description:

ST80 compatibility class.

The class is not completed yet and certainly not bug free.
Also, it is not guaranteed that all winSpecs are understood.

Notice: 
    this class was implemented using protocol information
    from alpha testers, literature and by reading 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.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1997 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:

 findResourceLabel: label in: aResourceOwner

look for a string
in aResourceOwner,
in class of aResourceOwner,
in resources of class of aResourceOwner,
and finally in my label resources

 findResourceLabel: label in: aResourceOwner rememberResourcesIn: aValueHolderOrNil

look for a string
in aResourceOwner,
in class of aResourceOwner,
in resources of class of aResourceOwner,
and finally in my label resources

 labelResources

if not already loaded, get the common label resourcePack and return it

 icon: anIcon

 icon: anIcon string: aLabelOrNil

Instance protocol:

 className

return the value of the instance variable 'className' (automatically generated)

 className: something

set the class which provides the resources

 icon: anIcon string: aLabelOrNil

 labelText

 labelText: aText

 selector

return the value of the instance variable 'selector' (automatically generated)

 selector: something

set the value of the instance variable 'selector' (automatically generated)

 value

returns the value assigned to resource or nil

 findGuiResourcesIn: aResourceContainer

setup the resource owner

 resource

returns a form assigned to resource or nil

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: anArray

read my values from an encoding.

 literalArrayEncoding

encode myself as an array, from which a copy of the receiver can be
reconstructed with #decodeAsLiteralArray.

The encoding is:
(#ResourceRetriever className selector)

or if labelText not nil:
(#ResourceRetriever className selector labelText)

 isDefined

returns true if resource exists

 notDefined

returns true if resource is not defined