Class: SpecCollection

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

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UISpecification
      |
      +--ComponentSpec
         |
         +--SpecCollection

Package:

stx:libui

Category:

Interface-Support-UI-Specs

Version:

rev: 1.30 date: 2024/03/05 07:51:17

user: stefan

file: SpecCollection.st directory: libui

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libui

Description:

Not normally used by applications.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 1995 by Claus Gittinger
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Class protocol:

 supportsSubComponents

answer whether instances of the spec class support sub components

Instance protocol:

 collection

return collection

 collection: something

set collection

 buildSubViewsFor: aBuilder in: aView

can only be nil, if class in a spec is not found.

 buildViewFor: aBuilder in: v

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

 buildViewWithLayoutFor: aBuilder in: aView

redefined to suppress the postCreateView for the specCollection itself
(there is no component for it); instead, it will be called for each individual
component in the specCollection

 fromLiteralArrayEncoding: aSpecArray

read my attributes from aSpecArray

 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

extract attributes from aView

** This is an obsolete interface - do not use it (it may vanish in future versions) **

 fromViews: aCollectionOfViews callBack: aBlock

callers will get irritated, if the number of specs does not match